Curriculum+In+The+21st+Century

ARJUN, JEREMY, DERREK, DAMON,


 * Curriculum In The 21st Century**


 * “Education is something that goes deep with people like money and religion. Children starting school this year, will retire in 2065, so thus there is no predictability with how education will advance through the years. “**

__1. What are the challenges being presented?__

In the Ted conference there is an extraordinary amount of human creativity, and it’s a place where anything can happen. And this is the crux of the speech, creativity, and the lack of creativity seen in schools today.

All children have amazing abilities but because of our education, we are squandering their abilities because now creativity is less important than literacy. Children are frightened of being wrong, and thus kid loose their creativity since we stigmatize mistakes. We are educating people out of creativity. __2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to?__

The speaker wants to say that in the 21 st centaury we need to stop magnifying mistakes, and emphasizing them, rather than encourage to be creative and to be wrong, but to learn from everyone’s mistakes. Also to encourage activities such as the arts like dance, art, and music, and drama. Instead we want people to teach subjects like math, science, which are the subjects, which are most needed to support the economy and jobs. The world is engulfed in revolution and so is the education system. Every education on Earth has the same hierchy of subjects; the most important is Math, Science, and then Humanities, and then the Arts. And then even in the arts there is an order, where music, and art is the top, and dance, and drama are at the bottom.

If we were to explain public education to an Alien, and if they asked what is the point of public education. we would have to answer anything but to encourage creativity. We would have to say that they are all going to be university professor when they group up, which is a job of memorization and teaching. No innovation or creativity.

Education is always based upon academic ability, kids are taught to support the economy. For example the economy or revolution needs mathematicians not artists, scientists not musicians. Now degrees are every important since now job qualifications are increasing as the world is improving rapidly.

__3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting?__

We have to recognize other kids and people’s creativity and their creative potential and to see how well they can do in subjects they like.

We have to teach the subjects which we are good at, and enjoy, and that and that only will encourage creative and outside of the box learning which only comes out of real skill.

Ignore mistakes and encourage learning from mistakes, an s that will encourage the courage to try something new and different.

Hands on learning, and being out in the field, such as airplanes and airports, in order to learn about airplanes is an example of hands on and going out in the field type of learning. __4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research.__

// 1. // // Why is History so Important in Our Curriculum? // // 2. // // Why don’t they value street smarts? // // 3. // // What are schools actually trying to get at? // // 4. // // What curriculum would best prepare us for the real world? // // 5. // // Should there be a change in the heirchecal order of subjects? // // 6. // // What curriculum would make less kids drop out from school? // // 7. // // What would schools look like it wasn’t for the industrial revolution? // // 8. // // Are we forced to go to school because of our parents? // // 9. // // How to make a school which both creative but at the same time prepares you for the future? // // 10. // // Which subjects would increase the rate kids getting jobs? //