In Greg Chapman’s blog post The Road to Infinity-Making Journey to the Edge of the Earth, Chapman presents the benefits and the new technology that is being discovered and how it is used today. Chapman first talks about how when he was a young boy and star gazer, he would look to the night sky and wonder about what else was out in space. As he fast forwards to about 2 years ago you see how technology has expanded. Instead of just looking through a telescope wondering…you can actually see what is out in the universe. We have created such technology that we can actually “visit” other planets, and get a close up view of planets, stars, the sun and much more. t amazes me how in such a short time period scientists can come up with the technology to visit outer space, and also send rovers on to real plant itself.
In Chapman’s project Journey to the Edge of the Universe, he describes the process of which he is making a TV show to show what kinds of things are out in space. He says how he will match the real images of outer space and create them into computer graphics to show on the show. Chapman also states that the production is more of an animated movie than a documentary.
After reading this article, it made me wonder about what will the technology be like in a couple years. Will we actually be able to visit other planets with the technology we have now, but what it will be like in 5 or 10 years; how much of it will be perfected? I know that NASA has already planned to have life on the moon, so in 25 years will we be able to have life on another planet. We can’t just wonder and dream about these things, we have to take action like Greg Chapman. He wondered about what was out in the universe, but when he got older he was now the Executive Producer of Journey. He took action and is now creating a show about it.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Education and the Future
In the article Rigor redefined by Tony Wagner, Tony observes classrooms around the entire nation to see how teachers are preparing, if they are, students to be 21st-century learners; also to observe if two learning goals are in conflict.
I think teachers in schools need to be more interactive with students. They also need to let the kids learn for themselves. In some of the classroom environments that Wagner observed, it was interesting to hear about some of the things teachers do. It almost seems like they give up and don’t let the students have a chance at answering a question, they just give them the answer. What will happen to these students when they are out in the working field and have to answer a question, the teacher won’t be there to give them the answer. This is why I think that some teachers need to change their teaching style.
Some of the criteria that teachers are teaching kids is not what they will need in the future. So why don’t they change it. Like in the article when Wagner asked the head of a technical business (Clay Parker) what he looks for when he hires young people; he responded with someone who asks good questions and knows how to think for themselves. If this is what people are looking for in the people they hire, then why are we not teaching kids in school how to think for themselves?
“We need to use academic content to teach the seven survival skills every day, at ever grade level, and in every class. Our students’ futures are at stake.” We need teachers in every school to know how to teach these seven survival skills that students will need in the future. For if they do not, what will happen to the 21st-century learners when it’s their time to be in the business field, or start their careers?
I think teachers in schools need to be more interactive with students. They also need to let the kids learn for themselves. In some of the classroom environments that Wagner observed, it was interesting to hear about some of the things teachers do. It almost seems like they give up and don’t let the students have a chance at answering a question, they just give them the answer. What will happen to these students when they are out in the working field and have to answer a question, the teacher won’t be there to give them the answer. This is why I think that some teachers need to change their teaching style.
Some of the criteria that teachers are teaching kids is not what they will need in the future. So why don’t they change it. Like in the article when Wagner asked the head of a technical business (Clay Parker) what he looks for when he hires young people; he responded with someone who asks good questions and knows how to think for themselves. If this is what people are looking for in the people they hire, then why are we not teaching kids in school how to think for themselves?
“We need to use academic content to teach the seven survival skills every day, at ever grade level, and in every class. Our students’ futures are at stake.” We need teachers in every school to know how to teach these seven survival skills that students will need in the future. For if they do not, what will happen to the 21st-century learners when it’s their time to be in the business field, or start their careers?
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Rescue for Animals in Need!
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/rescue-ink-unleashed/4395/Overview#tab-Overview
Just recently I read on National Geographic’s Rescue Ink Unleashed, “Desperate Dogs”. Before I get in to what the article says I’ll give you some background knowledge. Rescue Ink is a television show where these men called “tough guys” are on a mission to save and protect animals in danger.
In the article it tells how Rescue Ink goes to a home where a man has his puppy living in the basement in bad conditions. The team takes the dog to an organization where he can be helped. It tells another story about two dogs that are chained up and neglected most of the time.
