Re: An Open Letter to Educators

[IrishLincoln]

@BallsOfPrime

It's mimicking, but you'll be okay.

[sweetkellygirl]

@BallsOfPrime I'm tipsy in all of my videos. Obviously.

[skinnywhop87]

I agree with you totally.. One other point on that I would add is it also goes back to the home life if the child will be interested in their education or not.

I noticed when i was in school, the materialistic spoiled kids would usually have the lowest grades and the least interest in learning. That's because their parents teach them to focus on themselves rather then the group at large. I believe part of the problem with the educational system goes back to the parents, they need to be involved

[sweetkellygirl]

This is such an excellent point! The problem with laws like NCLB is that it places all the responsibility for outcomes on teachers. Education begins at home and should be a collaboration between home-school-community. The family is the first and most important teacher because they are the constant in the child's life. Teachers change every year so families should consider themselves to be players, not spectators!

[hoard88]

Absolutely amazing video. Loved every second of it! :D

[sweetkellygirl]

Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it! I've gotten a pretty good response to this video... I do wonder what part of it causes people to like it though. Your thoughts?

[FixedByDoc]

@sweetkellygirl it's your quite and polite tone and your beautiful face. Also you make some valid points without getting irrational.

[sweetkellygirl]

Thank you for the feedback... and compliment! :)

[ShiaSpirit]

The opening, the value of information will never change. However, the price might. It's easier to attain this information, but the value will always be the same.

Don't mix value with price.

[sweetkellygirl]

I definitely see where you are coming from. I can see how Dan's point might get lost because of his word choice. I don't think he means information is more or less valid or worthwhile according to its availability. I think he is pointing out that "owning" information is less of an indicator of wealth than it had been in the past. Information is becoming property of the human "collective" instead of the chosen wealthy few.

I hopes this clears my position up a bit.

[FixedByDoc]

I think your to nice to this Dan guy. LOL. 5/5 for doing it in a polite way and for being an educator.

[sweetkellygirl]

Haha, you actually made me laugh out loud. Thanks for the support! :)

[itowedin]

Great points and well articulated.

[sweetkellygirl]

Thank you so much!  I was afraid I might be rambling... *blush*

[diogo86]

You made some great points, congrats ;)

[sweetkellygirl]

Thank you so much... I had to edit a lot out of my video to keep it reasonably short. ;) I could talk forever about education.

P.S. Como você encontrar o meu vídeo? Tenho notado que o visionamento deste vídeo de repente é muito elevado no Brasil. Eu só estou curiosa! :)

[Merimi]

I think schools should stay as they are in countries with less access to the internet, but I think schools in countries with a good access to the internet (the information source he was mostly talking about) and able to understand the most popular language on the internet (English) needs a slightly different education system.

I'm currently 13 years old and I am in the second term of the 7th grade in Sweden and I feel that the majority of the things I "learn" in school is unnessecary.

[sweetkellygirl]

@Merimi Why do you think some countries' schools should stay as they are and not others? All of us have room for growth and when we get new information, we should apply it to our lives. If we learn that one form of education (or anything else) is negative or unproductive, we should seek out the reasons why it is not work and try to improve it.

Have you been in Sweden your whole life?What are some of the of things that you "learn" in school right now? It's been a long time since I was 13. ;)

[moonandback2]

SO true! i live in argentina, and many people here don´t have access to information, computers or even electricity.. it´s very complicated.. i can´t understand why some people who are prepared to find the solutions to this situation still get paid when they are obviously NOT DOING THEIR JOBS..

however, i feel great because in my country the best university is free

great video!

[sweetkellygirl]

@moonandback2 I think this is such an important point. Access to education should now be a basic human right because it is so obvious how lack of access to resources and information separates the haves from the have-nots. I'm guessing the people paid to search for the solution are doing a lot of talking and not a lot of action. Families, educators and students have to work together to solve this. Bureaucrats are not the ones who have to live with the effects of their decisions about education.

[therealCiCa]

You must be a great teacher. I wish I was 4/5 years old. :)

[sweetkellygirl]

@therealCiCa Thank you, I'm working on it!

[triplm51545]

good points but I believe dan's focus was more on the institutional structures of after high school. those that pay for the kind of services that such institutions provide aren't in such poverty stricken circumstances.

everything till grade 10 or so is for the most part a necessary building block in the structure of ones education

I think art, math, and science should be more of the center of an education as they hit upon the creative, logical, and experimental ways of thinking

[sweetkellygirl]

@triplm51545 That true, Dan was focusing on higher education, which is why I pointed out that the problem starts way before then and that even young children and teens deserve more authentic learning experiences.

I agree that the more abstract ways of thinking should be the centerpiece of education. What better way to teach language and math than through science and the arts? Compartmentalizing subjects is misleading because the world does not operate that way... everything is connected!

[xkaitbabex]

you must be a very good teacher :)

[sweetkellygirl]

@xkaitbabex Thank you, I'm always working towards that!

[yokobus]

very stimulating and intellectual thank you, I would value our societies educational systems more highly if more of them thought like you do.

[sweetkellygirl]

@yokobus Thank you so much! I think part of the problem is that the system makes teachers jaded very quickly, and then they leave.

[BiggyCharlie]

Very constructive, I will look foward his respond :)

[sweetkellygirl]

@BiggyCharlie I wish he would have responded... :( I'm guessing that if he hasn't by now, he's not going to.

[BiggyCharlie]

Yesn he certainly got overwhelm :P

[sweetkellygirl]

I'm thinking the fact that my video was 7 minutes long didn't help me much! :(

[BiggyCharlie]

Bah it was a nice 7 mins so at least for one viewer, it wasn't a waste ;)

[sweetkellygirl]

Well, thank you BiggyCharlie!

[TheStumpie2]

great video((smiles))

[sweetkellygirl]

@TheStumpie2 Thank you! A little long... but I edited quite a bit out to get it to 7 minutes!