{"id":152,"date":"2008-01-13T20:11:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T01:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-11-30T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T17:52:51","slug":"holiday-converstations-on-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Conversations on Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: I originally wrote this over the Christmas vacation and lost it. So I am trying to recreate it from my notes. Not quite as good as the original.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are a wonderful time for multiple generations to sit around the table and share stories about the good old days. Around our table the conversations usually lean towards education and science. My parents were in high school during the mid 1940\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and we were talking about what the school day was like. It was not much different from today thought they had a longer lunch as kids walked home for lunch. Their schools still stand and are in use. I loved hearing about how they played kick the can and stick ball in the street. You could not do it on the same streets today. There was no TV, phones in the house, nor computers. You created your own play out of your imagination.<\/p>\n

Conversation drifted on to what was taught in classes. It amazed us that so much has been added to what is taught but little has disappeared in the curriculum. For example in the area of earth science my Dad and Mom learned about Continental Drift but since that time the theories of sea floor spreading and plate tectonics have been but forth. The textbooks get bigger but the day and year are still about the same length. Add to that state mandated tests, technology standards and the additional social programs added to the curriculums, no wonder everyone is stressed.<\/p>\n

Here is a list we generated of some of the changes since 1945. It is only a short list imagine all the other additions we expect our students to learn.<\/p>\n

Chemistry\/Physics
\nThe Discovery of New Elements
\nCurium (Cm)
\nAmericium (Am)
\nCalifornium (Cf)
\nEinsteinium (Es)
\nFermium (Fm)
\nMendelevium (Md)
\nNobelium (No)
\nBuckminster Fullerenes
\nAtomic\/Hydrogen bombs
\nLinear Accelerators
\nQuarks
\nSolar Cells<\/p>\n

Biology\/Medicine
\nVaccines: Polio, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Hepatitis B
\nThe Structure of DNA
\nDNA linked to genetics traits
\nDNA Testing, gene specific medicines
\nHuman Genome project
\nCloning
\nCancer treatments \u00e2\u20ac\u201c radiation and chemo
\nNew Antibiotics
\nScanning Electron Microscope<\/p>\n

Astronomy\/Earth Science
\nSputnik
\nApollo 11 Moon Landing
\nSkylab
\nSpace Shuttle
\nSpace Station Mir
\nHubble Telescope
\nThe Kuiper Belt
\nPluto a planet and then not
\nInternational Space Station
\nMars Exploration Rovers
\nTheory of Sea Floor Spreading
\nPlate tectonics<\/p>\n

History
\nWWII
\nIndian Independence
\nBritish Empire begins to break down- many new nations arise
\nKorean War
\nMcCarthy Era
\nVietnam
\nFall of the Soviet Union
\nPersian Gulf War 1 & 2
\nCuban missile crises
\nWater Gate
\n9\/11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: I originally wrote this over the Christmas vacation and lost it. So I am trying to recreate it from my notes. Not quite as good as the original. The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are a wonderful time for multiple generations to sit around the table and share stories about the good old days. Around our table the conversations usually lean towards education and science. My parents were in high school during the mid 1940\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and we were talking about…<\/p>\n

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