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a project in a particular field. Technology is already sweeping through classrooms as
more and more products are being created and designed to enhance education. New
technology is quickly replacing the role of textbooks and with adaptive technology
assisting individuals at every skill level, students are better equipped to learn on their
own and at their own pace.
Today’s teachers have a lot to do, from lesson and assignment planning, to teaching,
grading and giving hundreds of students their attention. But students believe they are
being forced to strict timelines and deadlines and live under the rule of ‘fear’ instead of
curiosity. Today’s educational system puts less focus on individual self-development.
Students don’t often understand why they are learning the things that they are learning,
which can very easily make certain students feel purposeless in the face of their
personal ambitions.
That’s why so many people, including myself, claim to be “bad at math”. It is not
because we lack math genes, but because we rushed through the earlier stages of
math without fully understanding them. The only way to survive becomes memorization
or doing what your teacher wants you to do without learning what it all means.
To make things worse, teachers assign homework. They don’t realize that it only works
when students actually do it. But many students HATE homework. To do your
homework, you must think about what you’re doing, perform the task at hand
and reflect through the entire process. From my point of view, homework tends
to be uninspiring.
With that being said, we could fix these issues and take education to a new level, which
would make it more exciting, fun and practical.
Dr. Judy Will, Neurologist & Educator says:
“A student must care about new information or consider it important for it to be stored as
a long-term memory. Memories with personal meaning are most likely to become
relational and long-term memories available for later retrieval.”  
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