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?
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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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