Monday, June 27, 2016

Jay Walking on Geography

Why we need to teach geography.mov

12 comments:

Harris Khan said...

Very astonishing how some people don't know where the PANAMA canal are! Also makes me wonder if the education system in the U.S. is not as good as I thought. I believe this shows that the school system should really focus more on geography and demographics as well.

Unknown said...

How funny! I did not know any of those answers either.. Our generation is so embarrassing!!

Francis Suarez ISS1120

Roselynn Ruiz said...

I really hope this is spread out to the educational system. It has to be enforced for us to know where certain countries, or states are. It's sad what lack we have in geography, when geography is involved in our everyday lives.

Unknown said...

Wow this video was very interesting. I was surprised at how this generation of seniors that we're going on to college did not know the answers to those questions. I mean I didn't know a couple but they could not answer them at all

Unknown said...

Although this was funny, if you really think about it, it's sort of sad how so many people do not know about geography. I think this should be spread around more for our future generations to see and learn from

Unknown said...

This video surprised me and made me laugh at the same time. It shows how little education is to some students and don't take it seriously.

Unknown said...

This video was very painful to watch. It really saddens me that young minds don't really care to learn as much as they could

Jason Madrid - ISS1120MDCKENDALL said...

Very sad to watch. I remember my 8th grade geography teacher (1998) assigned a project where we all had to pick a state. I chose Alaska due to the history involving the pipeline. My teacher told me that I would have to choose a state in the United States. I looked at her and said "Im very sorry but Alaska is not a foreign country, its a state just like us."

Unknown said...

This video was funny but it was a bit eye opening as to the school systems in AMerica

Unknown said...

got a few good laughs

Damaris Francis said...

goodness gracious...i'm just as bad.

Patch said...

This reinforced the stereotype that Americans are horrible with geography. However, I do wonder how it would have been different had Jay asked students from some northern states with traditionally better school systems than southern states. I think it would still be bad, but maybe not quite as bad. I don't think a lot of people comprehend that US public schools are funded, at least in part, by property taxes and so school systems can vary greatly.
I travel A LOT and it blows my mind how many of my well educated friends sometimes don't know where I travelled. Example: This past May I went to Kosovo and people asked me what Kosovo was, as in, was it a country, a city, what? UGH!