Think, Find, Move On

For my education PLN response I read “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader” posted by Mr. Fisch. This article is about 5th graders from East Elementary who had to watch Obama's speech, blog about it, then have a discussion on it. This really made me think because when I was in Elementary School we never had to do anything like this. We almost never even used the computers. This is just showing me how far technology has come and how much it is affecting schools. Also it seems like these kids are pretty smart because if 5th graders have to blog about Obama’s speech then have a discussion on it then the kids must be gifted or just worked really hard because when you think about it we didn’t even have to do anything like this in High School. I personally didn’t even see the speech. Really these teachers are just trying to get there kids ready for Middle School though. Look at it this way. I will use an example from the show “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader”. You always see some adults go up on that show and they miss some very easy questions. So this is showing that either these people didn’t do well in school or they didn’t even make it threw school which is very possible because according World Socialist Web Site more than 1.2 million High School students drop out every year. That’s a lot. One of the points that I’m trying to get at though is that anyone can make it threw school; it’s the people that help themselves though that actually do make it though. Teachers are only at school to help people help themselves. That's all teachers do. Everything we ever need to know is in a book somewhere or we can easily find what we want to know on the Internet. I mean don’t get me wrong teachers are great people and they constantly help us and point us in the right direction but with the technology these days we wouldn’t need them. But along with that I personally think that no one would ever do work if they didn’t have teachers to tell them what to do. I wouldn’t. This is what Mr. Fisch's article "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader" made me think about.