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Dear Mr. Fisch

After watching the video you posted called “Dear 16 year old me” I was shocked and surprised about some of the facts the video contained. One of them I found extremely disturbing was that getting sunburn before you are eighteen nearly doubles your chances to get Melanoma. This is such a disturbing fact considering that almost every teen has been sun burnt. It also was informative because it talked about some of the ways you can prevent it and also spot it early like using sunscreen and checking your body once a month. I think if everyone can keep these things in mind we can prevent tragedies from happening.

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Dear Mr. Warlick,

I agree with your article “Are we Wasting children” because schools shouldn’t be allowed to let their students drop out of their education because the public schools don’t pressure and encourage their students to stay in school and continue their education. I think that you are not the only one that has had a dream that shows a lack of care by the public school system. I also think that there are clear signs around us that are results of the public school systems lack of effort like high homeless and poverty rates. I think that education is the most important thing we can do to create a better America and the results of schools not caring results in young people not living prosperous and successful lives.

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Dear Mr. Fisch

After reading your article “Dear Denver Post: No More Horoscopes” I agree with you that horoscopes have no place being in the paper before educational articles. When I looked at the poll that was hyperlinked on your blog I could not believe that only 26% of people believe in astrology yet about the same amount believe in things like witches and ghosts. With statistics like these the Denver Post should be printing more stories about Science or even anything educational. With this said even if they are not willing to replace horoscopes permanently maybe they will compromise and have horoscopes only one day of the weekend instead of two? I agree that the Denver Post should not print horoscopes when there are more important stories out there that could benefit society as a whole.

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Clay Shirky’s “How cognitive surplus will change the world” matters to me, education, and the world because it talks about cognitive surplus and how many ways it can be used on the internet. It matters to me because it talks about a new website called “Ushahidi”  that automates the sorting of all this information into a map, which I know if I was in a war ridden county or somewhere that I would want this so I would be able to know the most I possibly could about the situation. It matters to education because if we keep advancing in our technology than we eventually could have a website that sorts information vital to our learning so that when we are researching we don’t have to look over websites that are posting false things on the internet. It matters to the world because everyone in the world uses the internet and almost everyone creates places on the internet, there are so many places on the internet that you may think have true information, but haven’t been updated in 20 years. That’s why we need engines that pull up results that are current and true, if we don’t advance our technology searching for information on the internet will be easy but finding true information will be extremely hard.

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Trip Gabriel’s “Learning in Dorm, Because Class Is on the Web” matters to me, education, and the world because it talks about colleges not having enough money to educate all their students in a classroom. This matters to me because I know for a fact that I learn much better in a classroom then I do listening to a lecture online. I think that you learn much better in a classroom than any other way because if you don’t understand something, you can ask the teacher for help and you will understand it a lot better then you would with an online lecture. For me this article really connected to Michel Welsch’s “A Vision of Students Today”. It matters to education because if students trying to get a degree cant get one on one help when they need it when they are paying boatloads of money to go to college isn’t that wrong, their parents are paying teacher to teach them not post a lecture online and not know their name. It matters to the world because so many people want to go to college and every year college’s budgets are cut which is causing them to have to educate most of their students online. Is it the colleges fault or the countries leaders? This article reveals facts about college today that I didn’t know before and I think that most people don’t know.

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Sir Ken Robinson’s “Changing Education Paradigms” matters to me, education, and the world because it talks about how the education system was set up and some of the flaws in it. It matters to me because it talked about who college degrees used to guaranteed you a job and now they don’t which is causing this generation of learners to not work hard to get a degree which to me is stupid because if you have put so much time into getting into high school why would you not want to go to college and get a better life. It matters to education because it talks about some major flaws in it like how it was set up in a different age and people are educated in batches by age and some people are smarter than other at the same age, but how would we do it differently? You can’t start them earlier because when kids start out their for the most part at the same learning level, so how do we not educate by age? It matters to the world because it talks about us being educated for the economy when we can’t predict what it will be like at the end of the week, which is interesting because it true. How do we educate kids for jobs that don’t exist right now? This video taught me a lot about how education is different now than in the past.

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Carl Fisch’s “A Quarter is more Than Just a Fraction” matters to me, education, and the world because it talks about giving your spare change or whatever you chose to Mr.Fisch and he will donate it to Kiva. It matters to me because if I was trying to start a business in a third world country I would really appreciate it if someone gave me money so that I could start a business. It matters to education because most of the Kiva kids getting the money are also students, which has to be very hard on them. It matters to the world because in every country there are always people that are trying to start business and all of them could use a little help. I think that Kiva is a great organization and we need more like it.