Education needs an update

I found it interesting that the people in the audience ages 25 and up wore a wrist watch even though it

was unnecessary, given that the only function it has, is in all cellular devices. In my opinion the people

that wore watches, wore them just because they're used to doing it. I believe some things in the

educational system are the same. Teachers have not changed their educating methods because they're

just used to educating in a certain manner. The teaching methods in the school's I've attended, if not all

but most, are the same. Students are expected to learn from copying down notes and filling out

worksheets. All of the learning was based on repetition for the sake that it would stick to your head;

some of the information sticks with you but most of it fades away, which makes sense because of the

lack of practice. What I find interesting is, how is it that we remember certain things easily and other

things we have to dig deep in to our memory? What did the teacher do differently? What did the student

do differently? I don't believe that the way teaching is done today has to be completely changed, it

simply has to be updated-and it probably has to be a huge update, from teaching 1.0 to teaching 5.0. I

remember a teacher was telling my class " I'm a math teacher but sometimes I'm a language arts teacher

too" or something around those lines. He was explaining the origin of the prefixes on the names of

some geometric shapes- which are in Latin and Greek. I didn't put much thought into what he said until

now. I think that part of education is also a bit "out of date", that part being categorization. We expect to

solely learn math in math, English in English, history in history, so on and so forth. However, as i go

back and reflect on it, I do remember learning various subjects in one class. Although, I do think it

should be done more. Why? Well, we all have different types of smarts. We can use a certain smart to

help develop another smart. Like for example, maybe we are musically smart and we're trying to learn

something about language, so you'll sing a song about it. Which is the way we learned the alphabet.

Also another effect that categorizing causes, is hate or unwillingness to learn a subject. For instance, we

may be challenged with learning algebra because we don't have much logical smarts; we move on forth

through our lives, thinking we hate math now. If we truly believe that kids are our future then we

should help them so that they can help us. Lets change the way we learn.

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Angel Rodriguez 

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          Most people live their lives by a routine, which can lead to frustration and stress. They live their life by the clock; therefore, they stop caring about everything around them and they just focus with getting through the day. It's common for people to go on autopilot, specially when they do the same thing over and over. It becomes a habit. It's as if we were robots, made to do and repeat a set of actions over and over. I like to think of people that operate their lives in this manner as ants; working at a fast pace, without taking the time to slow down and see what's going on around them. 

          Most of the time we'll concentrate on our own problems and forget about other's. We will believe the world revolves around us, when in reality it does not. When you become self centered, you go by your day unaware of what other's may be experiencing at the moment. The people around you can be having an equally or worse day.           We all have choice. From the very moment our alarm sounds in the morning, we can choose to stay in bed or we can choose to get up and take on the day. I find that most decisions are made out of selfishness. For example, we'll wake up thinking " I need to get up" , "I'll get up in five more minutes" , " I kind of don't want to go" , " I need to pay the rent, electricity, phone bill, etc. ". All the tasks and actions consist of "I " . Everything revolves around "I" . We'll be so focused about ourselves that we forget about how others are doing. 

However, life doesn't have to be like that. We can choose to see things from a different perspective.  

          Benevolence is something we don't see much anymore. I believe people are becoming more unaware of others, because of technology. Technology can keep us from interacting with other human beings. I feel as if we can disconnect away from all the social media for one day, we can get people to greet each other, ask how their day is going, etc. Turn off the clock for a little bit and switch off the "I" mentality. Open up your eyes and look at how others are doing.

About: Angel Rodriguez

         My name is Angel Rodriguez. I've lived in two places for the most of life: San Leandro, CA and San Jose Itrubide, GTO (Mexico) . I like playing all sports but my favorite is football- also known as soccer. I've been playing soccer ever since my dad introduced me to it, which was when I was about 10-11 years old. I like to learn theory and to make beats on my spare time. I enjoy cooking because after the meal is prepped.. I get to feast!!