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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.

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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.     

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                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.