PLN 12

I read "Challenging the Flow" by David Warlick. In this article, many controversial topics are aroused. For example, the main topic he wrote about was an author who approached writing in a much more different way than many other authors that we see in libraries today. That authors writing was seemingly confusing until you started understanding the points of view at which he was approaching characters. This is relevant to education because if teachers had the gut to go against the flow to find different useful methods that could be used in the classroom, then maybe we would have a more outstanding education program in the United States. I feel if Obama wants us as a nation to be higher ranked on the education chart, maybe adding days on to the week is not the answer. Maybe the answer is changing the way the students are learning. This matters to the world because if people in many different industries decided to change the way they go about things, the economy would be good. I feel if someone went against the flow as to look at things with a more positive eye, that would have a beneficial effect on society and the economy. I do agree that to a certain extent knowing about the bad things occurring right now is ok for a certain amount of awareness. I think that we need to go against the flow by being a positive light in a world of negative darkness. Lastly, this applies to me because while I am going to a high school in which many bad things are going on, it is good to go against the flow because if I choose to be a part in all the inapropriate junk that occures in schools, I will just be another student. But if I go against the flow as a positive influence, I will be a role model for many other students.

PLN 11

I read "2020 Vision" by Karl Fisch. His pridictions make him sound like a bit of a philosopher.In this he talked about what the future has in hold for us and how drastically education shall be changed in the future. This matters to the world because all these changes are happening in the world and in some of the things he talked about, environmentally the world will be altered. This matters to me because I will be growing up in this world of change and I will be a part of it. When it talked of all the electronic advancements, it is scary some of the things that now seem like dreams that will be probably a reality in the future. This matters to eduducation more than anything because it talked about all the changes that teachers and students deel with. He said that by 2017 there will be no grades and the only thing recorded will be student advancement instead of performance. Free laptops and other things will be given out for free and the whole educational program we have today will be old fashioned history!

PLN 10

I read, "Fort Collins woman missing under suspicious circumstances"by The Denver Post.(No specific author was listed.)This made me wonder why we have so much bad stuff going on in the world. Why can't we all feel safe in a society in which nobody gets hurt by another citizen. This matters to the world because we need a safer society. This matters to me because I do not want to grow up in a world that is crumbling down due to people who have a problem with staying as a law abiding citizen. I think that if our society keeps going in the direction it has been headed for the last 10 years, then I think by the time I am a llegal adult the world will be a chaotic one with out any morals or ethics. This matters to education because when we learn about the mistakes people made in the past, and we don't learn from them, our children's children's children will be learning about a war that will happen in 20 years from our stupid world's mistakes!

PLN 9

In Tony Wagner's "Rigor Redefined", he communicates the bad changes made in the world today. He talks about how back then you improved yourself in stages, but now one is constantly trying to improve himself because the business world has sped up so significantly. It takes toime until someone can be a philanthropist. It is crazy how true this is. I believe that this matters to the world because the world is speeding up so fast that people are starting to fall behind. This matters to me because if the world is constantly speeding up, I do not want to be the one who has fallen behind by the time I am an adult. This matters to education because he talks about how students are becoming lazy as technology and such increases. If the education is lazing itself, how lazy will I be in a fast paced world.