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I read “Dear Denver Post-You’re the Disappointment” by Mr. Fisch, It matters to me, education, and the world because it talks about an article in the newspaper that talked about the disappointment of going back to school. It matters to me because the article that was written in the newspaper about the disappointment of going back to school completely affects me and I have felt it disappointment of summer ending and school starting before, mostly in past years where you want summer just to continue on because school is “boring”, but it can’t. It affects education because if kids are disappointed about school than how do we expect them to do well and learn all the things they need to be successful in high school and college. It affects the world because if kids don’t do well in school expectations will go down and ultimately it will result in a non-intelligent generation. I think that if the Denver post is criticizing education they shouldn’t be publishing articles like this.

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After watching Michael Wesch’s “The Machines are using us” It made me think about why it mattered to me, education, and the world. It matters to me because as I was watching the video I was like wow I did not know how much text was used to create one part of on website, I was also amazed when he said that as we advanced more text was used. It matters to education because in education we use computers everyday and we never realize how much we depend on the programs that are written when we use the computer. It matters to the world because every time we click on something the computers learn eventually computers will be smarter than us, what will we do? This was a very informational video It was also interesting learning all these things that I didn’t know about the internet and our computers.

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I read A post on Mr.Fisch’s blog called “Dear Denver Post, Would You Be Okay With Us Cheating On The CSAP, too?” , it matters because it effects me, education, and the world. This post matters to me because I strongly disagree with Mr.Fisch, because if you actually watch baseball you will see people that say their hit but aren’t, deal with it its baseball and the umpires are not perfect, and It happens all the time and people write about It all the time why hammer this guy he is just doing his job? It matters to education because Mr.Fisch brought up CSAP in his post; personally I thought it was an unrealistic comparison because CSAP determines more than a player on base that probably didn’t even score to a major test that everyone in Colorado takes. It matters to the world because in a sense It is wrong to cheat but I play baseball and really I do not consider this cheating in any way because I mean really are you going to call the guy a cheater If he stepped in front of a 90mph fastball to get on base would you call him a cheater? I thought that he had a point but not enough of one to make such drastic comparisons and completely hammering the guy on the internet, if you feel so strongly about something send him an email.

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In Will Richardson’s “Footprints in the Digital Age” Will talks about how having bad digital footprints may come back to haunt you. This article matters to me because if I have a very bad digital footprint in a couple of years when I am trying to get a job the manager could Google me and see something that might make him think that I am a Misanthrope and hire someone else. It affects education because in three years when I am applying to colleges the duke of administrations might Google me to see if I am a good person and post all my volunteer work online or if I am a very wild person and might cause a lot of trouble at his school. It matters to the world because on the internet anyone can look at it and it might completely alter your life as you live it. I think that Wills article from his book was very informational and that all new parents should read it to make sure that their kids leave a very good digital footprint and have opportunities that people with bad digital footprints don’t get.

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I read "Dang! I Just Missed It" by David Warlick, This article talks about how an original message can get distorted into something false, it matters because sometimes while researching we may run across facts that may not be true. This matters to me because when ever I do any research I always use multiple sources to make sure the information I am giving others is true this happened in the article when he didn’t listen completely to his teacher and woke up at 5:30 in the morning to not be able to see mars the size of the moon. It matters to education every time that you use the computer to do research because if you do not know that you have the right facts you could put something into a report that is completely false and not get a good grade or in this David’s case waking up to nothing at five o’clock in the morning. It matters to the world because everyone has done it before, reading something on the internet that’s not true and then learning later there’s a catch like using a 75 times zoom. I thought that David’s article was very good and definitely was an eye opener to me.

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“Is Google making us stupid” by Nicholas Carr Talks about Google and the internet making us stupid, I think that eventually it will make us look stupid because it will be smarter then us but I don’t think we will be stupid. To me I do think that computers will out smart us but I think that I will still act the same and will probably learn mostly the same way so to me all that matters is that I am still learning and if the computer be smarter then me so be it. I think that it will effect education dramatically because it will completely change how we learn; I think that kids our age in the future will be much smarter than we are now because they will have a lot more resources then we do even right now. I think it will affect the world even more then It will affect education because there will be a ton of new jobs that don’t even exist right now because we don’t have the technology and as technology advances so will our view on life and everything in it. Learning new things is absolutely the thing we do most in life and as technology advances we will be able to learn a lot more a lot quicker and there will be a lot more to learn.

A Vision Of Students Today

In Michel Welsch’s”A vision of students today” there are many things that affect us, education, and the world.  Michal Welsch’s video mattered to me because it taught me things like that by 2020 a $1000 computer will be smarter than the human race, that matters to me because I think I will be weird have a computer  that is smarter than me. It matters to education because hopefully enough people saw it to learn that most of the time in college the classes are so big that some kids drop out and some don’t learn because they can’t see the information. It matters to the world because it points out facts that we need to improve on and something’s that we are doing well at like developing new technology.  I thought Michel Welsch’s video was very powerful and that he had to put a lot of time into it.