How to Lifeschool? - Videos

Story of Usman Riaz

Usman Riaz learned how to play the classical piano when he was six and taught himself to play a variety of instruments using the internet. He was a teenager when he fell in love with the guitar. He lived in Pakistan and wanted to learn how to play the guitar from the best teachers in the world. This is when he started watching guitar lesson videos online.

He started watching videos of some of the people who he admired. One such person was Preston Reed.  He loved watching Preston Reed’s videos. Watching these videos he soon became a guitar maestro himself. He started uploading videos of himself playing the guitar online. He applied for the TED Fellowship and his talk was approved. The TED Conference is a renowned annual Technology, Entertainment and Design event

He got to play with his hero Preston Reed at the TED Conference in California in front of some of the most influential thinkers in the world. It all started with his drive to teach himself his craft watching videos online.

Why use Videos?

How to Lifeschool? - Using Videos to Learn

Using Videos to Learn?

1)  Flipped Classroom – It is pointless doing the same lecture 10,000 times by 10,000 different professors at 10,000 different colleges around the world. It is a colossal waste of time and money. You can rather let one subject expert do a high quality, high visual, high intensity talk and then upload the video of this talk online. This should be available for students all around the world. Personally I knew I could not change the system but I could change the way I reacted to this issue. So I developed a flipped classroom learning model. For my subjects at college, I would watch the best lectures and talks related to my subject, available online and then come to class with my questions ready for discussion. I would also use class time to complete projects and assignments. This helped me understand the subject matter so much better though I had to maneuver through the system.