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My High School Granddaugher Thought Alaksa was an Island.

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Can you blame her? Look at the map our kids see most often:

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She isn't the only one. See Alaska floating in the upper left? LOL!

But she cann spel beter than mi.
 
Most kids think Alaska and Hawaii are south of the US.....because....

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It's really sad that she's in high school and still doesn't have an accurate picture of the world or US map in her head.
 
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It's sad how little comprehensive history, geography, and other useful subjects are being effectively taught in schools at any level these days, including college.
 
chuckiechan said:
Can you blame her? Look at the map our kids see most often:

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She isn't the only one. See Alaska floating in the upper left? LOL!



But she cann spel beter than mi.
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To be fair, how often is the location of Alaska brought up in conversation these days?

Unless you are watching "Alaska Monsters"
 
Tigerace117 said:
To be fair, how often is the location of Alaska brought up in conversation these days?

Unless you are watching "Alaska Monsters"
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I believe that is the point. ;)
 
AlbqOwl said:
It's sad how little comprehensive history, geography, and other useful subjects are being effectively taught in schools at any level these days, including college.
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My students leave me knowing a massive amount of history and geography. The other teachers in my grade level don't teach either one --- at all. :shock:
 
This is going to sound quaint, but when I was growing up, we had a globe on a pedestal. Libraries did too. Josie, do classrooms have these anymore?

I'm wondering whether they've gone the way of the hard-bound encyclopedia.
 
AlbqOwl said:
It's sad how little comprehensive history, geography, and other useful subjects are being effectively taught in schools at any level these days, including college.
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That's because it's more important to teach them that it's perfectly normal to have two mommies and that condoms are available through the school nurse.
 
nota bene said:
This is going to sound quaint, but when I was growing up, we had a globe on a pedestal. Libraries did too. Josie, do classrooms have these anymore?

I'm wondering whether they've gone the way of the hard-bound encyclopedia.
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I liked the big pull down maps. More pull down stuff over the chalkboard usually meant more fun in class.
 
Josie said:
Most kids think Alaska and Hawaii are south of the US.....because....

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It's really sad that she's in high school and still doesn't have an accurate picture of the world or US map in her head.
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The maker of that map obviously doesn't know where old faithful is either.
 
Josie said:
My students leave me knowing a massive amount of history and geography. The other teachers in my grade level don't teach either one --- at all. :shock:
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Well good for you. But if your political leaning is correct under your user name, you are rare among educators these days. And that is unfortunate.
 
Lutherf said:
That's because it's more important to teach them that it's perfectly normal to have two mommies and that condoms are available through the school nurse.
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For sure, they spend a whole lot of time on things that are not going to be useful when the kids graduate and are out in the real world.
 
Josie said:
My students leave me knowing a massive amount of history and geography. The other teachers in my grade level don't teach either one --- at all. :shock:
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Is the curriculum not set by the state government? We have to follow syllabus points for every subject taught in every school and have a register to prove what we taught each year.
 
Lutherf said:
I liked the big pull down maps. More pull down stuff over the chalkboard usually meant more fun in class.
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In all of my classes it meant spending 30 minutes to try and get the stupid thing to stay down.
 
AlbqOwl said:
It's sad how little comprehensive history, geography, and other useful subjects are being effectively taught in schools at any level these days, including college.
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Depends on the teacher. My students come out knowing tons. We do maps and globes. Over and over. Quizzes and fun searches to see who can find places or things.
 
Carjosse said:
In all of my classes it meant spending 30 minutes to try and get the stupid thing to stay down.
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Today we have data projectors... but can still waste twenty minutes with bad internet.
 
chuckiechan said:
Can you blame her? Look at the map our kids see most often:

View attachment 67212096

She isn't the only one. See Alaska floating in the upper left? LOL!

But she cann spel beter than mi.
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I have had students not know which ocean was the Pacific. When teaching in a beach city in CA.

Students who thought places like Texas were in Europe, etc.
 
nota bene said:
This is going to sound quaint, but when I was growing up, we had a globe on a pedestal. Libraries did too. Josie, do classrooms have these anymore?

I'm wondering whether they've gone the way of the hard-bound encyclopedia.
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I have one globe i use for only my trusted students in the AP class. Kids kept permanent marking globes so we stopped using them. Too expensive.
 
Lutherf said:
I liked the big pull down maps. More pull down stuff over the chalkboard usually meant more fun in class.
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Chalk Boards!!! :lol:
 
Bodhisattva said:
Depends on the teacher. My students come out knowing tons. We do maps and globes. Over and over. Quizzes and fun searches to see who can find places or things.
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I did that with my kids too and with my granddaughter as she wasn't getting near enough schooling in that subject to satisfy me. In geography class in high school, I was getting ready to study for a test that I knew would involve drawing the outline of and placing the major cities in one European country. Something else came up and I wound up not having time to study. So I focused on England--that was back in the days before we said "Great Britain" or "the U.K." It was the only country I would have been able to do competently. Was I ever relieved when the teacher said: "Draw England." :)
 
AlbqOwl said:
I did that with my kids too and with my granddaughter as she wasn't getting near enough schooling in that subject to satisfy me. In geography class in high school, I was getting ready to study for a test that I knew would involve drawing the outline of and placing the major cities in one European country. Something else came up and I wound up not having time to study. So I focused on England--that was back in the days before we said "Great Britain" or "the U.K." It was the only country I would have been able to do competently. Was I ever relieved when the teacher said: "Draw England." :)
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:lol: well done.

My eldest is a learning junkie so we quiz each other a lot.
 
When will people learn?

Public schools are next to useless.

As I said before, I have been to public and private schools and the worst private one was about a thousand times better then the best public one.
 
nota bene said:
This is going to sound quaint, but when I was growing up, we had a globe on a pedestal. Libraries did too. Josie, do classrooms have these anymore?

I'm wondering whether they've gone the way of the hard-bound encyclopedia.
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Google Earth would be a terrific supplement.
 
nota bene said:
This is going to sound quaint, but when I was growing up, we had a globe on a pedestal. Libraries did too. Josie, do classrooms have these anymore?

I'm wondering whether they've gone the way of the hard-bound encyclopedia.
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Yep, we have them. I use it frequently whenever we're talking about a specific area of the world to make sure the kids know where on Earth it is. I also do some geography centers throughout the year where the explore the globe independently.
 
Lutherf said:
I liked the big pull down maps. More pull down stuff over the chalkboard usually meant more fun in class.
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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate those. I can never get them all the way back up or it flies up really quickly and knocks the entire thing off the wall. Ugh. No. I had them taken out of my classroom.
 
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