Thursday, October 11, 2007

How do you feel about what you know? 2cents worth

In 2020 the things that you are being taught now will not be the same things that you are learning today right? I know that my parents are learning new things from me that they were never taught in 9Th grade. My sister is learning some things now that I wasn't taught in 5Th grade. Does this mean that in 2020 we are going to be working at a hamburger joint in the middle of nowhere just because we are going to be dumber than kids that are going into kindergarten now? Or are we getting the good life because we will be so advanced in "old school things" like a pencil and paper for English, and a text book for math or history that if all the computers in the world were to crash, we could outsmart the technology taught children.
Is my sister going to be more advanced in technology that she is going to be my boss? This scares me knowing her and how she would treat me and her employees.

Dave Worlick came from a small mill town in the middle of nowhere. His social studies teachers were more coaches than they were teachers. It all changed when he went to college and attended history classes that utterly mesmerized him. He wanted to become a history teacher. Now that his relationship with history was not without its ups and downs. I probably changed interests while he was in college more times than a flee hops hairs on a hound dog. But he always came back to teaching, and never considered anything else but history. He watched, almost exclusively, the PBS channel, any show he could identify as having anything to do with history, or even science if it could be applied to the social world. He subscribed to far more magazines than he could afford (asking for subscriptions from family members for Christmas) he said. Am I going to be like this my in tire life, not just college?

When the world reaches 2020, will my class and I be considered dumb in the eyes of the kids in elementary school? What will my parents and my teachers be considered, "dumb or smart for their time, I guess"? As the elementary school classes will be saying maybe.

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