Everything Timothy Wilson said in his March 5 letter to the editor is happening because we are stuck in the 19th century as far as educational teaching methods and teaching with technology is concerned. YouTube has thousands of videos on what can and is being done to bring educational systems into the 21st century, and Finland is the world\u2019s leader in innovation and results, but I haven\u2019t found a single person in Hawaii, Guam, or Saipan that has taken the time to look into it. Not one! What little technology that is available is not being utilized at all in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n
Again, YouTube has it all laid out in easy-to-understand videos that even a teacher can understand. But wait, surprise, surprise, YouTube is blocked in every school in Hawaii, Guam, and Saipan. The single greatest repository of information and knowledge ever assembled on the planet is unavailable to our students. Today\u2019s kids can get around the block, of course, but without teachers using YouTube for learning, it doesn\u2019t make any difference whether it\u2019s blocked or not. Our kids need a challenge and touch screen tablets, the Internet, and YouTube can keep them engaged and interested in this 21st century. Just YouTube \u201ceducation in Finland\u201d and \u201ctechnology in the classroom\u201d and be sure to filter by upload date and only watch videos not more than a year old.<\/p>\n
Here is a 5 minute video that highlights Finland\u2019s system: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q6jJy-lmoWA.<\/p>\n
Gary Dubrall<\/strong> Everything Timothy Wilson said in his March 5 letter to the editor is happening because…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[773,51,163,70],"class_list":["post-29195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-finland","tag-guam","tag-kids","tag-technology-2-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChalan Piao, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"