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?