Connections between On Demand Video Technotari and Lets Abolish High School

After reading the article “Lets Abolish High School” I realized how debilitating a high school can be for a student. In this article, the author describes how students hate high school, and how our nation deems adolescents as incompetent and unable to act mature. However, by using the example of his 15 year old son, who is intelligent and mature, we see that this misconception lies in the eyes of educators who bore their students.

For instance, in this article, the author, Epstein states:

“A century ago, there was no way to address these concerns, but, thanks to computers and the Internet, we now have rapidly improving tools that will soon allow virtually all young people to master essential material at their own pace, and to do so at any point in their lives. There will probably always be a place for the classroom, but it will be a place where intense and intimate learning takes place with highly willing students, not a step on an assembly line.”

This quotation directly connects to the article on video on demand and the Technorati readings. For instance, the video on demand article discusses that students are visual learners, and technology will allow students to lean and actually love what they’re learning by accessing this program. Aslo, Technotari, who is the main aggregation point for all forms of social media on the Web, including blogs, of course, but also video, photos, audio such as podcasts and much more, shows the increasing trend of using media and technology.

Furthermore, Epstein states, “education needs to be spread out over a lifetime, and the main thing we need to teach our young people is to love the process of learning” If we were to look at the trends and realize that our students are competent but just bored with the mass education mill that we force them to go to day after day, we would be able to make our students love and appreciate knowledge and learning.