Tooters, and My Thoughts

I thought this group presentation was very well done, and I liked how they are addressing on what I feel is an important issue in todays world. This issue is our youth not receiving a good education, and also not being motivated to learn. Why is this? I think, as Tooter's addresses, they are simply just not interested in the curriculum that is being shoved down their throats by our education system. They cannot be creative and take classes they truly are interested in. Instead, they are practically forced to be interested in a subject, which frankly does not motivate one at all. These subjects that our students, particularly in public school education, makes them not want to go to school. Who wants to go to a class that will not help them in the future? There future job might not even have anything to do with the subject. So essentially they have wasted money, time, and effort on a class that will have no impact on them in the job field later on. This is a shame, because our education systems are suppose to make one prepare life later on or the 'real world'. Evidence of our school systems failing school-students and youth is the USA ranking on the global education scale. We are literally getting schooled. I believe this reason is exactly because of what Tooters addresses, and that is that our nation's youth does not care about school as much as other nation's youth does. This is not a slight towards our nation’s students, but more of those who are in charge of our school systems, as well with the teachers who simply do not care about connecting with the children in their classrooms.

The Tooters app really helps with students to garner interest in learning and become motivated. Them working one on one with a 'tooter' will naturally stimulate them to focus. Students should not dread going to school like they do. It is sad, because one should look forward to accumulating knowledge. They should be happy that they are doing something that will benefit them now AND later on in their life. However, it seems in most cases, this does not happen. Our youth is not energetic or motivated for education. I am glad Tooters brings awareness to this, because there needs to be a change. Students should love learning, and teachers should love teaching.

My Thoughts on Tooters

     One presentation I really liked was the one called tooters. Not only was it a good idea, but the presentation was also very well created and administered. I think the fact that they focused their app and idea on younger kids in order to get them out of that same old standardized testing slump that us high school kids weren't able to be saved from. It is good for kids to be able to think in several other ways instead of just the insignificant way that teachers test you for standardized tests. It gives students initiative to do better in school while also tutoring them in the subjects they aren't doing so well in. It may seem like a complex type of teaching, but really it's the way most of us were taught when we were little before all the technology and guidelines to meet. Most of those guidelines are just for the schools image anyway and not the actual students progress. And these guidelines most likely determine whether a school stays open or not. I think the whole process of standardized testing isn't really efficient like the creators though it would be. Some kids may be very smart, but just can't express it during tests because they aren't good test takers. I can certainly relate to that because testing anxiety is definitely a real thing. Another thing that could also cause the kid not to do well is the stress that the test can bring because it can have such an effect on the whether the child can pass on to the next grade or not. As they pointed out, it is too late for us high school students to get in on this old type of learning because we are already in that kind of mindset, but as for little kids just started out, they should be able to act and learn like kids not be stressing over school. The treats that they get in this program is nice too. I also liked there whole set up of going to the person in need of tutoring " like uber but for tutoring". I thought that was really clever. Also the fact that they created their own YouTube commercials with custom songs just for the project was going outside the box with their presentation. The fact that they were more focused on kids being better learners, thinkers, and innovators. Not having them become drones of a standardized testing system and actually enjoying their childhood instead.

Why I have a Distaste in School

The group project "Tooters" made by Brianna, David, John, and Victor made an app where anyone could earn some extra cash by becoming a tutor for children. This was a great concept because it is an opportunity for two audiences: The tutors to make money and children who may need help in school subjects. It is very easy to use the app all you have to do if your are interested in being a tutor you sign up and do a application (just as any job would) then you'll have the job if qualified in no time to help students. In other hands if you are a student in need of a tutor you can look onto the app to see where the nearest one is for you and the app will make a meeting spot for you two to have a session. This was the basic run down of what the app is for now why it was created is even more terrific.

Their main focus was to help improve how children learn nowadays. I say that as in for example me I have been in the new way of learning experience as long as I have been in school and still to my current 11th grade year. I have been taught from my teachers learning what is going to be on "the test". I say the test as being very broad coming from standardized testing such as Common Core, CFAs, ACT, SAT, EOCs etc. In these times the teachers (even have said it themselves) are just preparing you to make the score that you have to get in order to prove how you  learn or what you haven't. In other words if you don't make the average score or what they think you need to make your dumb and don't know what your doing. Also if your normally smart or get good grades then after you fail once its because you don't "apply yourselves".

This is so inaccurate in my opinion. You can't accurately measure a student's intelligence by the number on a test for numerous reasons. First the student may make careless mistakes on the test, second their teacher may have not taught them everything they needed to know for that test, also their teacher may not care at all for certain students ... and the list goes on and on. This app provides students with real people who care for the education that children revive and want to help them enjoy  learning and school. They want kids to have a positive experience with school and not just learn for the score but to learn out of "curiosity and critical thinking and improvisational skills". This is why I would've loved to have had this app before I  started learning the new way of education.