School curriculum Ted Talk

        Jamhavi Gangisetti’s Ted Talk discusses the flaw of the school systems and how a student's intelligence is measured by numbers. Jamhavi mentions what the creator of standardized testing says about his own creation, “Intelligence is too broad of a subject to be determined by standardized testing” (Ted Talk, 2019). This flaw is degrading adolescents  because they may learn differently than the way the curriculum teaches. Jamhavi talks about a way to possibly fix this flaw with the removal of technology in the classroom. Jamhavi does acknowledge how beneficial technology is for communication and possibly even learning, but she states, “If we are spending so much time on technology outside of school then why bring it into school” (Ted Talk, 2019). In the Ted Talk Jamhavi states how technology takes away from the person's experience with the physical world, which is the majority of life's interactions (Ted Talk, 2019). The point Jamhavi gets to is the real reason we go to school, “The real reason we go to school is to solve problems and overcome them” (Ted Talk, 2019). The idea of collaboration and physical communication is something that needs to be enforced into the school systems to teach kids life skills that will carry them throughout their lives. The most successful people in the world are those who can take the information they learn in school and translate it into a job/reality. The difficult part is that kids are required to learn problem solving skills through solving a quadratic formula and are ridiculed when they struggle to make this translation.