What is Tearn?

TEARN bridges teach and learn with automated learning activities. Tearn activities include:

Printable worksheets

Online games

Learning games

In minutes, your lessons become hundreds of engaging printables, online games, and learning games. Learners play for hours to learn.

Parents motivate their children to do homework. Volunteers guide after-school activities for learning and fund-raising. Tutors provide one-on-one service to learners. Members and website affiliates share knowledge among the teaching community.

Save hundreds of thousands on programming costs and man-years of development time.

Learn more using the TEARN FAQ.

Online Learning in 3 Easy Steps

• Create a workshop

Supply a unique alias and password to create a workshop. There is a low annual fee. Qualified professionals can apply for a free workshop.

• Create lessons

Hundreds of templates simplify lesson planning. Each lesson immediately becomes hundreds of games, printables, and learning games.

• Share

Donate knowledge to the teaching community; collate lessons into courses and enroll students for profit; or raise funds as a PTA or other association volunteer.

• Create Your Workshop, Now.

Tearn Workshops for Profit

Use TEARN to offer learning services using the Internet.

• Automate hundreds of engaging, learning activities from simple lessons.
• Sequence lessons into full courses with thousands of learning activities.
• Offer your course to your community, school, daycare, church, association, or online.

Tearn makes it simple.

• Create Your Workshop.

Who Uses Tearn?

Parents

• Parents turn homework into online games, or assign extra lessons to reinforce specific needs. It's the easy way to turn a learning challenge into positive fun.

Tutors & Teachers

• Tutors create branded courses; and extend services with hours of home-based activities - all for less than the cost of xeroxing. Remote tutoring extends a tutor's global brand.

PTA & Other Volunteers

• Volunteers create after-school programs to allow their schools to add extra services and raise badly-needed funds.

Websites

• The web sites of magazines, book publishers, corporate affiliates, learning centers, daycare, and children sites can easily add thousands of relevant, learning activities - saving millions and years of development time.

Learners

• Children play to learn. Tearn engages learners without effort.

Forum: Parenting

Parenting is Tearn's discussion forum for care of minors. Topics include motivating learning, monitoring TV time, paying allowances, controlling swear words, and more...

Forum: Teaching

Teaching Forum allows teachers and tutors to discuss methods to teach and learn, do course planning, assess students, and satisfy regulatory requirements.

TEARN FAQ

Q: Is TEARN a word?

A: TEARN is a new word derived from teach and learn. It is also an infrequently used name in England. Most often, online documents mistype 'team' as 'tearn'.

Q: Does TEARN offer courses and lessons?

A: Unlike thousands of sites that offer their courses, TEARN enables parents, tutors, and teachers to create lessons and courses that include online games and worksheets. TEARN offers the courses and lessons from its members.

Those thousands of sites can save millions on the maintenance costs of their learning centers using TEARN.

Q: Does TEARN provide proven learning plans?

A: The worksheet styles provided by TEARN include the best of global methods that have educated billions of children world-wide.

Online games clearly engage learners for hours. Thus, TEARN inspires children to learn.

The lessons and courses are provided by members. Members are qualified professionals who know state requirements, developmental needs by age and pace, and special subjects. These professionals are proven and teach everyday. TEARN inspires their teaching options to bridge the learning gap.

Q: What kinds of lessons are available at TEARN?

A: All types of lessons are available. TEARN provides a platform to support any subject or learning level. Members with content expertise supply the lessons for users.

Q: How is TEARN different?

A: TEARN is not a new way to learn. TEARN automates the creation of proven learning activities like worksheets, online games, and learning games - saving man years.

Metaphorically, milk is a proven agent for promoting growth. The TEARN invention for automating learning activities is like an invention that reduces the cost of producing milk by ten fold. Thus, milk would cost $0.25 per gallon. The invention does not change milk as an effective element for promoting growth.

The industrial, computer, and Internet revolutions have shown that automation successfully replaces manual labor. Using unique technology that leverages each lesson into hundreds of learning activities, TEARN accomodates millions of learning activities -- to exceed the inventory of the largest book publishers. Manual efforts by publishers and webmasters to create and maintain their learning centers page-by-page -- simply cannot compete with automated methods.

Publishers and webmasters are welcome to join TEARN to revolutionize learning activities.

Q: What learning methods are supported?

A: Howard Gardner from Harvard University, in his Multiple Intelligences thesis, defines eight classes of learners. Other educational researchers have expanded the classification to show dozens of ways that people learn. Every learner has the ability to learn, and responds to methods that match their abilities.

TEARN enables dozens of learning methods to match the needs of each learner. We believe that rich, one-on-one choice will enable more learners to discover their full potential.

Q: Who invented TEARN?

A: The inventor prefers to stay private. He is a founder and funder of TEARN. His prior inventions include the ground-breaking spreadsheet in 1977 that has become a standard tool for all computer users. He is an early pioneer in Artificial Intelligence from MIT. He has over 35 years experience starting and running technology companies.

This founder is motivated to improve learning for his three minors; and hundreds of children who he has coached.

Join us to inspire teaching and learning.