Class Update: 3/24/11

Today for class, Via Skype, Dr. Johnson talked to us from Washington D.C.!  Isn't technology wonderful?  I have never been to a class conducted via Skype before.  It was very interesting and really cool to see how the technology works. She asked us to get into our small groups and  asked us to discuss what we know about education in China and India. This introduced the topic of a movie we were going to watch for the remainder of the hour called 2 Million Minutes. From ninth grade to graduation is approximately two million minutes of times, and the movie showed what American students do with their time compared to students in India and China. I found the video to be very interesting, and an eye opener to what is going on in education in the United States compared to countries like India and China. American students spend far less time on education, than students in China and India. No wonder they are passing by us academically!