What are you waiting for, Superman?

Who hasn’t done their homework and taken the time to see this film? If you havn’t, pledge to see the movie, it will change the way your view our system and more importantly, make you want to do something about changing it.

Surprising Facts on Education and the Future of Technology

We will let the video below do the talking…

Beam me up Teacher!

Last week we brought you some cool technology that makes use of the latest in 3D virtual space by utilizing a combination of 3D goggles, video and sensors.   Today we have something phenomenal that may one day allow for a child in Vietnam to attend a lectures from Ivy league PHD’s without leaving their own village.

Watch the video below, our mind is exploding at the possibilities of usage in education and training…

2 MM

It is said that a child has 2 million minutes from the beginning to the end of highschool…Two Million Minutes to build their intellectual foundation…Two Million Minutes to prepare for college and ultimately career…Two Million Minutes to go from a teenager to an adult.  How do North American students use these 2 million minutes in comparison to the rest of the world?  The documentary 2 Million Minutes explores this very question.

This hour long film takes a deeper look at how the three superpowers of the 21st Century – China, India and the United States – are preparing their students for the future. The film follows 6 students, a boy and a girl from each of these 3 countries, and composes a global snapshot of education, from the viewpoint of kids preparing for their future.

Although this film falls outside the age bracket that Pop Lock and Learn is focused, it does serve as an interesting overview of the rights, wrongs and difference of mindsets in the educational strategies and policies embedded in each of the modern day super powers.  The only insurance policy for future society with a thriving populace is the priority that a country places on educating its future generations.