Warlick

=Warlick=

=David Warlick: []= He is an author, programmer, public speaker and entrepreneur. Meanwhile, he is a 35 year educator. He has four books about instructional technology and 21st century literacy. He has also spoken to audience throughout the US, Europe, Canada, Asia, the Middle East and South America. In one of his writings from the website [], David Warlick mentions about the info graphic which showed the decreasing or less than satisfactory level of confidence that Americans has in its education system. I added this graphic to the ‘file’. He says this graphic show signs of things going on that are much deeper and broader than what’s happening in real classrooms. Warlick alleges what the most interesting with this part of graphic is that the decrease is not steady over years. Moreover, he says the second graphic, I added to file it, as well, shows downs of confidence level of American public. He asserts, the second graphic tell us that what was going on outside of classrooms during the years between 1978 and 2011. When he takes a look to the second graphic, he says the highest level of confidence of American public that is outside of the classrooms was on military. He alleges that the military protects people and people feel that. According to him, that is why people have the highest level of confidence on military. As for him second opinion about why people have these levels of confidence on these public places, he says the reason is that they do not interact with these places directly. He says people feel scared things that they do not see regularly. That is why they do not feel confident in these public areas.

As for on public schools, he says that “We’ve got to do a better job of inviting the public into our schools. We’ve got to sell them on “21st Century Learning” by showing it to them. We’ve got to inspire confidence by making people wish they could go back to high school. We need to ask ourselves the question, “How do we inspire confidence? Data or performance?”.

In my opinion, we need to engaged technology and education with regarding 21st Century learning styles of the new generation at public schools in order to build a big confidence on the people going schools. Today’s youth learns many of things with their friends, computer games, facebook conversations, blogs etc. To make them feel confident at schools, educators need to meet this kind of their daily learning style. They learn almost everything with new media. So I strongly agree with Warlick’s opinions. To do that, firstly we need to observe today’s youth and to make a decision what they really need to learn. Data or performance? Then, educators need of thinking about of teaching styles and teaching tools.

Thanks for reading my comments on some of David Warlick’s thought’s!! The Graphics I mentioned above:


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