Comments on: Education Today and Tomorrow

By: horforiaz

horforiaz — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

No kid can be TOO familiar with technology. The internet IS the new “real world”. There are jobs that will exist and be in demand that will need today’s students to be able to learn and multitask enough to use new tech and learn the normal stuff at the same time. combining technology and academic subjects is a way to help students to get used to being more fluid in a moving world.

By: horforiaz

horforiaz — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

the problem with that is that in the last 28 years, a lot of information has changed. new things have been discovered. old things have been proven to be wrong. old things that people thought were wrong and stupid, have been proven correct, and reliable.

a 28 year old history book wont tell you about the war in Iraq, 28 year old math book wont tell you how to multiply by 9 using only your fingers, 28 year old science book will tell you that there are only 9 planets in our solar system.

By: Prossouw

Prossouw — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

visual allusions repeated ad nauseum

By: Glasya666

Glasya666 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

>> “a 28 year old history book wont tell you about the war in Iraq”

This would not matter if you were teaching about the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, the industrial revolution, … If you going to teach modern history you would need a recent book. Otherwise, it wouldn’t matter.

>> “28 year old math book wont tell you how to multiply by 9 using only your fingers”

They might or might not. Who cares. That’s a trivial “trick” that a teacher could explain in 5 minutes, with or without a book.

By: Reido2828

Reido2828 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

Funny thing is I almost got fired for mis counting. Fuck cashiering. Its not real mathematic’s

By: skeletonmom

skeletonmom — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

Can we teach the kids who work the cash registers to at least be able to count back change? So much easier than picking up the calculator and punching in the numbers to see what they need to give me back.

Hope its just me being nitpicky, but simple skills like this-we still need to teach them. Good to know more than one way to solve a problem…

By: louielamson2000

louielamson2000 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

EDUCATION TODAY FOR TOMORROW. Learning, reading, studies and PRACTICE is for life
I think government need investment, and help for Students in the long term

By: SYoungteach

SYoungteach — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

I like what you guys are doing there! Awesome videos.

By: aYwaaGroup

aYwaaGroup — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

Student Talk website is good for students socializing

By: youresomellow

youresomellow — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:17:24 +0000

Hahaha! I watched this video today at a leadership forum in TASMANIA There was this amazing guy there too so I never really watched this properly .. oops