This angers me when people don’t treat their dogs (in this case) or animal’s right! They do have feelings too. When an animal is neglected it can suffer from various things, depending on what kind of neglect the animal gets from the owner. When I see the shows on TV where it shows the animal living in the backyard with no food or water, and may be starving to death…It makes me so sad to think that we have people in this world that would do that. It makes me think about how many people actually care for their pets? And how might this affect our society if people don’t take care of them?
If animals are living in poor conditions in our country, what are the conditions like for animals in other countries that are neglected or abused? What will happen to them if they don’t get the care and love they need? Or the country doesn’t have that good of Veterinarians or clinics for the animals to go?
I challenge you readers to think about how well you take care of your pet, and do you give your pet the love that it needs?
Just recently I read on National Geographic’s Rescue Ink Unleashed, “Desperate Dogs”. Before I get in to what the article says I’ll give you some background knowledge. Rescue Ink is a television show where these men called “tough guys” are on a mission to save and protect animals in danger.
In the article it tells how Rescue Ink goes to a home where a man has his puppy living in the basement in bad conditions. The team takes the dog to an organization where he can be helped. It tells another story about two dogs that are chained up and neglected most of the time.
This angers me when people don’t treat their dogs (in this case) or animal’s right! They do have feelings too. When an animal is neglected it can suffer from various things, depending on what kind of neglect the animal gets from the owner. When I see the shows on TV where it shows the animal living in the backyard with no food or water, and may be starving to death…It makes me so sad to think that we have people in this world that would do that. It makes me think about how many people actually care for their pets? And how might this affect our society if people don’t take care of them?
If animals are living in poor conditions in our country, what are the conditions like for animals in other countries that are neglected or abused? What will happen to them if they don’t get the care and love they need? Or the country doesn’t have that good of Veterinarians or clinics for the animals to go?
I challenge you readers to think about how well you take care of your pet, and do you give your pet the love that it needs?
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Learn Something. Pass it on.
As I looked at this article from The Fischbowl; Learn Something, Pass it on (http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2008/11/learn-something-pass-it-on.html), this quote caught my eye. “Maybe I got my desire from my parents; the desire to learn something, and pass it on”-Steve Inskeep. He then goes on to say that this good description of why he blogs. This specific quote is very inspirational and got me thinking; if you don’t learn anything, then why do you go to school?
Here in America we have the great opportunity to go to school and to get an education, in fact it’s not just an opportunity it’s a law. When we as students get this opportunity, we get more opportunities with it. Such as, getting better jobs and getting to go to college. I think we take an advantage of this. People in other countries don’t get an education either because they can’t afford it or because it’s not in there culture. They are raised to work and not to go to school.
Think about when they look at our country…and the kinds of things they say about us and not wanting to go to school, and how we turn down the opportunities that come along with our education. If they were here in America they would probably love to come to school every day, try their hardest to get good grades. My question is: Why can’t we try our hardest to get the best education we can? Why do we have to be told by others how great it is to be in school? Why can’t we pass on what we learn?
Here in America we have the great opportunity to go to school and to get an education, in fact it’s not just an opportunity it’s a law. When we as students get this opportunity, we get more opportunities with it. Such as, getting better jobs and getting to go to college. I think we take an advantage of this. People in other countries don’t get an education either because they can’t afford it or because it’s not in there culture. They are raised to work and not to go to school.
Think about when they look at our country…and the kinds of things they say about us and not wanting to go to school, and how we turn down the opportunities that come along with our education. If they were here in America they would probably love to come to school every day, try their hardest to get good grades. My question is: Why can’t we try our hardest to get the best education we can? Why do we have to be told by others how great it is to be in school? Why can’t we pass on what we learn?
Thursday, September 17, 2009
World News
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_world/~3/kJ8lcD3zEAg/index.html
9 Children Hurt in Germany School Attack!
Wow! How would you like to wake up and go to school thinking its going to be a great day…then about and hour later you have fellow class mate running through the halls with an ax and two knives? That would be scary! I can’t imagine how the parents felt getting a phone call or be having to give the phone call saying that your child has been injured at school. Isn’t school supposed to be safe? School is safe, but you never know when things like that can happen. To be in a situation like that at school would be horrifying to me; I always remember being scared when our school had to go on lock down because a bank was robbed. To be in that situation where the attack is in the school…I can’t even describe it.
