A Vision of K-12 Students Today

This video made me dizzy.

Okay, 1st off ,the students in China RESPECT their teachers, value education, and are more physically active than US students, so it stands to reason that they would achieve more. Additionally, with the economy going into the toilet thanks to the new administration, where will you get the money to get all schools wired for " 21st Century students"?

Looks to me like they should toss in about 5 hours per week for exercise!

Now this is the other side of the story The flip side of the coin . Where is corporate america? Investing in their own futures---they need technology to succeed, so why can't they see the schools need after they have succeeded? Someone invested in them --- when you do something good--you get 3X the return. This is written in the oldest ext book in the world.

So TRUE. Studetns have enabled themselves technically so put the conventional together with the technology and you have success! You have to be using a cognitive asset to be doing this! Students are very creative--they understand but need to show how they understand in their way---song, dance, drawing, coventionally or technically. The real world today will be tomorrows history. How will we be viewed in 100 years?

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Youre an idiot. its true that students need to learn technology to keep up with society, but if they dont even try to comprehend it for LIVING PURPOSES, whats the use?

America's so behind everybody now...

And our school just got over one thousand "SMARTboards." "SMART" as in a big white board in front of the room connected to a computer. Half the teachers have trouble using it, and we spend more time in class trying to figure out what button does what than actually concentrating on the real work.

It does amuse me to know that China will be the largest English-speaking country though. XD

The teachers need to be educated about the Smartboards. This should happen twice a year. If not, once. If not, then you have some bad teachers.

They are educated; every single one of them got training lessons because we just got the boards last year. Unfortunately, half of them does not understand technology, and since there's no more chalkboard spaces left, of course the students took time in class explaining the whole deal to them.