Nora Flanagan: What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education | TED
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The abrupt shift to online learning due to COVID-19 rocked the US education system, unearthing many of the inequities at its foundation. Educator Nora Flanagan says we can reframe this moment as an opportunity to fix what's long been broken for teachers, students and families -- and shares four ways schools can reinvent themselves for a post-pandemic world.
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I'm a korean middle school student .
Today, I watched this video, I sympathized with the word of Nora Flanagan.
Because most students take standardized tests and spend more than 20% of their year preparing for tests. Because test scores become our values. And I feel very sorry for this education. After watching this video, I realized how much the teachers are interested in this problem and are trying to improve it.
(p.s. I express our gratitude and respect to all teachers around the world.)
As a teacher I could not agree more. This is why I have been adapting my teaching methods for what my students seem to need. There is more emphasis on how students feel than learning from a book in my classroom.
Thank you!!
She spoke true and good. Those words hold meaning, value and power. Thst was an amazing TED talk and she is a brave woman. And I agree with her. Some of those ideas can be implemented everywhere. Not just Amwrica but Europe and other parts of the world to. But it is true what they say. Sometimes you just need an Idea and will to change the world.
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I agree with her fully and support her spirit. As a teacher I feel the same way. The stakes are so high.
Thank you for this. I forwarded this to my oldest son's high school that I recently withdrew him from to attain his GED. He is a bright student and in that I mean not just intellectually but emotionally. Our family has struggled previous to covid but became so much more obvious what was important and meaningful to our lives than that what wasn't. All of the "success" of grades did not matter when it came down to it. Emotional well being and authentic happiness did. And we did not find that in grades or bank accounts. The struggle was real and we found our peace in each other with the help of our community, family, and friends as a whole. God bless. Evolution is happening now. Keep your head up always. This too shall pass. 💕
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I love that she cares about her students. I care about mine too - which is why assessment and having high standards is so important. Telling students that they have skills that they don’t have sets them up for failure. True equity is about making it possible for all students to reach a high bar, not lowering it. Kids deserve a quality education and that means real, measurable progress.
@@melissabodily3675 I absolutely understand why you or any parent would go elsewhere to find the best education possible for your kids! I would too.
I believe in my heart that true equity is about providing an excellent education to ALL children, regardless of the tax base of their district. America should not have a single failing school. If every child had access to an excellent public education, what an equalizer that could be! IMO, providing that excellent education for all is the greatest civil rights and equity issue of our time.
I agree with many of the speaker’s points, but lowering standards or choosing not to measure success/failure in achieving our academic goals for them isn’t the answer. We need compassion, but there is nothing compassionate about passing students without skills or knowledge for the next course in sequence. The answer lies in measuring what we intend to measure, learning from our mistakes, teaching the students we have, and providing every student with the opportunity for an affordable, world class public education.
I definitely agree with Option 4. The exams in all of the U.S.A and other countries like the UK are outdated. I don't believe that me and the other students taking exams need to learn absolutely everything in the syllabus. They should teach us the stuff that we really need then teach us the stuff that is truly useful like how to manage your finances, how to get a job etc.
Thank you for your openness and clarity.
I’m so sorry for your and other teacher’s barriers during this terrible time. I completely support everything you have asked for. I’m sorry that your profession has not been rewarded at the levels it deserves.
my highschool was a tiny af school for 100 kids, no restaurant/canteen, no computers, nothing. Except an outside basketball court. Her ideas sound like science fiction to me
It is ridiculous that schools are holding students to standards *designed for normal education.* We are all trying to _survive_ a global pandemic, social unrest, and an *economic collapse,* and yet you expect me to focus on math!?!?
In my place , schools are reopened slowly....
So, you want to undermine an entire generations ability to do math because there's a pandemic? Want to rethink that?
@@BilkaRageerd
First of all, math is not as important as ensuring students mental stability. Second, mathematics past *basic* mental calculations is pointless for the _vast majority_ of people, and should be a subject you willingly opt into.
Third, you cannot burden someone down with weights and expect them to run a mile in the same time. And yet, that is exactly what the public education system is expecting students to do- achieve the same grades when we're just trying to _survive._
I may not have all of the solutions, but just look to countries like Finland if you want to see how schooling *should* be done!
My condolences to the rational people of the United States, who have to fight for things most developed countries take for granted. If you don’t understand that education is the foundation of the economy, as well as the foundation of democracy, you are doomed.
