The Future of Education
An Invention with a Great Educational Potential
Ioan Grosu, Apollonia University (Romania)
Abstract
Today every country pays an increased attention to Education as a reliable source of progress. European Union released on Nov. 20th , 2012 a document RETHINKING EDUCATION [1] to push Education in direction of improving skills in order to lower the unemployment rate among young people.
Recently we heard several complaints from primary school teachers concerning the elementary skills of their school children. Just clicking with the mouse or touching screens is not enough for a balanced , healthy activity of school children. A book develops this topic [2].
In this communication we suggest an idea which can help to manage these difficulties. It is about a toy and a didactic device invented in Romania [3] and produced by REKUBUS in Germany [4] under the commercial name TOP-SPEEDY.
Spinning Top is an old and much beloved toy[5]. The new Spinning Top is controllable [6] and magic, educative, interactive, scientific and helps to improve patience, perseverance, coordination hand-eye, patience. In addition it is useful to increase the self-confidence of girls to study natural sciences and engineerings[7].
