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In David Warlick’s “Are they learners or are they Students” I think that they the proper turn for kids in school is students. The traits that he states about learners are not like most students I know. For example he said that learners are curios to learn for the benefit of learning while students a compelled to because without it they won’t go to a good college or get a good job. The lowest amount of student actually learn because they are curios and it’s not like they are the only good students many of my friends have honor classes and they hate school but they relies they have to do this because without it they probably won’t succeed in life. This affects education because they must rely that students are only motivated to learn because of success not in any way because they want to. This does not really affect the world because for either reason they learn. To me I am motivated to succeed and nothing will change that so I think the correct term for me is student.  

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In Carl Fisch's "What if" he is making an assumption about students surprisingly he is overestimating teenagers. I agree with him the signs will never work because they can't actually stop every student who brings a cell phone. The problem for him is very few students would actually listen if they were told to not use their phones appropriately. So even though the signs will work I doubt talking could ever solve it. So the world and education will probably not benefit from this idea. And I won’t because neither solution will work, it relies on teenagers actually listen.

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In Jonathan Rosenberg’s “Our Googley advice to a Student” Google is stating what they want in an employee/student and what are a student’s best traits so it must be good advice.  One of the most important things that they kept talking about is being a non routine problem solver. This is important to Google because they feel that it is a huge advantage to any company to be able to solve unordinary problems in an acceptable time. They identify a non routine problem solver by looking for a person with five specific traits. The five traits are analytical reasoning, communication skills, a willingness to experiment, a team player, passion, and leadership. Google states that many other companies and governments desire the same type of employee that they do.  This will affect education because education will feel pressured to try to teach these skills to children.  The article also indicates that this type of employee usually has challenged themselves by taking higher level thinking classes in core subjects. This will affect the world because if more people were like this then the worlds business and governments would be much more affective then they are today. This can affect me but only if I choose to allow it.  If I do listen and actively try to improve my thinking, the chances of me being successful will grow exponentially.

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In David Warlick's "Confidence Lost" he brings a good point in how K-12 is more of a forced education then a true one. I wonder if an education where you choose your classes would be good that early in life? I think it would cause problems. Although a forced education is not good when you’re in high school because might end up doing something you don’t like for a career. But that early in life I doubt they would think about the future nor would they consider trying something new. I think the forced education opens their minds to new ideas so they know what they like when they go to high school. This affects education because this impacts how and what the K-12 teachers will teach. The world will be affected by how this all works on young minds hence the future work force. I will only be affected by how the generations perform after the decision to keep or change forced education.

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  In David Warlick's "Qualities of an Effective Teacher" what the author is saying may be correct but impossible. His description of what a good teacher would be is great. I don't know how a kid could fail school if there were that many good teachers working with him. Unfortunately this is not how it is there aren’t enough of these types’ people for more important roles. Although I must say the most people I see who have these traits tend to be teachers because they defiantly are not in politics. This affects education because it will never go to its full potential do to the lack of people like this. The world would is affected by this because with out not having an education to its full potential the world will not gain its own potential. This affects will affect me because I don't have all my teachers like this closing some doors for me. Thankfully though not the on I’m aiming for.

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In Alvin Kohn's "Schools would be great if it wasn't for kids" the author comes across in an incorrect manner. Without kids school would be pointless and many systems already set up will be wasted. The school system is built around kids and their misbehavior and cheating. So, kids do not get away with too many injustices. This whole system would be wasted without us kids. The argument that you would not need it with adults is wrong school is a place to learn. Adults did not get learn every thing from there parents. Any ways reserch has proven that childeren's minds are much more accepting of new ideas which is much of what school is.