SharedArea
Building the Library of the Future!
Creating every lesson, on any subject, available forever, in any learning style, completely free, for anyone to use.
SharedArea is an educational charity built to support students and teachers with free lessons and industry led career options.
And we need your help!
We are calling all students, parents, teachers and companies!
There are 8.7 million school children in England
- 4.7 million primary
- 3.3 million secondary
- 580,000 independent
- 130,000 special needs
There are 450,000 school teachers in England
- 250,000 primary
- 200,00 secondary
If each Secondary School Teacher
Uploads 1 video and 1 question
=
200,000 Videos and 200,000 Test Questions
10 GCSEs = around 400 learning requirements
If each teacher spent just one day making and recording one lesson on their specialist subject area, for each of those 400 learning requirements, there would be on average 500 videos/test questions
But we all learn in different ways!
Using Tags we can categorise the videos videos to ensure you find the right learning style for you:
Tags: Fun, exciting, happy, text, talking, animation, pictures... amongst main tags such as:
- Reading
- Watching
- Listening
- Demonstrations
- Through music
- Animations
- Worked examples
- Conversations
- Language
- Dialects
- Infographics
- Metaphors
- And many more ways to learn
With 5.4 million secondary school children who can help to tag lessons:
That is a lot of help to find the right lessons!
Safeguarding Content
Teachers view each others content to guarantee they are Safe For Schools.
Safe For Schools
Content needs to be: True, Non-offensive, Relevant for the level of study.
To ensure this, teachers will check each other's content and verify all of the above before they are released onto the SFS.SharedArea.org website. This guarantees that content is always Safe For Schools (SFS)
How can companies help?
If every company uploaded their job descriptions and vacancies:
We could shape the career choices for not only millions of school children, but also millions of adults looking to re-skill.
As a nation, and maybe internationally, we would be able to:
- See all the employment areas that need qualified staff
- Focus on creating learning resources for these areas to train new people for these jobs
How will it work?
When uploading or watching content you will simply search by subject area!
No longer will you be searching by video titles - which can be extremely misleading!
Choose:
- Level
- Subject
- Topic
Then
- Overview, Tutorial or Test
An Example:
Browse hundreds of videos on your chosen topic which have been rated ond sorted by thousands of teachers and students.
Why Support SharedArea?
- By submitting videos - you could educate millions of people for years to come.
- By rating videos - you would be helping bring the best content to everyone, and in turn, they would find the best content for you!
- By uploading job descriptions and vacancies - you would be helping shape career and training choices for the nation and even the world.
- By donating – You will help build and maintain this site for the benefit of millions in the UK, if not billions of people in the world!
I hope you can see why it is so important for everyone to join in and support SharedArea.
SharedArea is a registered charity. This means that all money raised is put directly into running the charity.
We are run by volunteer trustees who get no financial gain from SharedArea.
Registered Charity number 1179096