Why and How our Schools Need to be Saved

SOS Classroom Summer 2009Edwin Choy

education is stuck in manual

students today would much rather…

go on Wikipedia…

than go to the Library

go on Youtube…

than go to class

if facebook were a country it would be

the fourth largest in the world

students would

rather be online

would rather learn online

yet the internet is a disorganized place to learn

there are over 4 billion unique publicly accessed

websites in the world

only 6 percent have educational material

in 2002 Nintendo invested more

than $140 million in Research and

Development

the US Government spent

half as much on Research and Innovation in Education

public education

continues to

struggle to keep up

public education in Los Angeles is

struggling just as much

in the Summer of 2009,

LAUSD cut all summer school programs for grades K-8

225,000 children in LA take summer school every year

what alternatives do parents have?

-hire costly tutors

-enroll their students

in expensive private programs

-purchase boring workbooks

its even harder now for parents

to get free or low cost support for their children’s

education

the SOS Classroom

A collection of online resources for grades K-8

-Comprehensive and complete; covers all areas of the elementary and middle school curriculum

-Fun and easy to access; webpage built on Pageflakes technology, easy for anyone to navigate

-Informative and appealing; animations, games, fun characters, and videos makes learning interesting for kids

the SOS CLASSROOM brings education into the

Digital Age

this collection of resources is just a jumping off point…

the SOS project depends on crowdsourcing to:-support the educational needs of students-use social bookmarking to organize online education-create an ever expanding online educational index-teach students and their parents how to

perpetuate their own education

the SOS CLASSROOM is more sustainable truly public education