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I watched How Cognitive Surplus will Change the World by Clay Shirky. In this he talked about websites that make accessing constantly changing information easy. He mentioned a website that was constantly being updated for the news in Kenya. The website used maps and the information to make it more easy to understand. He also talked about how once easy websites like these start, it permanently changes society. This all matters to me because easy websites help me when I am in a rush to find certain information. This matters to the world because the world need websites that are quick to use and get the point accross fast. Lastly, it matters to education because society needs to be educated of worldly news like the news in kenya. The video was very informative.

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I read Drawing on My (family) Past by David Warlick. In this he talked about how his uncles started building a book of his family's ancestral past and he is now building on it. This matters to me because I believe it would be cool to get to build on my family tree. I don't know much about my family's past so that would be interesting to do some research on. This matters to the world because so many people in the world don't know about there family tree. I think it would be beneficial to be aware of this in a family. This matters to education because maybe it would be a good connection while learning to know who your great great great great grandpa was during the revolutionary war! I enjoyed this article.

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I watched Changing Education Paradigms by The RSAorg. This video talked about how medications and certain other parts of education won't work to assist students to be successful. I thought this was a good video because it described all the wrongs in our education. This matters to me because if I had issues sitting down for extended periods of time, I don't just want to be druged. This is not an answer I would like even considered. This matters to the world because these same students are who are going to be the work force and political leaders. We want these people to be somewhat educated. This matters to education because education is the force that is packaging us up to go lead the world unprepared and half-high!

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I read Education Reform is Re-Establishing, Redefining, and Retooling by David Warlick. This talked about certain changes that should be made in the education world. David talked about how the education system is like the factory job he had for one year . His job was to make sure that the parts that were being made matched the blue print that he had for those peices. This is like schooling because it says that teachers act like students are the raw materials and graduated students are the final product and the teachers measure them to see if they match the blue print of what a student should be. This matters to me because I want to be measured for the progress I have made not the progress they think I should have made. This matters to the world because the world should be full of individuals who are good at certain things and not at others, not full of robots who are all alike. This matters to education the most because education is what is causing this contreversial topic!

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I read "Lost in Electronica" by George Will. In this he talked about how life back then had it's peaks and vallies of boredom and excitement. Now life consists of only peaks. This occures mostly in boys. With television, texting, videogames, and computers, boys are constantly doing something. This matters to the world because boys i n the future will be the men leading our nation. I don't think that we want leaders that don't know what to do when they are bored. We want leaders that will take life by the horns and will do something useful during that free time. This matters to education because in our somewhat corrupt education system, we have technology absorbing our time. With computer based homework and required internet research, make it easy to get distracted while trying to do homework with things like facebook, youtube, and twitter. This matters to me because if boys are becoming too involved in technological devices maybe I should try to involve myself in less of those things and more in traditional entertainment.

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I read "What If" by Karl Fisch. Although every article he writes does not fail to confuse me, I think it was about that technology today has been banned, but not truly from classrooms. He talked about how it is a rule to not use technological devices. Yet, we use them in classrooms every day. This matters to the world because we are growing up in a world that is constantly going against the rules. This matters to education because the education system is going against it's rules. "A house divided amoung itself cannot stand." -Teddy Roosevelt. This matters to me because I don't want to be growing up in a world that can't hold itself accountable to it's own rules.