Ted Talks Educations Extra Credit

            “ All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”

                                                                        Benjamin Franklin

        Ted talks Educations; explores the ideas of transforming the US education.

 The first speaker was Rita F. Person. She goes on to state that the thing we forget and rarely talk about is the value and importance’s of human connections “relationship” Person asserts that if teachers encourage students to be better and have “I am” somebody mentally they could achieves amazing things. Person acknowledges that it isn’t easy, but it’s something that needs to be done.

        

        Remember when you were a little kid and everything I mean everything that you touched, seen, saw and spoke came with the question why? Ramsey Musallam states the importance of building curiosity in students and if your able to do that the possibility is infinite. He spoke about his daughter’s, and how he was afraid when she got older and went to school that her teacher’s wouldn’t support her curiosity Musallam argues that there is a difference between knowledge and understanding and if teacher instilled some foam of understanding it’s more likely to stick.

Grits is what set apart each individual’s from one another. Angela Duckworth believes that all human being has the capacity to learn; it just depends on the passion one might have. Duckworth’s argues that this should be promoted in children’s and young adults and it should be nurtured in school  Bill Gates and Dr. Geoffry Canada both spoke about change and how the old ways is no longer working because no one is benefiting from them. Gates stats there are a few things we can do to measure the effectives of teaching and see if it’s really working just like Dr. Canada he stated the graudation rate of is school being 100% and college Admission being at 93% he stated the old ways wasn’t working. Students are changing and we must adapt to it.  Sir Ken Robinson spoke he explore the idea that what we are teaching is no longer effective and how America has great educations but it exist in alternative educations he explain that this shouldn’t be. The norms of the dominant cultures needs to be dominated to accepted the values of what the new norms can be..

This video urged teachers and America to change we are no longer living in a era where the academic standers for education was effusion .

I must admit teachers have one of the hardest jobs in the United States but we must also acknowledge that resources is not distribute evenly.