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_world/~3/kJ8lcD3zEAg/index.html
9 Children Hurt in Germany School Attack!
Wow! How would you like to wake up and go to school thinking its going to be a great day…then about and hour later you have fellow class mate running through the halls with an ax and two knives? That would be scary! I can’t imagine how the parents felt getting a phone call or be having to give the phone call saying that your child has been injured at school. Isn’t school supposed to be safe? School is safe, but you never know when things like that can happen. To be in a situation like that at school would be horrifying to me; I always remember being scared when our school had to go on lock down because a bank was robbed. To be in that situation where the attack is in the school…I can’t even describe it.
Education:
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-than-passing-trend-part-ii.html
More Than a Passing Trend Part II
When I first watched this Youtube video, it surprised me that many things on the internet only took a few years to gain 50 million users. It took the radio 36 years and the television 13 years. It then compared it to how many years it took the internet to gain 50 million users which was 4 years, then the iPod (3 years). Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months! This just proves to show that the things and social networking stuff we do on the internet everyday is having a huge impact on our world and not just our country. They say it’s the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution.
On the video it says “there are over 200,000,000 blogs and 54% of bloggers post content daily”. When I think of how many people that is posting and responding to other peoples ideas every day…it makes me think about what will we be doing in 10 years when new technology has come out and people have improved the internet? How will we be responding to other people’s ideas then?
I think its amazing how so many newspaper companies have experienced newspaper declines, because the news that would usually be in the newspaper is now on the internet. Also, how we no longer have to find the news, the news finds us. I like what it said in the end “ Social Media is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate”.
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-than-passing-trend-part-ii.html
More Than a Passing Trend Part II
When I first watched this Youtube video, it surprised me that many things on the internet only took a few years to gain 50 million users. It took the radio 36 years and the television 13 years. It then compared it to how many years it took the internet to gain 50 million users which was 4 years, then the iPod (3 years). Facebook added 100 million users in less than 9 months! This just proves to show that the things and social networking stuff we do on the internet everyday is having a huge impact on our world and not just our country. They say it’s the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution.
On the video it says “there are over 200,000,000 blogs and 54% of bloggers post content daily”. When I think of how many people that is posting and responding to other peoples ideas every day…it makes me think about what will we be doing in 10 years when new technology has come out and people have improved the internet? How will we be responding to other people’s ideas then?
I think its amazing how so many newspaper companies have experienced newspaper declines, because the news that would usually be in the newspaper is now on the internet. Also, how we no longer have to find the news, the news finds us. I like what it said in the end “ Social Media is a fundamental shift in the way we communicate”.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
When I first read the "New Literacy" I thought it was interesting to read about how people blame technology for kids who cant write. Some of the things that suprised me the most was how the college professer said that texting has dehydrated language into "bleak, bald, sad, shorthand". I disagree with him because texting has made it easier for kids to take notes, and with out all the new technology that we go home and write stuff in/on such as: facebook, and twitter we would be going home and not writing anything else for the rest of the day. I like how now students can write to an audience and they dont have to follow a specific rubric. If writing has come this far with the internet and taken a new revolution, then what will writing be like in 10 years?
After watching Michael Wesch's video "web 2.0" it made me think about how the internet is such a big part of peoples lives, linking people together, and trading information with eachother. It also made me think about how we are the web, we are the machine. And that we teach the machine everytime we post and tag a picture. It amazes me how many different things we can do on the web. At the end of the video it got me thinking on how we need to stop copyrighting other peoples work that we dont give them credit for, and how we need to rethink privacy and identity.
After watching Michael Wesch's video "web 2.0" it made me think about how the internet is such a big part of peoples lives, linking people together, and trading information with eachother. It also made me think about how we are the web, we are the machine. And that we teach the machine everytime we post and tag a picture. It amazes me how many different things we can do on the web. At the end of the video it got me thinking on how we need to stop copyrighting other peoples work that we dont give them credit for, and how we need to rethink privacy and identity.
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