tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16660456.post116645537018152571..comments2024-03-22T08:16:45.553-06:00Comments on The Fischbowl: I'm (We are) TIME Magazine's Person of the YearKarl Fischhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11121548023409279686noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16660456.post-1166474571507911272006-12-18T13:42:00.000-07:002006-12-18T13:42:00.000-07:00I agree. Can't we find any fact that we want/need...I agree. Can't we find any fact that we want/need in almost the blink of an eye now? So the need to memorize a million facts that you could look up in less than a minute seems more than just unnecessary. Even in foreign language. Can't you find an online translator in a second? Or better yet, you can speak into a computer using the new Nuance voice recognition software and translate it into Spanish in 1 second. Does that make my job obsolete?<BR/><BR/>I don't think so. I agree with Michelle that students need to know the causes, the effects, the psychology and reasoning behind all of these facts. They need to go beyond memorization. I agree that students in my class should be required to constantly communicate in Spanish while engaged in other learning. What a concept, I love it. Now the trick is to impletment this into my classrrom and start speaking Spanish to learn Spanish and learn about the world.bkitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05950261563703794986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16660456.post-1166466366176867112006-12-18T11:26:00.000-07:002006-12-18T11:26:00.000-07:00My response was one of jealousy; I want my son to ...My response was one of jealousy; I want my son to attend such a school that studies Japanese and Spanish, but in the context of speaking about anything: math, social studies, etc. No offense to foreign language teachers, but my teachers only taught me terms and then had me apply them in superficial scenarios. We weren't required to speak French in class, only on oral exams. I took 4 years of French and yet, can barely say: Je ne parle pas francais.<BR/><BR/>I wish that politicians would hear this message about global education. Instead, high schools and colleges require you to know all sorts of information about the geography of a state, the history of a state, etc.--all of which I can find in 2 seconds on Wikipedia. What would be fascinating to learn is what caused the events and what happened because of them, not just memorizing facts for that day and deleting them from my brain the next hour. <BR/><BR/>Am I being too cynical?<BR/><BR/>I want to be the kind of teacher that this article talks about, but where do I go from where I am?Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14779484407179923392noreply@blogger.com