Useful Learning Tools for You

Hello Teens,

I'll start first by saying "Happy Holidays!!!" This is that time of the year when we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. This is also the time of the year we spend with friends, family, loved ones and all. This is that time of the year when there's a lot to do. There are a lot of places to visit. Oh, and of course, lots of food!
However, there's this thing I learnt while in high school. It's the 'LearnWOW' (I just coined that word up though). It's an acronym for "Learn When Others Won't". This principle entails going into intense studying during the periods that most people won't - take Christmas for an example. Applying this into my learning habit always seemed to give me an edge in certain areas of my academic work. However, one regret I have is not having access to e-learning tools during my high school days. I was only aware of printed textbooks - sad right? I just got informed of several e-learning platforms a couple of months ago just after I graduated from high school. I wished - and I still wish - I could retrace my steps to those days and  make use of those tools to facilitate my learning. But wishes aren't horses.
For that reason, I've decided to let you know about these tools before you leave high school or even before you enter high school.
One thing you'll need to fully enjoy the vast opportunities of learning these tools have to offer is: discipline. All of these tools leverage electronic media. This implies that they'll be used on your phones, tablets, ipads, or PCs. There are lot of other fun things to do on the web like viewing some of the latest videos on YouTube, chatting up with some homies and the list goes on and on and on and on and on...and on. You would need to discipline yourself to focus on the learning material and not on anything else.

Note: The following learning tools are useful to students in high school as well as those in college or some other kind of university.

1. Lumosity 


Lumosity is an online website (also an app) that develops your mental skills through a series of games. These games were built by some of the most experienced neuroscientists and researchers in the fields of human psychology and cognition. The games test and improve your memory, concentration, attention, flexibility, speed of processing and problem solving.
<<Click here to visit Lumosity>>


2. Khan Academy


Khan academy is a non-profit organization which was founded by Salman Khan in 2006 to provide world-class education to everybody, anywhere in the world. There are several courses you can take: mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, music, computer science, computer programming, healthcare, medicine, finance, cosmology. The lectures are usually in form of interactive videos which is used to explain tough concepts as simply as possible. Khan Academy has helped lot of teenagers all over the world, you could be one of them. Oh.. I almost forgot, everything is free on Khan Academy.
<<Click here to visit Khan Academy>>


3. Coursera 

Coursera is a for-profits educational organisation which works with some of the best universities and organisations in to world to provide mass open online courses (MOOCs). Some of the universities that offer free online courses on Coursera include: Stanford University, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Princeton University and so on. Courses are offered in mathematics, business, computer science, medicine, humanities, engineering, physics and so on. Coursera is useful for both high school students and college students.
<<Click here to visit Coursera>>


4. edX

edX is an educational platform set up by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to provide quality free educational materials to students all over the world. edX currently offers over 500 courses online (theres sooo much to learn!!!). Various educational institutions have already partnered up with edX to provide their standard of education to the rest of the world. Several classes in some parts of the world take place by streaming certain videos from edX (that shows you how good it is).
<<Click here to visit edX>>