Why And How Our Schools Need To Be
- 1. Why and How our Schools Need to be SavedSOS Classroom Summer 2009Edwin Choy
- 2. education is stuck in manual
- 3. students today would much rather…
- 4. go on Wikipedia…than go to the Library
- 5. go on Youtube…than go to class
- 6. if facebook were a country it would be the fourth largest in the world
- 7. students would rather be onlinewould rather learn online
- 8. yet the internet is a disorganizedplace to learn
- 9. there are over 4 billion unique publicly accessed websites in the worldonly 6 percent have educational material
- 10. in 2002 Nintendo invested more than $140 million in Research and Developmentthe US Government spent halfas much on Research and Innovation in Education
- 11. public education continues to struggle to keep up
- 12. public education in Los Angeles is struggling just as much
- 13. in the Summer of 2009, LAUSD cut all summer school programs for grades K-8225,000 children in LA take summer school every year
- 14. what alternatives do parents have?-hire costlytutors-enroll their students in expensive private programs-purchase boring workbooks
- 15. its even harder now for parents to get free or low cost support for their children’s education
- 16. the SOS ClassroomA collection of online resources for grades K-8-Comprehensive and complete; covers all areas of the elementary and middle school curriculum-Fun and easy to access; webpage built on Pageflakes technology, easy for anyone to navigate-Informative and appealing; animations, games, fun characters, and videos makes learning interesting for kids
- 17. the SOS Classroom brings education into the Digital Age
- 18. the SOS project depends on crowdsourcing to:-support the educational needs of students-use social bookmarking to organize online education-create an ever expanding online educational index-teach students and their parents how to perpetuate their own educationthis collection of resources is just a jumping off point…
- 19. the SOS Classroom is more sustainable truly public education