Why is the world becoming flat?
What are the problems? What would you change? The world is becoming flat and less connected as we observe gaps in education across countries. Even though the US is spending more money than other developed countries on public education its students are still falling short of other nations who have adopted reason or creative based education practices. While the US has taken steps away from rote memorization to assess students' learning more still needs to be reformed. In an example from Chapter 1 a Chinese class will take an entire period coming up with different ways to solve one real world problem and not move forward until all students understand and are able to demonstrate understanding in several ways. I would like to change to be more like this model. While we use Problem Based Interactive Learning (PBIL) as a part of our math curriculum it is not the only form of practice that the students get to use. The example from China is a lot more interactive and student based. It requires students to reason and be creative. Our classrooms are moving towards that level of mastery, however we have not reached it yet.
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