Games! Games!

In the online world, educators are waging a competition - competition against violent computer games, competition against inappropriate videos and pictures, competition against the time and attention of learners everywhere. Who wins this competition? Observe your kids', students', or even your own online activities and you'll get your answer. How much of our time online can we consider a time well spent?

If we look at our preoccupation online, we can observe something: we gravitate towards websites that are fun. That's why we linger on Facebook and its online game applications, right?

What if we can divert this attention to something that is more worthwhile? What if we can get the students glued to online games that, in the long run, would make them love learning and appreciate the world around them? We can do that. How? By providing options.

Here's an option that I hope you would spread around: http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/ . These games are to make the players understand the principles of the Nobel-awarded achievements. Here, you can play games that make you understand blood matching in blood transfusion, you can take care of a diabetic dog, you can play the DNA-double helix game, and a lot more.

Try and learn. And spread the word.

Why do parents have tutorials for their kids?

Why do parents have tutorials for their kids?

1. They don't have time to sit down for one or two hours to discuss school lessons.
2. The lessons are hard, especially high school topics. It requires a lot of effort to refresh on those subjects to teach the kids.
3. No time.
4. There's little time.
5. And they have money to spend.
6. And they want some expertise on the subjects discussed in school--either in reviewing or in having advanced lessons.

There you go. Parents work hard at the office, and it's pretty tiring to start thinking again once they get home. About physics formulas, trigonometric functions, vocabulary words. What they can do is call on a tutor to help their kids understand the lessons and have higher grades because that teaching stuff is just not cut out for them.

For first-borns, parents generally still have the enthusiasm for acting as home tutors. But by the time the 3rd one comes along, they've been there, done that. This time around it can be the tutor who can experience the whole studying-for-exams, making-projects thing.

This is when tutorial centers come in.

Pisara tutors know all about it. Their ultimate goals?

1) Make the grades go up.
2) Instill proper study habits
3) Inspire the tutees to really learn, be it through focusing on favorite subjects, or explaining the reason why their hatest subject is important in their lives, or just having an enjoyable time studying that the kid will want to have tutorials even more.

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Math/ Science/ English Tutorials. It's better than watching TV.