I can’t help but laugh at the fact that I’m considered conservative where I live, and I’d be called a communist in the US for thinking that providing the best possible education for everyone is in everyone’s best interest.
3:50 starts the 4 reasons
Thanks
What year were the Ted talks still good? I want to watch those ones
Its actually really interesting to listen to the other's side opinion on the situation
Hopefully it'll lead to improvements at some point.
As a product of the Chicago public schools I cannot agree more. The broken CPS system is the reason why I have chosen to unschool my son from birth.
Congratulations. I want to do that when I grow up . 🤔 But how are you doing it?
Totally agree and hope people/ governments listen. Wonderful!
No they don’t.
@@jameskulevich8907 I hate to agree, but based on past trends and my own personal experience, it really is the truth. Nobody cares about our needs and our well being. I'm a junior in high school who's had straight A's for the past 5 years of my educational career and I'm failing this year, because if our government isn't even going to try to fix the problems in our schools and our society, problems which have become all the more apparent amidst this virus, then why should I waste any time on them.
"Librarian in every school now." Yes! ...Many excellent points made, and I love your purple hair color as well ✨👏✨👏✨👏
This is my English teacher
Oh please lady, we do more than that to engage parents. The parents that want to be engaged, are. Those that do not, they don’t return your calls, emails. You show up at their house and you get five minutes of their time if they are home. Please do not tell me that we do not try to engage parents. That is a lie
Connect the money to the student and watch the market solve problems the government has found intractable for decades.
1000% this
Pretty much all of this could be achieved very quickly with school choice. Small and independent schools, unchained by decades of failed bureaucracy can pivot to meet changing needs much quicker than the status quo. Even if it isn't vouchers for private schools or public charters, moving control to the school level and allowing parents direct say in the school (by virtue of choosing which school works best for their family) will bring about reform faster than any good intentioned effort by the same organizations that broke the system in the first place.
Great great talk with beautiful amazing ideas. Divine intervention act is acting . Thank you, bless you . All your dreams come true.
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Your exactly what this world doesn't need; another lost religious fanatic
That's very touching! ♥️
That is an amazing meaning. Hope the others understand it well
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The isolation of covid life still feels weird to me. Imagine an EMPTY Wrigley Stadium? Not many get to have that experience, peculiar as it may be. Makes me think of the genie that always foils the wish. Dear Genie, I wish I could address thousands by speaking in Wrigley Stadium! Who could have predicted one would have to request the physical presence of the thousands!? Prevailing despite covid!!
GREAT Ted talk!
this has been much easier and more fun to watch!! Also great advice as usual!!!!
Rural areas may differ. Yes?
Brilliant!! Loved this so much! ❤️👏👏👏
Yeh def need school choice. Funding should follow kids. Not buildings.
Insane how these schools have made so much more money...hiring more workers for more union dues..and also not increased teacher salaries at all...while also having horrible education
I made a playlist.
Someone had to say it. Fellow Chicagoan.
Oh, oh, that just hit me. I didn't think about the fact that it's a more than likely that any given child knew someone who died of Covid.
Online learning is better for some. And that is a good thing.
I invite you to watch the new video that talks about ambition
Which 4 ways?
Sounds good in theory in a Ted talk but it won't do anything in the practical real world sadly.
human interaction is golden, full stop
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always wondered why some people dont like socialism.
What a nothing salad I thought this was going to be a good video but I was wrong
Lower your expectations and you'll never be disappointed
Anyone else get Ms.Frizzle vibes from this teacher? ^-^
The idea of engaging the parents is right on, but the equity message falls flat for me. School needs to be practical and pragmatic. It is neither. If you ask the parents what they really want for their kids it will be for them to be healthy, have a good way to make a living and having some friends. These three concepts are all very achievable through school for any community. School from scratch dt com. Give it a look. It lays out a simple way to make school worth going to for anyone.
Thanks Nora l think everyone true
Best background 🔥
Here's an idea, let "the money" follow the kid. If schools continue to fail our kids, they should fail to continue to get the money. Really....eliminate the tests? Because that's how teachers are evaluated too...there are different ways to examine learning, but do people really want doctors that are afraid of testing because primary education did not prepare them? Yes, the stakes are EXTREMELY high! We cannot allow our kids to be failed, AGAIN!!
I hope now have an idea how complex teaching is... how much time is taken to prepare just one lesson. IT equity is an on going challenge - maybe ‘Big Tech’ could intervene hear. Testing is a retrograde step more wholistic ways to show learning.
