Posted on 03/13/2015 5:43:39 AM PDT by iowamark
Perfect economic eco-system, Chinese, Korean and Indian kids produce, and American kids consume.
If ya listen to Dems they claim that its the consumers who drive the economy not the producers, its their economic stimulus theory, just go ask Paul Krugman.
A great many people are kinesthetic learners: the ones who learn by doing.
Your physics instructor was a very wise man.
In English class, my ninth graders were making fun of how skilled they were on their electronics hinting that they wouldn’t need this literature, spelling grammar, etc.
my response was, I knew guys, my father, who invented computers, and they learned all this literature, grammar, spelling when they were their age.
They need to know that their texting skills are not impressive, it’s motivating
We exalt them, ‘oh Brandon is so great he is a whiz at the computer’
WEll, yeah, he’s not afraid of breaking it, he is in te learning years of his life and can figure out the language and he doesn’t have a brainload of things to think about to manage to run the house.
WE need to stop being so impressed with them
I cannot get my lawn cut. I’m not doing it. Not one adolescent in my neighborhood will come over and cut my lawn. I hire a firm to do it.
So I guess that 6 year $100K college degree “The Sanitary Habits Of the North African House Fly” is not working out for them, eh? They probably need to go back and get a PHD in that field.
Exactly!! We were discussing this at a meeting at work a few months back. Back in the old days, you had to understand technology to make it work. Now, you just push a button.
I love to make kids use a command line interface. They just freeze up and I get the "Oh, this is hard" line. To which I say. "Good - hard is good!"
You deserve a medal. I don’t see how you can stand it each day. Every time I teach a class I give it my all for a week or so at a time all day, every day taking the responsibility that if I can just be excited about what I am teaching and work really hard the students will get on board.... nothing, dull glazed eyes much of the time. Ask questions trying to get some discussion started... nothing, like pulling eye teeth. You have to drag everything out of them most of the time unless they think they have caught something wrong that I’ve said then they are like rabid beasts.
What I teach is what they are required to do to perform and keep the jobs they already have!
Being tech dependent doesn't mean you're tech savvy. And millenials are tech dependent.
I just did the sample test and THINK that I got them right (I couldn’t find a way of confirming this). I think the biggest problem is reading comprehension - the questions are not that difficult to answer once you figure out what they are asking.
“Being tech dependent doesn’t mean you’re tech savvy. And millenials are tech dependent. “
Exactly. Extremely few of them could build the tech they use. They are merely consumers, not engineers.
I try to teach a few adult industrial education classes. I see clear evidence of each of the following with disturbing frequency. At the beginning of every class I have to spend an hour just showing / reminding most of the class how to follow equations and the order of add, subtract, multiply, divide and raising numbers to powers.
(including the ability to follow simple instructions)... word problems that require selection of variables and the correct formula to apply blow their minds.
They can make a computer simulator do a lot of stuff but usually don’t know or care what is happening in the background or have any sense of the rightness of the numbers... they just expect them to be correct because they are provided by a computer.... never mind that there may be serious data entry errors or conflicting data.
I wonder what kind of a cliff they will drive off of some day. I don’t want to be around for it.
Fewer colleges and more trade schools.
Or even explain how it worked.
Say that to a millennial and they’ll slash your tires for dissin their improper grandma.
Just took a quick look at the first few sample questions and if our kids can’t answer those questions we are so screwed!!
Bump
Its attracting loads of immigrants from Korea and India for them. Obviously parents demands help drive the school systems quality. In Baltimore city most parents don't give a crap.
HCPSS posted this last year.
The Howard County Public School System has been named among the best school districts in the nation, and the top district in the state of Maryland, according to rankings released this week by Niche.com, an education and community analysis firm.
The system received ‘A’ grades or better for academic rigor, student diversity and quality of teachers. Rankings are based on a mathematical formula that weighs institutional and system demographic data and survey responses from more than four million respondents.
Several HCPSS elementary, middle and high schools were singled out as among the best public schools in Maryland in the state-based rankings. Waverly, Triadelphia Ridge, Clarksville, Pointers Run, Centennial Lane, Hammond, Manor Woods, Northfield and St. Johns Lane elementary schools were ranked among the ten best in the state. Ellicott Mills, Dunloggin, Burleigh Manor, Patapsco, Lime Kiln, Mount View, Clarksville, Hammond and Folly Quarter were ranked among Maryland’s ten best middle schools, and Marriotts Ridge, River Hill and Mount Hebron made the top ten list for high schools.
The complete rankings are available at https://k12.niche.com/.
Did Obama produce this data and is going out to apologize for us again?
No kidding, and I topped out with a “C” in algebra II when Nixon was still president.
As long as they can live with their parents they can probably do quite well on their low paying low skilled jobs.
I see young (American white and black) adults with their front desk jobs at the $10 gym, they have to learn how to process credit card info and fill out forms on a computer. Otherwise they are useless.
Meanwhile the Indian and Korean kids are going to college.
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