Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Seeing IS believing

We've all heard it a million times right since we were kids; seeing is believing. Right from the time we were a year old, we learned things by seeing. As we grew a little older, we started to learn by listening.

Then in school, we began to learn how to read. The first thing we were taught to read was a unfamiliar triangular shape object by visually associating it with round red fruit (A for Apple). We further strengthened our reading skills by using our already developed "listening" skills, using phonetics, rhymes and other such devices.

Clearly, its clear that seeing was our first language, listening our second, and reading our third.

By age six, we started to rely more and more on learning by reading, with less and less emphasis on seeing and listening. As we have grown older, things have only become harder.

But why have things become harder? Shouldn't things have become easier as we became older and smarter?

It was this simple concept of learning through "seeing" and "listening" that prompted us to develop eVideo for standard 10 students. eVideo has explanations & animations, and is simple, easy and fast. The goal was simple: to help students to "understand twice as much, in half the time".

Whether eVideo succeeds in its goal, only time will tell. Either way, we hope every school student tries it out to see if eVideo works for them.