{"id":87810,"date":"2019-02-16T03:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/bill-gates-textbooks-are-becoming-obsolete-heres-the-best-way-to-learn-today"},"modified":"2019-02-16T03:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T11:02:22","slug":"bill-gates-textbooks-are-becoming-obsolete-heres-the-best-way-to-learn-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/bill-gates-textbooks-are-becoming-obsolete-heres-the-best-way-to-learn-today","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: Textbooks are \u2018becoming obsolete\u2019\u2014 here\u2019s the best way to learn today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-textbooks-are-becoming-obsolete-heres-the-best-way-to-learn-today2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read more than my share of textbooks,\u201d Gates says. \u201cBut it\u2019s a pretty limited way to learn something. Even the best text can\u2019t figure out which concepts you understand and which ones you need more help with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Software can be used to create a much more dynamic learning experience, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Gates gives the example of learning algebra. \u201cInstead of just reading a chapter on solving equations, you can look at the text online, watch a super-engaging video that shows you how it\u2019s done, and play a game that reinforces the concepts,\u201d he writes. \u201cThen you solve a few problems online, and the software creates new quiz questions to zero in on the ideas you\u2019re not quite getting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/12\/bill-gates-the-best-way-to-learn-today-is-not-from-textbooks.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/12\/bill-gates-the-best-way-to-l...books.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI read more than my share of textbooks,\u201d Gates says. \u201cBut it\u2019s a pretty limited way to learn something. Even the best text can\u2019t figure out which concepts you understand and which ones you need more help with.\u201d Software can be used to create a much more dynamic learning experience, he says. Gates gives the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}