Kids Can't Compute/ A Conversation With A 'Bad' Teacher

        Mike Elgan talks about how people think that this generation is considered to be "tech savvy" simply because they are born into the technological boom.  This certainly isn't so.  We say that adults aren't aware of how to use technological devices, but they actually do.  When computers were first released, a lot of memorization went into doing the smallest task.  Whatever a person wanted the computer to do, it had to manually be done with the keyboard.  Now, technological devices do all of the memorizing and all of the work.  Everything is as easy a click of a button or the swipe of a finger.  This generation depends solely on the device all while benefiting nothing at all.  To be "tech savvy" in today's time means to actually know how technical devices are working and how they are being operated.  This generation must know how to work technical devices in order to get jobs and be part of the working force.  They will no longer be able to depend on technology doing all of the work if they are unaware of how to it computes.  This will continue to grow into an even greater problem because kids will become dependent on technology.  The only solution is to technically educate our children.
        Hana Maruyama interviewed John Owens on his experience as a writing teacher at "Latinate Institute".  Owens had been an author for three decades, but his education career had ended in less than one year.  He was considered a 'bad' teacher by his principal "Ms. P" because he refused to attend an all expense paid conference trip.  Instead, he wanted to stay with his students and continue teaching on those days, but "Ms. P" considered that to be "noncompliance."  Owens expressed how the school was not beneficial to the students because the administration focused on passing them instead of making sure they were learning.  Students were not taken serious and Owens was deeply heart broken.  Owens' book, "Confessions of a Bad Teacher:  The Shocking Truth From the Front Lines of American Public Education," was wrote in hopes of parents and communities standing up and demanding that the carelessness of the administration be stopped.