I really liked the video A Vision of K-12 Students Today. It was upbeat and straight to the reality of our students today. Technology is going to be a huge factor and all computer jobs are going to increase. However, teachers are not doing enough in the classroom using or teaching technology. Most teachers have not used a type of blogging system, meaning their students have not either. Being a new blogger, I know that this is true and blogging can have a lot of positive benefits.
This most shocking statistics I saw was where the USA was ranked in the different subjects. Places like Finland are ranked high in most subjects. How Finland approaches school is completely different than how we do school in the USA. Teachers are very respected and ranked among or ahead of jobs like doctors and lawyers. Students go to school year round' and have shorter days. Classroom sizes are very small and there are many teachers in each class. With how USA is ranked, it makes me wonder if what we are doing in our school systems is holding our students back from their full potential.
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