PLN #23

“How Cognitive surplus will Change the World“by Clay Shirky matters because he talks about the importance of cognitive surplus, the ability for the world’s population to volunteer and collaborate on a large scale, sometimes global. This article matters to me because cognitive surplus would give me the ability to receive a lot more accurate information. If your studding the earthquake in Haiti, then you cannot just use Wikipedia because it inaccurate and it’s only one source. A scientist does a number of trials for a science experiment so he can get accurate data. “How Cognitive surplus will Change the World “matters to education because schools would be able to excess boat loads of information by just typing in one URL. This would save teachers and students time because we wouldn’t have to verify if the article is true because hundreds of other people wrote the same thing or not. This article matters to the world because it would a revolutionary way to make sure news is true while searching it. If 20 News channels saw theirs should be be snow and someone built a engine to put this data together there will be snow. “How Cognitive surplus will Change the World” matters because it’s a revolutionary idea to modernize collecting data.

PLN #22

"Education Reform is Re-establishing, Redefining and Retooling” by David Warlick matters because it’s talking about how a school is the equal of a factory. This article is the same concept as the RSA animation “Changing Education Paradigms”. This matters to me because I won’t to be interested when I learn, but instead I am forced irrelevant equations, writing styles, and famous dates. I know the majority of the stuff we learn is important, but it’s not interesting. School is about as boring thing as a factory. Do everything over and over again until you graduate. This article matters to education because the school system isn’t meeting a student’s standards. Schools need to raise their standards along with students. Without coming to a median, students will find school as not necessary, and the rate of drop outs might increase. This article matters to the world because it’s not only affecting American, other world powers must be realizing this too, but will they do something about it?

PLN #21

"Changing Education Paradigms" by Sir Ken Robinson matters because it talks about how every country in the world is reforming public schools. There are two reasons Economics and Culture. This video matters to me because we’re trying to fix current problems with past solutions. Our current school system is based on era that’s out dated and not suited for our time period. Without a sensible solution students will continue the boring day of being forced to learn reading, writing, history, and science. Some of these subjects don’t even suit students. This video matters to education because all schools are just putting students on an assembly line and shoving in standard subjects, sometimes against the students will. “Changing Education Paradigms” matters to the world we need student’s who are learners, not people who can memorize information and barf it up on a test. Students need to be learners, but also students need to want to be learners.