Education is so significant in our lives as it not only affects us directly, but also indirectly and impacts the people who are surrounding us and the people who will be born after us. Education is also provided to US citizens by the government through public schools. These public schools, intended to impart learning for any child in the country equally, has been creating a deep division in success mainly diverged by socioeconomic classes. What is wrong with the current US public education system? What could we do to fix a system that affects almost everyone in the country? Chapter 9 in David and Jack Cahn’s book When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America explains the reasons why the current American public school system is corrupt, and
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The article explores a study conducted to see what teachers choose to do to conduct their classes when they have no restrictions and limits, specifically in terms of technology. The study showed that despite the freedom to choose the tool of choice, teachers stuck with power points, which are the most basic “old school” way of teaching a class. Savasci concludes after the study that teachers must increase their “ knowledge and skills about how to use those instructional technologies and help them develop positive attitudes toward information and communication technologies”. This illustrates Cahn and Cahn’s sub-claim that schools and their teachers should branch out to innovative technologies for their students. The intended audience seems to be the generation older than the millennials given the subject and context of the study is very factual, but can definitely be intended for millennials as well because the language used is not difficult relative to other academic studies conducted. The text itself is scholarly and factual with first-hand evidence which appeals to logos for older generations who may not be open to mere inductive reasonings. Not only that, but limitations and possible errors were discussed in the article to build up ethos for the audience. The source has its strength where it is an authentic study with very little subjectivity involved, however it is solely factual and contains no appeal to pathos. This is restrained by the overall idea that the source was a scholarly study rather than an author’s argument. This study relates to the main claim in chapter 9 that public schools are corrupt because it reveals that although millennials may benefit greatly from new gadgets, the teachers who are not millennials don’t know how to use such tools. It makes us think whether implementing the technology and
The article explores a study conducted to see what teachers choose to do to conduct their classes when they have no restrictions and limits, specifically in terms of technology. The study showed that despite the freedom to choose the tool of choice, teachers stuck with power points, which are the most basic “old school” way of teaching a class. Savasci concludes after the study that teachers must increase their “ knowledge and skills about how to use those instructional technologies and help them develop positive attitudes toward information and communication technologies”. This illustrates Cahn and Cahn’s sub-claim that schools and their teachers should branch out to innovative technologies for their students. The intended audience seems to be the generation older than the millennials given the subject and context of the study is very factual, but can definitely be intended for millennials as well because the language used is not difficult relative to other academic studies conducted. The text itself is scholarly and factual with first-hand evidence which appeals to logos for older generations who may not be open to mere inductive reasonings. Not only that, but limitations and possible errors were discussed in the article to build up ethos for the audience. The source has its strength where it is an authentic study with very little subjectivity involved, however it is solely factual and contains no appeal to pathos. This is restrained by the overall idea that the source was a scholarly study rather than an author’s argument. This study relates to the main claim in chapter 9 that public schools are corrupt because it reveals that although millennials may benefit greatly from new gadgets, the teachers who are not millennials don’t know how to use such tools. It makes us think whether implementing the technology and