Are you for real? You don't know what hard work is! Two months extra every year holidays, 6 hour days and a job about as stressful as the average commute to work and you waxing lyrical on how "complex" teaching is? Give me a break
@@neiljohnson8121 you obviously never taught before.
All great ideas, but...the root of the issue is not being struck. The problem started when government took over education over 100 years ago. We don't need to improve the current system, we need new, decentralized methods that allow for individual differences in learning and choice. Centralized, government-run education is antiquated, time to evolve past it.
Waste of my time ... there's no new information here... We all live through this
As a teacher I can't wait to get away from this online teaching nonsense that has isolated our kids, and made them hate learning. Good riddance to bad rubbish, when we get back to normal.
Sure thing. I teach 7th grade. Surely it is better to have students breathing safely at home than to be intubated in a hospital, or at a parent’s funeral.
We will be bad teachers if we let them and their communities get sick or die.
Normal is change, get used to it.
Sir Ken Robinson has some great TED talks💜
Judging by the thought processes and rationale of some of our 'learned' colleagues, incarceration of our young will be around for a long time... However, let this fact sink in... In the UK, 4 healthy under 19s have passed away FROM Covid in the last 12 months, and according to ROSPA, an individual is 16 times more likely to die fromhaving an accident in the home than dying WITH Covid....While ALL deaths are tragic, let's apply some common sense... and CHANGE this nonsense for the better. 'CHANGE is good. Get used to it'.
You sound close minded for a teacher and fearful of change. Perhaps you should take this time and rethink your profession.
@@Koyasi78 I've thought. Thank you. Maybe you should look at what learning in isolation does to young minds. My advice to you would be the same advice you gave to my good self. 2 caveats however. Don't pursue a career as a psychologist. Or a careers advisor. Warmest regards from a true educator.
Housing?
Lol, so virtuous and full of compassion yet despite children being the least likely demographic to suffer during the "epidemic" and practically guaranteed to survive if ever infected we are all meant to applaud you for managing to overcome the daunting task of turning on a webcam and speak into it while on conference mode?
Despite already enjoying 2 months a year completely free from work compared to everyone else in the country and a six hour day not twelve hours like the average Joe you still want us to applaud how dedicated and steadfastly resolute you all are when, from what I have seen in the media recently, your Union has basically refused to order you back to work despite it being an occupational hazard of working as a teacher in public schools that working with 20+ kids in a classroom puts you in a miniscule amount of extra "risk". Nurses and doctors understand that their occupation is obviously going to mean increased risk if a pandemic should break out, why don't teachers?
I cannot see a single reason why we should heap praise on you for refusing to do your job citing a near non-existent threat of what essentially boils down to strong case of the flu should you ever become infected.
Do your job and get back to work, you have no idea what hard work is compared to the average working class family.
It revealed a lot of problems. But nothings going to be done about it. It’s always just talk. The school system will “never” be changed.
Sorry , I know it's wrong, but the ink I can't get by. Tried to listen but it's an oddity, to me, I don't hear all I see is ink . Not sure what she said Chicago, wiping tables...wish I did not think less of inked people. Sad
ink is pretty epic
That we would be very quickly willing to sacrifice our futures.
Small class sizes? What about a return to the K-8, one room schoolhouse? Where relationship between teacher and students mattered and not just a 45 minute clock check
I dunno I feel like I’ll be a dunce hat kid that gets hit by the ruler lmao
It's control.
Great video
One should support via subscription to new youtubers like me.......
Who are feared of the result.
Hey
Nice video 👌
This was filmed in June 2020...why did it take 8 months for this to finally hit UA-cam??
Not every single ted talk gets posted. They happen all over the world.
@@RantKid, yes, but I'm clearly referring to a TED Talk that DID get posted. Seems to reason that if you're gonna post a TED Talk, it shouldn't take 8 months to do so.
@@InMotionForAMillion oversights happen 🤷🏻♂️ I'm sure they feel so ashamed they didn't serve to your standards 😂
@@RantKid, they should call it “Theodore Talks”......just so it takes a little bit longer. 😉
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Purple hair and tattoos, Miss Krapopilis during online learning
hahahahaha, nailed it
Imagine invalidating someone's teaching abilities because of their appeanrance. It's literally 2021, get over yourself.
