School's out for Summer!-AMA

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

As a baby boomer, I hear lots of things about how education is worse today than the olden days when I was walking around in my Mork and Mindy t-shirt and mood ring. So I don't need any more theories on that.

In what ways is education better today than it was thirty years ago?

We can incorporate technology and "take kids" to places they may not go. Videos, not a picture in a book. Multiple sources.

We try to get kids to think and process more with open ended projects instead of memorization. I try not to teach crap they can just look up on the internet.

Those are all good things.


I despise multiple choice tests. They prove nothing. But yet all state tests are MC. Even math.