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I read or I should say watched Karl Fisch’s “Brave New Voices” as it is more of a video than a writing blog and is about a new form of poetry.  The video is about a competition with poetry, but it is a completely new type of poetry. Instead of just talking slowly and calmly they are talking faster, louder, some are screaming, but some still go for a more stagnant impression. This new form makes a much more exciting poem then poetry use to be. But is it still poetry? I think it is because it still hard to understand and full of morals that everyone knows about or contains a personal story. I doubt this will affect education much, they will have to teach about this new form of poetry in English but I doubt teachers will spend much time teaching it because you don't learn anything from it so the only people interested in learning it will be those who want to perform it. This will affect the world because it can now take a new look on poetry that could become popular.  This will not affect me because I do not like either form of poetry regardless of what others may think. To me its the same, words thrown together to sound good but when ever I finaly get the point of the poem i wish they would of just of said it.     

PLN 11

                I watched Carl Fisch’s “2020 vision” and I think that it has many possibilities but he messed up on price. I don’t see any of those things being that cheap like the imagine, all you have to do is pay 19.95 for shipping and handling and then pay for a 40 dollar program. I don’t see this happening people want money and they could make much more with that computer so they would at least try to. But besides price I think that it is very possible for what he said can happen is in reach. But I think he is predicting five years ahead of what will happen. This will obviously affect education because all the new technologies will make learning much different and more computer base. But this could affect the world because with ever body getting the same education then how will colleges and gob recruiters decide who is a better student. This affects me because all these new technologies will affect how I use the world.  

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 In David Warlick’s “Introducing an Art Integrationist” makes no sense, he inferred that famous paintings could help students learn math, English, and science. Now I might be being unfair because I hate art but I don’t see how this will help me learn something like math or science or even English. The way his theory is supposed to work is by bringing up problems and helping solve them. I am in geometry and the only picture that helps me would be a degree number in the corner of a triangle. I don’t think that he even put forward a reason or a defense to his theory. I can’t think of any myself so I can’t give you any support for his argument. In my conclusion I think David Warlick brings forward something that will never change or help the world. It won’t even affect education besides social studies where I feel it is most affective it still won’t be better than traditional learning. So I think that this might have a negative influence on me because if one of my teachers tries to use it and it completely backfires I may end up with a bad grade. So I believe that this should never take off.  

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In Tony Wager’s “Rigor Redefined” he brings a very interesting point up and I think that he is completely right, that schools are not preparing kids for work. The fact that business leaders are saying that students are unprepared is scary. We go to school for the first 20 to 28 years of our life but we are still unprepared. If I graduated college and then a prospective employer told me I was unprepared I would feel ripped off. Now I feel that schools are moving towards what he is saying. I feel this way because some of my teachers are making classes more interactive and uses the latest software for example my English class. But it only seems to be happening in the advanced classes.  Now they do deserve better but if regular kids are not even being taught what is needed then only kids in the advanced classes will succeed. This is just like “A vision from a student today” about education falling behind. This is important to education because it needs to adapt to the situation. This definitely affects the world because business will collapse if the employs are not prepared for it. This affects me because I realize that advanced classes aren’t just harder and good looking on college applications but they are better for your learning too. So in my opinion Tony Wager brings forward a very pressing issue and is being a philanthropist.