@@matchalatte73 you must be one of those people with no sense of humor
@@dennis-qu7bs no man, I think you nailed her with the purple hair and tattoos and she can't think of an appropriate criticism other than trying to brand you as ignorant lolol
@@dennis-qu7bs you're hilarious ... ad hominem appearance dissing ... super clever !
Welcome to the real world, the rest of us have been doing this for more than a year already... At least you’ll have examples to follow if things get messy. Americans really do live in a sealed bubble
There are a spare few videos that should be a time capsule of this epoch.
This should be one.
like for online exams !!
The US is 125th in the world in our literacy rate, how about at least do your job well before you try to solve the housing crisis....
Housing and food security, healthcare (including mental health) and childcare, as well as focusing on equity are the foundation to being a country that values families. Fact: people can't learn when they are food and home insecure. The brain can only focus on survival. When these issues are addressed, then real learning can happen. When countries value families over corporations, then you'll see a real change in our education system. That's the issue with the US - people are not valued as humans but only as commodities.
@@justbeegreen wait so in the 124 other countries in the world that have better literacy rate are food or housing insecurity worse than the us...I'm not sure you have really thought through your argument. Do I need to list some of these countries for you?
Their charter isn’t anything other than teaching and education
It revealed that, wait a minute, I’m at home with a whole world of knowledge at my hands and I would rather play video games on the background on Zoom and do everything else and some of them didn’t bother to show up, even though they sit in front of a small and big screen to play that video game in the background! Technology and teachers did its part, the parents and kids, dropped the ball in a IT, sewer! Smh!
Ted just let's anyone talk in a nutshell
That looks more like a sports stadium than a nutshell.
BRAVA, BETTER FIT YEY
When I watch this, I feels like, they afraid to change. 🤔
Im madly in love with this person
I think the most important thing is, it revealed to parents what kids are being taught. Very damaging indoctrinating ideals that are dangerous. Hopefully that gets removed, but Cali seems to be full speed on aboard on it.
love the heart you show!
hair and ink look damn fine
kudos
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Librarians? Does that mean a return to the classics of literature?
The funny thing is "librarians" usually refers to older individuals who would probably be the very people most susceptible to misinformation online lol. I think what she wants is a modern "librarian" aka "Fact checker". Shouldn't teachers be the ones teaching children how to think and question what they're reading? To always assume misinformation and verify things themselves with good resources? Especially from "news" sources.
Librarians tend to be experts on effectively researching any given topic. Kids seem to not be taught how to properly research and think critically about what it is that they are researching. They are instead being taught how to find the right answer and nothing more.
Middle age woman in skinny pants showing off ink and purple hair is hard to take serious. Get rid of the powerful unions, reduce administrative overhead, get the federal government out of the education business and so many problems go away.
She makes a good point about standardized tests.
She's missing the mark regarding grades. Competitive grading leads to more successful people, and better education. Don't take my word for it though, look at countries with competitive grading systems; I hate to credit China for it but it's an example. But pushing people to improve, we're going to get further than pandering.
It looked like the Ted Talk from a purple haired woman would include "equity" over equality, but I watched the whole video before commenting and was right.
When you talk about a competitive grading systems, I'm assuming you're talkin about a system that has more of a focus and value towards a ranking system with the students. That kind of culture, I don't think, leads to more successful people. A competitive grading system creates pressure to want to do well cuz if you rank in the top of your school that can guarantee you to get into good college which will then lead you to be able to get a good job. So you're more motivated to want to study more and that's why places with that type of culture, like China, rank higher in terms of education. But for the people who don't rank the top of their school grades will basically mean nothing to them outside of school. The students work hard to memorize the information they're given but for those who don't rank at the top despite all of their hard work they're grades won't be the thing that led to their success. And that's not to mention how systems that are overly competitive can create too much pressure on young kids and that could lead to a lot of unhealthy mental health issues for them into adulthood.
Hey Ted how about you interview a parent not a teacher. Please stop portraying the teachers as front line workers, heroes. They’re not even close to heroes. They just hide behind their contracts. And this person now to come up and tell me all this through emotions like she lived something different than us. Hey, we r all going through this! Teachers just make me sick. Such disappointment they are to kids!
Education in the US is the laughing stock of the world. EVERY year, the indoctrination of what they tell the teachers to teach and How to teach it (like the Common Core crap; Thanks to Bill Gates).... Standardized testing is a COMPLETE waste of time and energy and money BECAUSE Today's teachers do not TEACH anymore. My kids would be given a set of worksheets on Monday and be told it was due on Friday, plus whatever kind of "project" might be assigned.
