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August 12, 2011 at 1:13 pm #24180
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GuestQualcomm, is not such a little, company, in fact they will experience huge growth with their new universal telecommunications chipset that will embrace all of the different communication protocols used by mobile phones. In fact Qualcomm has invested heavily in High Tech High. Their founder Erwin Jacobs says that our education systems needs to produce more engineers, so that he does not have to import them from abroad. If you walk the halls of Qualcomm, you will see foreign names on most of the office doors.
edited by dlau on 8/12/2011August 13, 2011 at 4:49 am #24181GuestSpeaking of Qualcomm, I've had a wild ride with my Qualcomm stock in both the pre and post dot com era. But back to the subject of preparing students with a global perspective: While Asian students do out proform in math and science, their exam-centered education system has created a workforce that is more adept at imitation than innovation. Our vision in the Leadership Training Class at ECHS is to add the innovative component that is so vital for success in a global market. Creativity is closely connected to passion; both are contigious conditions that the students must "catch".
August 13, 2011 at 6:27 am #24182GuestI agree, and that is what we can provide them with
August 13, 2011 at 2:41 pm #24183GuestThat's right, I think we should train and empower Creative talents, and to help Asia and Chinese Students to transform themselves from Imitation students to Creative Learners, it is also part of our goal for the International Leadership training class at Escondido Charter High School.
August 14, 2011 at 6:41 am #24184GuestKen: Very interesting post about SDSU. We learned at the China Cultural Center in Irvine last year that Mandarin has surpassed other languages in popularity, as parents are wanting their children to have a leg up in the global marketplace. I have several students from Berlin here this week before USC begins, and they've just completed a cross country tour from New York to California. We had an interesting chat about the USC-US China Institute Summer Residential Program. It seems that one of them is being received by a Chinese student at USC next week, and she will be his "guide" for the semester. He is now highly motivated to include China and East Asia as he completes his international business courses. I found it interesting that he found many families in NYC are hiring Chinese nannies so that their children will be bi-lingual and fluent in English as well as Chinese. I thought I'd research this, and found it's been a trend for some time http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4616472.stm.
We spoke about having him learn Mandarin and I wanted to share a language website I find very valuable, and free of charge - it provide immersion courses in many languages, and Mandarin is one of them. http://www.livemocha.com. This is an awesome site for anyone who has the discipline to go through a self paced language course.
As for Qualcomm and other US companies, the managements are very concerned about the lack of STEM skills in K12 and just cannot find US talent to fill many of their positions. I agree with Wayne about empowering creative talents, for all kids; the ability to participate in developing the Escondido Charter High School International Program will hopefully be available to many kids over time.
August 14, 2011 at 7:30 am #24185GuestIt has been a popular trend for more schools to start Mandarin Chinese programs at secondary levels. However, only a very small group of students and parents are taking advantage of the availability of the program. I think the main issues behind it are the lack of interest and support from parents. Maybe time is the cure of the issues. As China continues to grow economically, more parents will realize the importance of learning the language and everything else about the country.
One thing I was very surprised at when I first came to Unites States was how closed and narrow-minded when it comes to learn and travel internationally. Regardless what a prominent international influence America is to the rest of the world, many Americans seriously are all about the communities they are in. There is nothing wrong about focusing on one's community at all. Actually I love this part that everyone cares about his or her community and get involved in all kinds of activities to make it better. I just don't understand when not many students show interests to the Chinese exchange program our school has which allows students to go to China to learn and travel for only the cost of their flight.August 28, 2011 at 6:26 pm #24186GuestArana, what are STEM skills?
DylisAugust 30, 2011 at 2:32 am #24187GuestDear Dylis:
STEM is a government initiative to improve Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Skills in education. Here is one of many links on STEM: http://www.stemedcoalition.org/
Hope this helps,
AranaAugust 30, 2011 at 2:32 am #4247Rob_Hugo@PortNW
KeymasterTeam-My first morning back I'm performing my husbandly duties (taking out the trash. . .what were you thinking?) and I start up a conversation with my neighbor who lives in the house behind me. We've had friendly chit-chat before; his daughter graduated from high school with my son, and I told him I'd been out of town at a course learning more about China. He tells me travels to China a lot on business (he works for a little communications company called Qaulcomm), and that his daughter, who has spent the last two summers in China, is majoring in International Business with an emphasis on China at San Diego State. He is also on the board of advisors for the Business School at SDSU because of his China experience (Joe--I can see the gears turning from here). I told him I was interested in planting the seed to get a Mandarin course started at the high school, and since he is the parent of a child in the district I think I can leverage his experience and desire to push towards a chinese languages course being offered at CHS. More to follow. . . . .
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