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Goerudio

Latvian Education foundation

European

No

Chemistry, Maths, Physics, Biology

Latvian, English

Teachers, Students

Teachers, professors and other participants of Latvian educational system already for a longer time were discussing a serious problem - necessity to introduce new, innovative methods in attainment of study material, as the main problem was continuing cramming or reproduction of given material instead of understanding its content.
By applying some of inductive approach theories were worked out know-how; that allowed reaching systematic, methodical development of models. That enabled provision of teachers' trainings and with development of Internet also dynamic involvement of audience. Audience developed acceptable - comprehensible models that were later checked by administrators to ensure correct interpretation of material.
LIF invitation was accepted by one of the most prestige schools of Latvia - Riga English Grammar School; that was ready to engage in building learning tool for hard sciences of secondary school.
LIF provided trainings of selected teachers and gave them administrator rights, guided by these teachers some most talented students built first www.goerudio.com models to start development of web as well as selected the design and navigation tools. It appeared that students perform this kind of tasks in high quality. Next step was creating teacher and student interest; that was successfully stimulated by sponsors organized competitions.
The system's active usage was started and is still continued by Riga Distance Learning Secondary School and many other schools. Learning tool http://www.goerudio.com is free of charge available for all the potential users. Important additional incentive to continue the project was given by "Education Innovation award" for best innovation in maths, biology, physics, chemistry of year 2011 received in State competition. The diploma signed by own-hand of President of the Republic of Latvia is pride of Riga English Grammar School. The successful beginning of the project as well as wide audience of users gave LIF inspiration to continue spreading this method and tool in other countries and audiences.
For more information it is possible to download the presentations of the methodology:
- Goerudio Approach
http://goerudio.pixel-online.org/files/Goerudio_Approach.pdf
- Goerudio Comprehension Models
http://goerudio.pixel-online.org/files/Goerudio_Comprehension_Models.pdf

Learning tool http://www.goerudio.com is free of charge available for all the potential users.
Comprehension is essential in almost of any subject taught: sciences, mathematics, law and many others. Latvian Education Fund's supported goerudio.com comprehension tool has proved itself in Latvia and we wish to expand its use around the world.

A new, innovative approach to learning, creating persistent knowledge in the development of creativity and motivation to learn science subjects with interest. Modern learning typical trend is an excess of information selection and revision. To perform this task, the student must understand what to look for, what to select. If a student does not understand who to focus on, it is difficult to obtain knowledge, and are mostly lost the motivation to learn.
Using the understanding of patterns of a methodology based on events or perceptions of the child's experience with him to understand things, you can create an understanding of complex processes and concepts. In addition, this work is done by the student himself - creating awareness model, thus contributing to the sustainable development of knowledge. It is often necessary to make a theme of repetition, then it may be useful for understanding the established models that are freely available for any internetvietnē goerudio.com. Also, teachers can be successfully used his hour presentation topics as illustration or as a motivation for a new awareness in model building.
Raising models methodology is universal access to sustainable knowledge creation. Achieving sustainable knowledge in the modern overwhelmed already become a serious problem for the learner practice.

This approach provides the student himself to learn and to search for information and create models. Consequently, it contributes to the understanding of complex topics.