Purpose+of+Schools


 * Include the names of all members of your group, and your responses to the following questions:**

**1. What are the challenges being presented? 2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? 3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting? 4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research

Bogdan, Will, and Stuart:** The Purpose of Schools 1. What are the challenges being presented. Students are questioning if the subjects they learn in school will help help later in life. Examples of this are our own irrelevant curriculum. by this we mean that our curriculum is not relavent to what some of the students will want to learn later in their life. because, 20 years from now, we wont remember or care to remember platos allegory of the cave or Tokugawa ieyasu. Most of us will be in jobs that do not exist yet. so how could something that happened hundreds of years ago possibly help us in our future.

2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? The speaker (dan) is trying to get the 21st century should respond to the excessive textbook use and trying to promote the use use of the media we have around us. by media I mean the various video recording and audio recording devices. and example is any cell phone. where most can hold around 100 high quality pictures. if we could utilize this technology we have today, we could make all classes more engaging and more fun for students instead of just learning through a textbook.

 3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting? Dan is suggesting that textbook questions are simply guiding the students by giving them the right amount of information, not too much or too little. This creates a problem because "we are congratulating our students for simply jumping over small questions rather than answering the question at hand with no hints". The conclusion, the world needs patient problem solvers.

4. What As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research. 1) Who creates the curriculum and why do they choose what they choose? 2) How do you determine what knowledge will be useful in your life? 3) From research and experience, determine how many units should be present in each school year. 4) Should religion, physical education and fine arts be more emphasized in the curriculum? 5) What makes one subject superior to another? 6) Is the current system effective? 7) Inquiry over textbooks? 8) Who should create the curriculum and the course outline for each specific unit? 9) Would it be possible and worth it to allow every student to choose what they want to learn? 10) Do students know what they want to learn?

Lilly, Brody, Quinn =] 1.Should schools have content objective or skill objective? 2.How should we incorporate student choice in curriculum? 3.Should you grade students for what they should know or what they already know?(For example in jobs people get paid on how much they do versus how much their suppose to do) 4.Are textbooks beneficial to the way students learn? 5.Can Dan Meyer’s idea about reshaping Math benefit the other topics? 6.Is the current curriculum actually including the expectations for learning? 7.What topics should be taught/introduced students? 8.Should middle school be a jumpstart for students to prepare for their future occupations? 9.Should the purpose and teachings of teachers be changed to better fit the 21st century? 10.Instead of using textbooks, could we utilize the new technology that we have today and provide EVERY school with it?