Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination, Robert Compton on C-SPAN
December 25, 2008 in Collaborative.Work.Environment, Cyber.Nurse, Cybermissiology, Different.Abilities, Distributed.Digital.Enterprise, Distributed.Education, Environmental.Tourists, Future.of.NPOs, Health.Over.IP, Interoparency, Project.Net-Work, Technology.Nashville, Technotarian.Guild, Telework.Tennessee, Ubiquity, Verde.Ventures, eNews No Comments »Text from C-SPAN, links mine: Robert Compton talked about his documentary Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination (Youtube Trailer here),
which compares and contrasts the education experiences of six students;
two from each of the countries of India, China, and the United States.
Video clips were shown as he talked about the statistics on the amount
of time spent in the classroom, the influence of the students' parents
on their decisions to pursue a certain career, and the degree to which
those choices impact their free time during their high school years.
Two million minutes is roughly four years, the amount of time high
school students have to prepare for higher education and their careers.
Mr. Compton talked about the importance of education to competing in
the new global economy and that people in other countries took it much
more seriously. He said that although many middle and high schools were
using his video, schools of education had rejected any need to learn
about the educational systems in competing countries.
Venture capitalist Robert Compton's travels to India in 2005 and
2006 laid the groundwork for his decisions to author a blog, publish a
book called Blogging Through India, and produce the documentary.