Television – Can it be the next BEST School in the world
// April 5th, 2009 // 3 Comments » // Education, Fun Skool TV, School Management System
The Fun Skool Channel
A SOLUTION to How to deliver mass education to the world.
Pakistan:
Pakistan a country of 160 Million with only 25% of it which can read and write.
Problem:
In Pakistan there are over 200,000 school’s of govt of Pakistan that have bad or no teachers.
Those which have teachers, are teachers that are from the local area’s with bad quality of education with themselves also.
Possible Technologies for mass education:
Internet: Internet is a great medium however it is still very expencive and does not reach most of the country.
Television: A Set top box, tv, a small generator or UPS , the entire bundle will cost 125$US per School, to set it up, where the system can then assist the available teacher with good quality of programming, for the students to study Maths, Science, Languages.
It is the cheapest way to deliver high quality low cost education, without going though a massive expencive teachers training program.
200,000 schools will only cost a mere 2 million Dollars to fund.
A TV Channel cost’s less than 200,000$US a year to run with all expences covered.
Past Exerpeinces:
For many years, the virtual university channels were setup to give higher education to the masses are there, but the quality of the programming they deliver is not at par to attract serious audience, and being a govt funded non commercial project, the quality of programming is very boring.
Thinking out of the box:
An Education channel deliverying quality of programming that can attract commercial companies to advertise on it, due to the quality of the programming it will deliver.
Examples:
We have commercial channels like wikid, Cartoon Network, National Geograhic, Discovery, History Channel.
All these channels deliver programming that is high in quality, thus it create’s audience which gives confidence to the commercial companies to advertise on these channels.
Examples of programs:
Programs that can be made by the commercial channels can be.
Lets Learn English
Lets Improve our English
Lets Learn Math’s
Lets learn Urdu
Lets Learn how to ?
a. Make a tv program
b. fix a mobile phone
c. Fix a computer
d. Fix a car
e. Fix an air conditioner
These programs can be made in a way where the viewer can later on actually go and give exam and try to pass the exam based on what he earned from these channels.
I think the National Geographic and Discovery and history channels are already playing their part in the rest of the general education for the masses, however bringing about programs for general masses will help our education a LOT.
Most people claim that education is the biggest problem of this country, and we need to think out of the box in order to solve it.
