My 2020 Speech

WALT: We learnt to write a full speech about a topic of our choice, and say it in front of a audience. 

We spent  4 or 5 weeks of creating and practising our speech, there was 11 topic's to choose and chose why online learning is better than face to face learning. I was luckily one of the kids that is going to the Speech competition in Kaitaia.

 this is my speech:            This is the link to the video of me saying my SPEECH     

Ka ora everyone My name is Brendon Dowman and I’m a year 6 student at Mangonui School. This is my argument about why online learning is better than face to face learning. Be warned I like to joke around. Ok why did the chicken cross the road? To hear me talk about his short life. 

Most of my speech is based on lockdown, because in lockdown we did a lot of homeschooling on the internet. That means that kids spent a lot of  time on their devices. But then you would have to go on a class site and do all this pointless stuff, but there are still heaps more advantages on a device than a book or a sheet of paper. 

My first example is erasing, so if you want to erase some words on a device you can just click a button and it's gone. But if you were writing in a book you would have to use a rubber, and then after 300 years of rubbing you can still just see it on your page. Another simple example is typing. It’s 10,000 times easier than writing by hand, and if you have terrible handwriting like me, at least you can read it.  Most children don’t like writing, but put them in front of a keyboard, and they’ll create all sorts of documents.  But don’t take months fidgeting with different fronts and sizes, that’s just time wasting.

Another issue with face to face learning is that sometimes there is a personality clash between the teacher and the learner, because it can be boring when the teacher explains for weeks and weeks about fraction strategies . But again if you put them in front of a device it's easier to work with.   

That was some simple examples of why online learning is easier than face to face learning. I think you have related. Technology is an amazing invention, It completely changed the world! Before my speech is finished I have one last joke. What did the children say when the genius hit the idiot with a book? They said “ ha ha he got hit with knowledge”.  

Thank you for listening to my terrible jokes and my opinion on why online learning is better than face to face learning