1. Why and How our Schools Need to be Saved SOS Classroom Summer 2009 Edwin Choy

2. education is stuck in manual

3. students today would much rather…

4. go on Wikipedia… than go to the Library

5. go on Youtube… than go to class

6. if facebook were a country it would be the fourth largest in the world

7. students would rather be online would rather learn online

8. yet the internet is a disorganizedplace to learn

9. there are over 4 billion unique publicly accessed websites in the world only 6 percent have educational material

10. in 2002 Nintendo invested more than $140 million in Research and Development the US Government spent halfas much on Research and Innovation in Education

11. public education continues to struggle to keep up

12. public education in Los Angeles is struggling just as much

13. 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

14. what alternatives do parents have? -hire costlytutors -enroll their students in expensive private programs -purchase boring workbooks

15. its even harder now for parents to get free or low cost support for their children’s education

16. 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

17. the SOS Classroom brings education into the Digital Age

18. 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 this collection of resources is just a jumping off point…

19. the SOS Classroom is more sustainable truly public education