PLN #8

I read "School as A Video Game" by Will Richardson this article matters because it talks about video games being the future of our schools. Video games becoming part of our schools might really lower the laziness in American schools.  This matters to me because everyone views video games as a time waster and unconstructive to the learning environment. This matters to me because who wouldn't want to play video games all day instead of sit in a class from for an hour and listen to a teacher give a lecture.? "School as A Video Game" matters to education because students would be able to learn through a digital environment. Also teacher would have to adapt to new learning styles. This matters to education because it would open up a new field of study and new jobs that would help our economy improve. Once I graduate from college I will probably be working in a job that doesn’t exist right know. This article matters to the world because it says that video games would become helpful to education. This could change how every nation in the world teachers their students. The one thing I don't know about is will it be for better or for worse? "School as A Video Game" is an idea that is far away from our times but maybe not our younger generation of students, this article matters because it would change how teachers teach, students learn, create more jobs, and change the world as we know it..

PLN #7

"The Machine is Us/ing Us" by Micheal Wesch matters because it proves that machines are using the human race to get smarter, eventually, they will be smarter than us. If the human race will keep making technology better we are basically digging our own grave. This video matters to me because I use the internt offen and I have favorties vist about 20 sites a week then my computer will probably learn what I like to do and take me their automaticaly or it will block that site so I discover new sites, ideas, blogs, news, etc. Thsi video matters to education because the web is used as a tool in many classrooms around the world, so what if the computer started to teach the class? This video matters to the world because computers are already taking jobs like the toll booths, they have this new thing that reads a little device on your windsheild or reads your license plate and bills you. If technology keeps inproving there will be only a few jobs out there that people can do, but you will have to have some skills. We need to get wiser when it comes to technology, we already have a huge factor of people that aren't working in the US. So why do we have to keep taking jobs off the market with technology?

PLN #5

In Will Richardson's "Footprints in the Digital Age" he talks about the fact that every parent wants there child to have a positive image on the web. This article matters because it symbolizes that colleges do Google you and see what you have on the internet. Therefore if you have a bunch of terrible work and pointless videos on blogs and Youtube theb they're going to look for another person to take your place. This matters to me because if you don't use the internet and nohting comes up when colleges search you then they will think you don't like technology and in this ever modernizing world that's a bad thinf. I don't want a college to judge me by looking at my internet usage, it seems too indirect. This matters to education colleges do Google you before you're accepted and if nothing or bad stuff comes up you're not going to that college. You would have to be a MIsanthrope to avoid usin the internet for social stuff. Education is almost totally modernized and if you don't go along for the ride your going to be left behind. This matyters too the world because of the ever increasing compition in the job markets and collegs taking more people in who won't even get a job in there field of study, we might become the dumdest country in the world. In "Footprints of the Digital Age" it clearly states that we need a positive image, but what if we aren't the ones making our self's look bad?

PLN #4

I read "Old and New" by Will Richardson because this article matters to me, "Why you say?" because it shows that we are all like Will's kids, curios to a certain point. This blog s I liked this article because it described a family moment that involved to curios kids and a really big tree. Will Richardson went up to see a huge dead tree that was almost 200 years old. His kids being curios and all looked up a equation and figured out. Will said when standing with your back against the trunk that you can't see any blue sky at all. This matters to education because it shows how important field trips can be, lasting memories of work come from being out in the field putting equations and learning to the test. For example I remember taking a field trip to the zoo to study our favorite animals in 2nd grade, a animal pooped on me that field trip. This could mean to the world that not all accomplishments are in a office, some can be outside in the open air. It could also mean spend more time with your family while they can. Family and education are important put them together into one idea and they suddenly become very important.

PLN #3

"Is Google Making Us Stuipid?", by Nicholas Carr, matters because it states that through the use of the internet more that our own brain, our brain will function as a computer and become dependent on the Internet. So, basically since the computer will exceeded the human brain in less that 4 years, as a species we will be dependent on technology and without it we are stuipd. This article means to me is that we will be a technology based country for the rest of our lives. Technology also changes the way our brian functions, it can change it's self to use the Internet as a add-on, to increase our intelligence. If in fact we're becoming more independent on technology why not stop so, by educational means, we become smarter. The reason we do this is because we can't. For example Mrs. Smith said she tried to go without her cell phone and computer for a week and she barely got through it, she also said that all she could think about was how many emails would be in here inbox, how to stay caught up on events, and how to teach class. That was just a cell phone and a computer, not all of the technology in her life. If we got rid of technology for education it would be a great triumph, but for the human race, it could never happen. For the world technology is a way of communicating, trading, having fun, etc. The Internet is something we take for granted, if we had a disaster that destroyed all of technology (like all those movies and video games) everything would come to a stop. Without technology the world would change back to the mind set of pilgrims coming to America for a new start. We want technology, we don't need it.