Attention Yardies: Observe 21st Century Reality..

[Don1]

The Reality: We're in the 21st Century....NOT the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s or 1990s.

So why the r@th unnu Jamaicans ACT like unnu live inna di 20th????????????

Where you see "American"...kindly plug in "Jamaican" as our shitstem is 100X more backward

BUT....Help is on di wayyyy ....TOOT!!! TOOT!!! ALLLL ABOARDDDDD!!!

American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist

Americans need to learn how to discover.

Being dumb in the existing educational system is bad enough. Failing to create a new way of learning adapted to contemporary circumstances might be a national disaster. The good news is, some people are working on it.

Against this arresting background, an exciting new kind of learning is taking place in America. Alternatively framed as maker classes, after-school innovation programs, and innovation prizes, these programs are frequently not framed as learning at all.

[Sir X]

Love your educational zeal,brings a different face to the dying forum- sigh.

[Don1]

Love your educational zeal,brings a different face to the dying forum- sigh.

Evvyting muss dead. Suh if ah time fi dis dead...so be it

But upliftin' wi yutes is Job 1 fi D1....An' wi nuh inna nuh 20th Century Dead Paradigm tings fi wi yutes dem. Wi leff dat backwardness to di fossil dem fi promote. Unlike most our expectations fi Jamaicans high like di sky

Shake wi out fi shake up di shitstem 'til peeple cosmic get some sense. If not we...WHO agguh dweet????

Century 21 wi deal wid...REALITY it name mi bredda

Stay chuned

[Don1]

More 21st Century Realities...

...Kinda like having a QUIZ as the leading academic competition....in the year 2017...BACKWARD

Easy yuhself Therese.... TOOT!!! TOOT!!!

GSAT not preparing students for a technologically driven world, says IDB
BY KIMONE FRANCIS
Observer staff reporter
francisk@jamaicaobserver.com

Wednesday, May 03, 2017

THE Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has made a formal recommendation to Government to abandon the much-criticised Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), which it said is failing to adequately prepare students to function in a technologically driven world.IDB Country
Representative Therese Turner-Jones

She said Jamaica and the Caribbean are behind in an era where artificial intelligence, and manufacturing, which does not involve human beings and agriculture that can be done in buildings, are taking place.

“There's a huge gap in our knowledge, so it has to start really early. Get rid of GSAT. Teach science, language skills and math,” she urged, while recommending that Government adapt the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

PISA is an IDB programme which evaluates, every three years, what 15-year-old students know and can do in science, reading, and mathematics.

“Introduce that exam and test our kids at age 15, not at 11 when most kids are barely out of [diapers]. Test them at that point so that they can basically do an international comparison across the rest of the world. It's not okay to say we are better than Trinidad and Tobago. So what?

We want to be better than Finland which gets the best results in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). So that's where we want to be and that's where we have to take the mindset in education,” Turner-Jones said.

[Jangle]

Good talk. i also believe that the Ministry of Education should change the curriculum for foreign languages. They need to do away with focusing on teaching how to read and write these foreign languages and focus instead on speaking. Conversational Spanish should be mandatory and taught as a second language and we should also get Mandarin Chinese into the curriculum.

[Don1]

Good talk. i also believe that the Ministry of Education should change the curriculum for foreign languages. They need to do away with focusing on teaching how to read and write these foreign languages and focus instead on speaking. Conversational Spanish should be mandatory and taught as a second language and we should also get Mandarin Chinese into the curriculum.

The problem lies with the backward thinking and VERY low expectations Jamaicans have for the country i.e. themselves

Most believe that it's fine (if not great!) for Jamaica merely to be a place where fat tourists romp around and buy trinkets....And that Jamaicans are at their best being servants of various kinds to such people.

Not to mention we feel it's great that we can run fast, play ball, dance & sing (often) ridiculous chunes

As to the creation of products???? Oh yes...that's for other people... Europeans & Asians in particular. That's not for us...nor for Black people in general.

However we're very ready to join lines to buy things those people make...so that we can feel that "supn ah gwaan fi wi" e.g. the latest car or gadget

The buying and reselling of imported products is the "height" of business for most Jamaicans... High end higglering

We're victims of self hate, backward mindsets and very low expectations.

That's BAD CULTURE

It's that simple ...and pathetic