A Vision of K-12 Students Today
Nov 14th, 2009 | By Rex Gradeless | Category: Featured, First Year, Law School, Social Media, Web 2.0A Vision of K-12 Students Today. Should be applied to all levels of education.
UPDATE: Was sent this shortly after making this post. Hat Tip: @cfanch
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Now show me a video that shows how chained a teacher is because of the government and school systems. Most teachers are afraid they will be fired for engaging the student, especially in private schools where the funding for the school is the parents, so if the parents dont like something the school is threatened financially, thus the parent determines what they think the child should learn, even though they are not qualified to do so. And this is legal.
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The basic problem with American Education is Europe Japan & China. No not those countries per se, but the fact that we use comparisons with them in determining the success of our education systems. You see we as American’s are very competitive and we like comparisons. What we never seem to notice is that we already lead. We will not be leading for long. We have gone away from producing leaders thinkers and questioners. We produce repeaters.
Most of the great inventions of the 19th and 20th century were born of American thinkers. Many who had no more than a grade school education. Thomas Edison, Robert Fulton, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and the Wright Brothers to name just a few. What each could do was think, question how and why things worked, and had an unflagging belief that they could do anything. Fulton and Edison told teachers that they couldn’t learn the dusty old stuff because they had too many new ideas filling their brains.
I learned in a High School were there was an open classroom. There was no requirement to attend class, but you were responsible for the class work. We were fortunate to have a lot of the most up to date (at the time) technology. A computer (the size of a classroom) a Radio and TV Station, and a Library that rivaled many College Libraries. If you wanted enrichment the school had a daily regime of speakers 3 or more a day from the arts, politics, educators, both the hard and social Sciences. Most students had the opportunity to take an independent study project in their senior year. If a student wanted to walk out of class and go smoke weed, they did. OTOH most of us wanted to go to class and even go to the enrichment programs. We were taught to politely question authority and to always learn what the speaker’s prejudices were. Kids today dare not even think about such a “waste of time” today . Colleges demand AP scores even though they have no intent on granting Credits (after all they lose money then.) Teacher’s teach to a test. Here is a thought for you all: No child left behind, means no child gets ahead either.
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