1.
The act of learning through a medium that both educates and
entertains.
2.
Any of various media, such as computer software, that educate and
entertain.
Educational entertainment is any entertainment content that is designed to educate as well as to amuse. Content with a high
degree of both educational and entertainment value is known as edutainment.
There also exists content that is primarily educational but has incidental
entertainment value. Finally, there is content that is mostly entertaining but
can be seen to have some educational value.
Edutainment is
a form of education which is designed to be entertaining, in order to keep
people interested and engaged. A wide variety of formats can be used to
present edutainment, ranging from books to guided tours of zoological
parks, and this particular branch of the education world is also extremely
profitable. Numerous companies make very large sums of money producing
educational materials with an entertaining twist, and in some regions of the
world, the rise of edutainment has been criticized by people who fear
that it sometimes focuses more on amusing people than teaching them.
The basic concept of edutainment is
quite old, although the word, a portmanteau of “education” and
“entertainment” was coined in the early 1990s. Many children's books in the
19th century were prime examples of edutainment, with readers being drawn
in by colorful scenes which were used to teach them letters of the alphabet and
words. Children's books were also used as vehicles for moral and social
lessons, as in the case of books which encouraged children to share, or stories
about children who failed to heed warnings and ended up in trouble. In the
1990s, however, the edutainment industry exploded, and became much
more diverse.
In addition to books, edutainment can
also appear in the form of board games, television shows, movies, class
activities, video games, and in other formats. Edutainment may also
take the form of a trip to a zoo, museum, playground, park, or similar
location, in which students are educated about the place they are visited while
being entertained by the sights. Edutainment products
have also been aimed at people beyond school age: entertaining educational
posters about diseases, for example, are posted in many doctor's offices to
teach people about common diseases and methods which can be used to prevent
them.
The goal of an edutainment product or
experience is to provide some valuable knowledge to the consumer by keeping him
or her engaged with entertaining material. People who argue in favor
of edutainment suggest that when educational material is presented in
a dry way, people tend to tune out, and they do not actually absorb the
material or the lesson. For example, people are usually more interested by a
brightly colored pamphlet than they are by a single sheet covered in densely
written text.
However,
some educators have suggested that edutainment may cross a line at
times. When material is more amusing than it is educational, students can lose
out. The focus on providing entertainment foremost is also viewed as
problematical in some communities, with critics suggesting that people may not
be able to focus on less dynamic presentations of material because they have
been deluged in edutainment. In other words, some critics think that edutainment has created its own
market by training people to look for amusement before they seek out knowledge.
The most Effective Edutainment source is
through Art / Drawing
1, why Art / Drawing for edutainment?
i will explain this concept taking you yes you i
mean to say the reader as you are already experienced it but you
have never think or gone deep ,
Because the very first thing any person learns
from art / Art of Body Action.
very soon i will make you learn
or understand.
2, How mandatory Art /
Drawing for edutainment?
You might have notice that when you were a kid or
a primary student .how you were got trained by teacher. Just close
your eyes and recall those days. how you were ask to see /or do when you are
learning Nursery Rhymes for example recall twinkle Twinkle little
star ........,suddenly you find /come across of the dream view experience the
same teacher in front of you doing an action by lifting two hands and
showing how the stars twinkle /shine. by raising two hands up in the
air & showing the blinking experience by using fingers
i hope you got the answer for Art of Body Action
you might also notice that why i had the word
"ART" i want to explain this thing with the teacher the action
teacher uses to make a student recall write English alphabet showing
or stroke in the air ,
3, How it plays the Crucial role. For edutainment?
But here i want to show you one more thing. Experience
the same concept, question your self what is your age here you might think
quite frisky .don't worry the answer to this question is with you soon .an
from your self. The answer is ............you still remember this rhyme till
today my research result shows that more than 99% student remembers
this even in there high school....
4, why People ignoring or less bother Art / drawing
concept .what
hat is the result?
in modern days the study materials for
kid are made so attractive by audio visual learning or in printed form
but they are loosing the
main concept what they learn what it mean
and the sane got continued till today ...and goes
on ....
An one more thing i want to tell you that you
might have notice students / people they own highly qualified
degrees but sounds less knowledge over the subject.
the best example i will explain you that .you and
any person can remember an TV ad because you might come across it many times
and you remember it weather the ad is in your known language or not . What you
remember is ' just to express as record’ not as by what is the meaning ...
the best well witness example which the
whole world had witnessed is in the INDIAN TV serial Named
in ENGLISH it mean
"Did you pass class 5" ?
where teachers who had
highly experience in the teaching field or own a good numbers
of school in national lave /inter national level cant able to compete
there own student the very interesting thing is that all question raised on
them is from the syllabus books under grade/class 5 or less
many well known famous peoples, politicians
, film stars etc... are also took part as contestant
too
so many of us feel us ashamed of our self
that we send our students to schools who cant able to face/answer the questions from
the syllabus books under grade/class 5 or less
an very soon i will publish more content on
concept of education
one thing i want to say the world every second of time we spend
will sow the seed to eat the the future seconds of time in our life. So try
best to absorb more knowledge if any knowledge material eats
our time
This will make us in increase more knowledge which
is more valuable than any thing in this world
