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media type="custom" key="20287476" Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future Life is so unpredictable. As humans as much as we want to control the world the more the world controls us because through every revolution we respond. We are reactive people instead of being proactive. As we respond to the advances of technology the world becomes a new place we have to learn to adapt to the change because the world starts to look like a different place. The middle class and poor are unequipped to respond to this change in a time frame that is conducive to the competitive advantage, resulting in a diminished middle class and poor unable to sustain the basic necessities.

media type="custom" key="20238698" The Did you Know movie is certainly an Eye Opener...in fact, I showed the older version to my students last school year. I showed it to my students because when I first watched the video it troubled me when I considered the outlook for my students. My students and I had a very engaging discussion about how children in other countries such as India and China are more discliplined in their studies. We discussed how jobs are being outsourced to other countries and foreigners are migrating to the US and going to our best schools and getting the most competitive jobs. Ultimately, the discussion led to the schools in the United States and how they are not being prepared to compete in a global society.

media type="custom" key="20287030" Why we don't need computers in school. Clifford Stoll Stoll is a unique individual and brilliant in his own way. It was difficult to follow his discussions because he was all over the place. I wonder to Stoll's point of why computers should not be in schools because he exemplifies that he has many professions with many creations and once he does something he is on to the next thing. Perhaps he feels that computers stifle the creativity in children. I was surprised that he teaches a 4th grade class four days a week. I would love to see a video of his teaching a class and the students reaction and response to him.

media type="custom" key="20287214" Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums I totally agree with Leadbeater that education innovation is a must if we expect our students to be engaged in their own learning. Students are not extrinsically nor intrinsically motivated to learn. In fact, students know and expect to come to the classroom listening to a teacher and regurgitating the teachers or textbook knowledge. However, Leadbeater witnessed education innovation in some of the poorest areas of the world which is encouraging that economic status has no real bearing of student learning and achievement, given the opportunity through education innovation.

media type="custom" key="20287358" Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching I selected this video because I observed Sugata Mitra's talk at the IDEA Festival. While I agree that schools should be restructured for the 21st century learner, students engage when they are interested and they learn from one another I am not sure of the role of a teacher in the restructured classroom. Although, students have access to the world via Internet I believe the Internet has killed many childrens ability for creativity. Mitra believes that because students have access to so much information it is pointless for a teacher to try to teach students for memorization because the information learned will be useless. I tend to agree that much of what students learn they will never access or use in their lifetime. I think he has many valid points that we can consider in restructuring schools in the US.media type="custom" key="20393792" The Dangers of Sextingmedia type="custom" key="20541888"