America has fallen behind, both China and India have more
honors students than the US has kids; is one of the shocking facts included in
the video "Did you know" by Karl Fisch. Their populations are growing much faster
than ours,
every 6 minutes 60 babies will be born in the US, 244 babies will be born in
China, and 351 babies will be born in India. Then the video explains that not only are
other countries producing more kids but creating more intelligent kids, more so
than in the US. The US Department of
Education has put no money towards technology
education. It then poses the question
how we can prepare our children for the future and the future innovations,
while other countries quickly produce those who can and we stand without the
funding to do so.
The video "Did you know" by Karl Fisch brought up some scary facts about the future of education and technology. Personally I have always thought that innovations are something we should all accept and utilize. The fact that in 2049 we will have a computer that will be able to compute more than the human race collectively is utterly frightening. How could we prepare our students, when soon enough there will be computers that are as intelligent as they are? It also talked about how one in eight relationships now begin on an online dating site, and we send more text messages each day than there are people on the planet. We can't prepare our student for the future when we can't hold a conversation with someone in person. It truly made me think about how technologically able I am but also capable I am to interact with real people.
While the video brought many important issues to our attention, I personally found it a little confusing. All the facts were important and powerful if they were standing alone but sometimes I wasn't sure how one fact was part of the whole message. Mainly, was the facts about China and India, although they are important issues in education, resources, and population I feel they were a tad unconnected. It was still a powerful video I feel that they made it feel a little choppy and unclear. This then made it more confusing to see the clear message of the video, we need technology to progress into the future, yes it is frightening to think that possibly by 2049 we may have a computer that is more intelligent than the human race, but is that connected to education, and technology education? I feel that if the facts had been more centered around one central idea then it would have been more clear and powerful.
While the video brought many important issues to our attention, I personally found it a little confusing. All the facts were important and powerful if they were standing alone but sometimes I wasn't sure how one fact was part of the whole message. Mainly, was the facts about China and India, although they are important issues in education, resources, and population I feel they were a tad unconnected. It was still a powerful video I feel that they made it feel a little choppy and unclear. This then made it more confusing to see the clear message of the video, we need technology to progress into the future, yes it is frightening to think that possibly by 2049 we may have a computer that is more intelligent than the human race, but is that connected to education, and technology education? I feel that if the facts had been more centered around one central idea then it would have been more clear and powerful.
