Learning to Change-Changing to Learn

I agree pretty much withe the statement 4:05 to 4:30.

I think Government, City-Council, Schools Broads, Schools Principals, [PTA-Parents-Teachers-Associat ions] As well as Corporations-Business Partners, all shall works together coincidence, to make good plans and the directions, for what is good Education for the future of American children..? Yet, I agreed with @staciejacobsen ."Not everything can be learned in school, but spelling can". A Vision of K-12 Students Today it is very important

All true what they say. But there are some 20th century skills we probably don't want to lose (handwriting, doing math without a calculator, basic understanding of how to structure a sentence, spelling, etc.) I have to laugh too when we talk about schools being behind the technology curve. Most freshmen at the high school where I teach are more skilled using a computer than a majority of our faculty. What teachers need is more paid time to collaborate and update their skills. Never enough time!

I was a `turned off child` simply because so called educators left me to my own devices. This all sounds to me like these people here are passing on there responsibility of teaching to the child. Using flowery language as they have sounds frankly a cop out.
Ik kan ook andere taalen schrijven en spreken, maar dat kwam niet van skool.
Teachers...take your classes to museums, art galleries, tach them languages...You do your job, don`t talk fancey to shift your responsibility!

pammyoneto:
Here's a couple of points:

1. IQ does not necessarily correlate to general intelligence. Case in point: you'd be surprised at how many members of MENSA have as adults menial jobs.
2. The days of leaving school at 13, 14,15 and job for life and/or moving up the company ladder are mostly over with no qualifications. All particular qualifications show is that you can work and cope with a work/study at a particular level.

pammyoneto:
Here's a couple of points:

5. Any half decent parent would take their child to museums, galleries, exhibitions. Most are free and they are in abundance. You'd be amazed at how many children don't even have a library card or have got into the habit of reading. Yet have televisions, computers, playstations, mobile phones and internet access, eat not at a dining table but on watching the television.

I would also add that children of today may well be capable of texting and twittering or messaging eachother on social networks, however they have a new speak that debases the English language. Many children in the UK leave school unable to do simple maths.
I was educated during the mid 60`s and 70`s experimentation era and left with not one qualification. I have since discovered I have an IQ of 138, why wasn`t that noticed?

pammyoneto:
3. Apprenticeships or more technical, manufacturing is dead and trades people come from Eastern/Central Europe (changing economy/global village)
4. Using "flowery" language is just being able to articulate a point if a surgeon didn't understand "flowery" language how would that surgeon explain in a succinct way a procedure in a way you'd understand?

pammyoneto:
Here's a couple of points:


5. Continued
Then parents scratch their heads when their children sound like are obese, lack basic social and literacy skills.
****it's your responsibility NOT the educators****number five is PARENTAL responsibility, the adults had them and society subsidises them. Yet parental time gets wasted/ replaced with expensive nothings

PS: I understand your Dutch very similar to Flemish and more grammatically modern that Afrikaans. Ek es ne a water kop!

I don`t agree with everything said in this film. While I accept that change begins with an idea. I wonder what all the fuss is about. It was only some 45 years ago that television was introduced into the classroom and as childen we would all sit together and watch interesting educational programmes. It all depends on how a lesson is taught and how interesting a teacher makes it. Bring back P.E. get children to run about a field and do more sport, teach them languages.