Blog Post # 10

This post by Morgan Bayda was about a young man, Dan Brown, that had recently dropped out of the University of Nebraska because the school was getting in the way of his education. He went through history and discussed how information was a powerful and valuable commodity, but as society and technology improved this became less valuable. he went on to say that this is the biggest reason for his decision to leave school, because his professors only would lecture on a topic for an hour while doing a power point, and the students were just expected to sit there and remember what was said, there was no discussion, there was no asking opinions of other students, just sit listen and study. He was very discouraged by this and decided to leave school.

After the video, Morgan Bayda wrote how she agrees with everything that Dan Brown had said up until he dropped out of college. There is a need for the education system to change the ways that things are taught. I know in my own personal experience that there have been classes that "needed" a textbook. I would get this book and only open it for ONE assignment, usually an unnecessary one at that, the entire semester just so that there would be justified reason for us to purchase this book. Morgan Bayda thinks that the system needs to change how the students get the information that is needed, and I couldn't agree with her more.



This blog was funny and informative and discussed the importance of teachers working towards a solution and not focusing on the problem. It is a short story about two teachers talking and one not wanting the students to take their pencils home with them because studies show lower standardized test scores with those students. The other teacher then responds and discusses possible solutions to this "study", rather than just give up and make the kids leave their pencils at school. After a little more of the back and forth between the two educators the first teacher gives up and says fine but it's your head on the line.

I am wondering how I will respond to these same pressures if they come up once I become a teacher, or will there even be studies done that are as asinine as this one in the story. I want to think that this is all just a humorous story, but if this is some of the stuff that is looked into I hope to be the type of teacher that will be focused on the solutions and not the problems.