PLN 2 Semester 2

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PLN 1 SEMESTER 2

In your article "No More Horescopes”, I agree with your point of view on worthless horoscopes in newspapers. In times like these that are full of such social and political turbulence, newspapers should be informing the public of controversial and important things happening in society and not giving them stupid sources of worthless, mindless entertainment. Entertainment like horoscopes captures the minds of America therefore drawing them away from what is important. To be rather frank, I believe a large amount of Americans have gotten to a point where critical information does not even phase them and they just want entertainment everywhere they go. It is the newspaper’s job to slowly draw the mindset of America to a more knowledge based place once again. Averaged out, on December 9, 2010, America was accurately ranked 14th on the education scale and dropping. I feel if newspapers changed what they were putting in each section, maybe America would get a wake-up call as to what is happening to their minds and realize horoscopes are not what they should be wasting their time on. Instead, they should be spending time on learning information that will make them smarter and prepared for the future and the world.

Sem. 2 PLN 1

The iArm I almost got for Christmas by David Warlick was a humorous article about how lazy technology is becoming. The iArm is basically a brace you clamp around you forearm. It has a little plate that you can put remotes on, food on, kindles on, and ipads on. It is basically an excuse not to use your hands. I believe technology is making society lazier and lazier because it has minimulized the amount of motion a human being needs to do to get what they want. This is eventually going to ruin our society I believe because it is stripping the humanity out of humans. When GOd made the world he did not intend for people to sit infront of a television with and iArm on so that they don't have to lean forward to get their food. I think it is ridiculous. Technology is making people lazier as time goes by which is and will continue to have a horrible effect on the human race.

PLN 23

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.

PLN 22

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.

PLN 21

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!

PLN 20

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!