Iowa Big Reflection

After reflecting back on your presentation there were a few things that stuck in my mind. The first one was when you asked our class to say why we were here, there was another question (not on the recording), and wrote them on the chalk board. The reason I think it stuck in my mind was because of how you were able to relate your presentation back to those words and why they were important. Despite our answers they were able to relate to your story in one way or another. One of the words was related back to the idea of being conditioned for fear. This was a concept that I have never heard of and thought it was interesting once I learned what it was and how it can affect you. It makes it so as if certain things weren’t even happening in your …show more content…
During this part you talked about how several things needed to be reimagined. Those were education, health care, government, and transportation. One way to re do education would be like what Iowa Big is about. This is the new type of schooling/ education that is being tested out to see if students will benefit from it or not. I think that this is a great idea and I would agree with you that something needs to be done to change our school systems. Our school systems have lost what the main goal of an education is and I think that Iowa Big is changing that and allowing us to get back on the right track based on what you told us about the school and how the classes are based. I like the idea of getting real world experience and working with the community as a way to gain education, instead of being locked up in a building for 8 hours and not learning. This could be part of the reason why children are having such hard time learning and remembering information. They aren’t getting to interact as much as students used to be able to and are getting even less time to be children while they are younger. We are drilling more and more into their heads during k-12 and causing them to learn more when under and can lead to them becoming burnt …show more content…
I just thought he had a very inspirational story to tell us students. It was a very good speech for me to listen to and had some things I could take away from it. Don’t be afraid to achieve your goals you have set. You might be faced with hard times throughout your life, but you have to keep going and not let them bring you down. Also you need to make sure you do what makes you happy and not what other people are telling you to do. It’s your life, not theirs! I think continuing to work on Iowa Big and changing our education is a really important aspect of our future. I am very glad I was able to take this class and be able to learn all the things I have