From this video, it is obvious that students in China and India are surpassing the intellegence of students here in the United States. I think that this can be explained by different cultural values in each country; families in the United States obviously stress that their children perform well in school but they want them to be well-rounded in other aspects of their lives such as in the arts and sports. Because technology is always changing and updating, people today have to constantly be learning and upgrading to new systems. Being resistant to change is very hard in today's world. That being said, I think change is part of human nature. We are very inquisitive and always trying things in new ways so I think that they changes in information processing are improving our lives. But these new methods of communication have also made today's world more impersonal and cold; some people think that this is detracting from our lives while others think that this is an improvement.
The quote by former Secretary of Education Richard Riley was something that I'd heard before...."We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't exist yet, using technologies that haven't yet been invented, in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet." This is really meaningful to me as an engineering student as once I graduate school, I will continuously have to adapt to new technologies that are being invented.
Pretty much every topic that we covered in class this semester can relate to this video. India and China have really high birth rates which ties into overpopulation, family roles and relationship shows how different cultures have different values. Obviously globalization is one of the main themes in this video because without globalization a lot of the technologies that we have in this world wouldn't be around because it takes such a huge collective of people to generate these ideas and constantly improve on other people's inventions.
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