ADRIANA M NEGRON-CRUZ

English 3103-141

Prof. Petra Avillán

Xavier de la Cruz, Carlos Díaz, Marielisa Ferrer, Adriana Negron 

August 23, 2016

Our Response to Reading and Videos

Education in the 21^st Century

            “Education in the 21^st Century” is a video presented by the Smithsonian Student Travels that lets us know how education, technology, and life has evolved and created what is now the 21^st century. The United States population in nearly the same amount of people that have been able to learn and speak the English language in China and there are more than 450,000 words in the English language. That is seven percent of what Shakespeare could’ve used in his time. This demonstrates the evolution of our knowledge and the way things expand itself throughout the whole entire world with technology. Many think China is what will take over and that is what has been taught and said because of the economic growth they have, but in reality India is expected to be the most populous nation by 2025 and one in four worlds workers will be Indians. Other than the growth in populations another thing that has been growing throughout the entire world is the control that technology has on us. The digital growth in the universe in the past five years has been by 1,000%. Technology isn’t only a personal daily use now, but it is also used and needed for education. Forty-six percent of teachers say their homework will require technology to be done and ninety-four percent of students say their homework requires technology. This is the information that demonstrates that us as human beings is this society not only use technology as an advancement, but depend on it to be able to keep moving forward. In the 21^st century it isn’t and shouldn’t only be about teaching and learning technology, but by using it to create cultural awareness, creativity, problem solving, innovation, communication, and so on and so forth. All of these qualities are what help share, evolve, and make an advancement of our knowledge with others throughout the world. All of this information that has been shared with us through the video is what distinguishes the 21^st century from the 17^th, 18^th, and 19^th centuries.

EFSmithsonian. "What Is 21st Century Education?" YouTube. YouTube, 2012. Web. 28 Aug. 2016.