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Sir Ken Robinson - Changing Paradigms In this video, Sir Ken, is talking alot about how kids today do not see any sense in going to school. They are too distracted by all of the available technology around them. In a way, I agree with him. I have had students that did not understand why they had to go to school. They could never see where they were going to be using the science, social studies, and even the math they were learning. I think as educators that it is a huge part of our job to make what student's are learning the classroom relevent to their everyday lives. If they cannot make the connection between what they are learning in the classroom and its usefulness outside of the classroom, this frame of mind will only continue growing and more and more students will continue dropping out of school. Those that do attend through graduation will not seek out higher education because they do not see the use it has to him. Educators have to work to change this thought process now.