I come from a long line of teachers and my step-grandfather worked in Austin for the Education System and he was Always complaining about how Hard it was for him to get The Bigger Picture across to the ones who made the final decisions for what and how the kids were going to learn in Texas. It's ludicrously embarrassing. I also know that many other states are in the same boat. It's extremely disheartening.
I have one kid, a Junior in high school, and a kid who I pulled Out of school in the middle of his Sophomore year. He'd be a Senior this year.
My son has learned WAY more from Unschooling than he did from ANY class he ever took in school. Brick and mortar schools are a Complete joke!!
My mother was an English teacher and could NOT retire fast enough in 2009. She saw how the newer teachers coming in since the early 2000s and was getting paid what took HER to get paid OVER 30 YEARS. It was beyond belief!
Plus, WHY do does our government hold professional athletes/actors in Sky High standards as far as how much money THEY get paid, and Still have the AUDACITY to say that "Education is SO important!" ???? HOW!!
IF our education SERIOUSLY mattered in this country, we wouldn't be one of the LOWEST ranked systems in the world. PERIOD. I'M the one teaching MY kids the things that MATTER in the Real World.... NOT this "you need to have good grades crap to get a degree that you'll never use" crap. My son, is teaching HIMSELF about Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Diseases, How to work as a team, Make Financial Decisions, Diversifying Funds/Manpower/Hours/Problem Solving/etc, Working on Cars/Trucks, Building Computer Systems, Cooking, Home Responsibilities, Self Care, Self Expression, Self Defense....
My daughter, I teach her Whatever I can when I get to see her.... SEE THE DIFFERENCE????
Late stage capitalism 😔
Lol this is about government schools it has nothing to do with capitalism. I bet you went to public school 🤣🤣🤣
@@wallpello_1534 Private schools are a product of late stage capitalism, rationing education for the rich. lul
How are government-run schools anything resembling capitalism?
👏👏👏 Bravo 👏👏👏
Why not tat her face, too?
would look jarring probably
Unsubscribing from TED. Been waiting for years to hear something consistently valuable but it's turned into... america. Hollow words and missed points.
Wow that was a good Social Engineering speech 🥴
Based off the comments conservatives struggle to extract meaning from things.
Conservatives? I’m not a conservative and I strongly disagree with what she’s saying! First of all she’s not even saying anything different from what we r all living. I’m not sure what was the point of Ted even putting this on their platform? What was the point of this? What did u learn from this woman today? All I see is self patting and self recognition. What did u see?
Lol, tell me, why is it that despite their ridiculously contrived view of the world and being so unbelievably gullible and easily-led resulting in their total indoctrination to Cultural Marxist ideology that you cannot understand that other people have differing opinions based on actual life experience, their unbiased education which encouraged them to question everything and never enter any debate until hearing both sides of any argument and basically a balanced and open-minded disposition?
I can tell from your one sentence reply that you are a Millennial who is completely oblivious to the undeniable fact that your entire education was a sham full of purple-haired, man-hating "liberal" lesbian teachers ramming Cultural Marxist dogma down your throat and giving you the most profoundly flawed and infested Marxist propaganda nonsense with critical race theory and hatred of white people the underlying tone, the way ahead for the ideal Utopian dream of Global Marxism.
We understand everything, it is you who understands nothing. If you ever learned what irony and hypocrisy actually meant then maybe you might be able to see the woods from the trees pone day, but I seriously doubt it.
can't stop to see her tatooes..
What COVID-19 revealed about US governments would be even more interesting!
Want to see my "C-ov-er-i-d-one-9-&-Co" collection?
if noone studing in US schools then teacher don't need to wear bulletproof vest and handgun
Teachers should only worry about making learning as easy as possible, not politics or their own jobs.
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performance art; and not very well put together. But at least she wears it.
-LOL so many tattoos? is it healthy?
Ink is cool. The story... bla bla bla...
Get Government out of school and God back in, problems will be solved over night.
Wake up it’s a dream
Downthumbing because in the real world any learner would have stopped listening because the point was not concise. For an educator to make this mistake is not okay.
I can't accept her as a good role model for children being tattooed as she is
But no one cared about the tattoos other than you man, everyone cared about the message that she is trying to Deliver to the world
Judgmental pile.
nice "I work in a call center" tattoos.
I want to be a gamer
👏👏👏 Bravo 👏👏👏