Beackman's World
An incredible educational tool.
This show remains one of my favorites, not just because of melancholy, also for the incredible information that they taught us at the age in which we were looking for answers.This is the most interesting educational children's television show i ever seen. It was easy for them to get our attention because they were always solving doubts through experiments, and the way that they gave the information it was pretty creative.
One of the things that i learned and that i will never forget, is to know how many kilometers did a lighting fall, they said that, as light travels faster than sound, you will see first than you'll listen to it, so, as fast as you see the lighting you start counting and when you hear the thunder you stop, the number that you achieved is directly proportional to the number of kilometers that the lighting is far away. So every time i see a lighting i cant avoid the need to count to know the distance :).
This fact is for us, educational psychology students, very valuable because we are studying that meaningful learning is our goal, this is the only way that a knowledge will be useful in the future for our students. Actually, Sofia and i used some of beackaman's videos as tool for one of our class practices. The topic was Reflection and Refraction of light, we were so worried about how could we explain it to the kids, how could we give them this complicated information for them to understand it. So we decided to use beackman's world, we gave an introduction, made some reflective questions to make them construct a first step definition and then we saw the video, the result was amazing, we even didnt have the need to explain deeply the definitions, we only asked them to realize if they understand, and then we tell them why the information was necessary and useful for. Then we made some experiments and it was all done! They completly understand and actually they were having fun!!
In summary, Beackman's world was an incredible educational show, that truly let something on children.
I wonder why dont we have more tv shows as good as this was?...
I liked hearing about this show in your conference :)
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