What Teachers really want to tell parents

          In the Article "What Teachers Really Want To Tell Parents" Written by Ron Clark, Ron talks about mostly is how difficult PARENTS are, not the kids. He mentions that dealing with parents is one of the most difficult things he has to handle. I personally think he is over exaggerating, his job is to teach children, no matter what it takes, that is what he gets paid for. He gets paid to teach kids and talk to parents about there kids. When Ron mentioned "His mother chimed in and told me that it had been a horrible summer for them because of family issues" then tried to argue with that, I think that is unprofessional. He has no idea what happened during the kids summer, for all he knows his dad may have been sent to jail and sister ran away, but that is non of his business. Also when he brought up the child with the marker on his face, that teacher has no right to touch that child's face. It doesn't matter if the kid has marker all over his face or not. The teacher should not touch that child without asking the parent first. I think that Ron should get a new job if he cant handle it and stop complaining about what he was trained to deal with.      

In Praise of the F Word

             

   In Praise of the F Word                                                           

               In the article "In Praise of the F Word" written by Mark Sherry he talks much about schools and education for teens. He mentions that teens all over the world are struggling with the same thing, paying attention. Because teens are having such a hard time focusing and taking school serious teachers decided to try a new method, the failure method. What teachers are doing is pretty much threatening there students that they will fail them if they don't straiten up and take school seriously. I think that this is both a good and bad thing. This is a good thing because the students try hard to keep their grades up. Although I think that it can be a bad thing because it can lead to extreme stress, coming from a teenager that can be a lot to handle. So, yes it has its ups and downs but in all its a pretty good idea, but I'm not positive this will/would work for everyone, because everyone learns differently.        

Liquid Armor

         

                                                           Liquid Armor


               In the video "Liquid Armor" made by the Science television channel, it explains the insanity of turning a liquid into a solid then back into a liquid, all in a split second. This armor was/is being made for mainly prison guards, prison guards have a high likeliness to get shanked (stabbed) with anything and everything. The vest’s they were wearing before could withstand bullets, but not a knife. The threads in the vest would move due to such a sharp point. Although now the vest is a liquid and when anything punctures it, it turns hard before it can get all the way through. I think that this new armor will help a lot with the injuries that happen at prisons. Not only will it help at prisons but it can be used anywhere, including the army. The idea of a liquid armor is a very impressive idea, not only will this save lives but it is also showing how fast into the future we are moving. Although with this new armor there is a minor flaw, if you were to where this armor and get stabbed you would still feel the hit, it just wouldn’t puncture into your skin. I think this is a great idea and will soon be more known, and easy to buy.  Although you can’t buy the vest yet you can make it, all it takes is two ingredients that are open to the public and you have yourself liquid armor.

Question: Do you think that the rate of speed future is moving is a good or bad thing?   

 

"What is wrong with the teenage mind?"

In the article "What is Wrong With the Teenage Mind?" Written by Alison Gopnik, she tells that the teenagers of this era are trying to hard to impress each other and not hard enough to work for themselves to succeed in life. Teens and young adults have so much potential these days, the only problem is that they don't know it. Every day kids drop out of high school and college, but not because they don't understand the material but because they want to show off for friend and they just want to stop because they are lazy. That is also why teens do the stupid things they do, because there friends are around and they want to impress them.


While reading "What is Wrong With the Teenage Mind?" By Alison Gopnik, I noticed that she is totally right, the teenagers today are so stressed about what others think about them we will do anything to impress our friends. Although, it's not just teenagers that do stupid things and make bad decisions, grow adults make bad decisions too, for the same reason. It is just more common for teenagers I think because we are going through puberty and different hormones are kicking in. When the hormones kick in it is tough to think about our future when it is so much easier to live in the now. I noticed the picture that was added in the article that showed what goes on in our mind. That picture is almost 100% true. With everything that is going on in our heads it is very hard just to focus on one subject every hour. Although I do wish that the people in highschool and college would open their eyes to see all that is planed out in the future.

MMA

                                                     MMA- Mixed Martial Arts


         In the article "Mixed Martial Arts"  by Ray Krueger, he talks much about how Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a very violent and physical sport. "MMA" became a huge sensation in 1993 when pay-per-view played a fight as a experiment to see if people would react to it. After the first premier people started to find it interesting and exciting to watch MMA. Once MMA started to get more popular it became a official sport. Fighters can now become professional fighters and go to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) that is more popular than the normal MMA matches. Ray Krueger mentioned that MMA is a mixture of  boxing, wrestling, karate, jiu-jitsu, judo, Muy Thai and/or basic brawling. Mixed Martial Arts has been around for a while, Brazil was mainly the starter of the sport than America adopted it. Anybody if allowed to do MMA, but it requires a lot of tough work. The work involves eating the right type of fat, carbs, sugars, whets...etc and physical and mental training, you must work your skills and learn new skills and train almost everyday for at least 2 hours. MMA is not a sport for the weak, it is almost as if the strong live the weak die. Although this is a sport, it is a recently new sport to the U.S and some states aren't allowed to be involved with it yet such as New York because  it is known as a violent state.

PLN Question for "What If"

Where do you personally think we will be in 5 years? Do you think the Teachers are right or wrong?

What if?

                In the video “What If” by Karl Fisch he talks much about what has been predicted by teachers from the 1800s all the way to the 21^st century. Many people thought that moving toward future was going to ruin our future.  Humanity has been increasing technology ever since the first idea popped into someone’s mind. In some cases that are good, in other cases it is not so good. The biggest fear that people had in the 1800s to early 1900s was “What happens when you run out of what you are using?” Apparently that fear was a fear they didn't have to worry about. Although now days in 2012 going on to 2013 the question is “Will students base their entire school experience around their computers and internet in the future?” The answer to that question is unanswerable; nobody in the world will be able to know until it is happening.

                After watching the “what If” video by Karl Fisch I realized that our technology is moving extremely fast. In the 1800s inventions really started to get popular. First paper was made, after paper the pencil, and then the pen. After a few hundred years we got to wireless internet from our cell phones and laptops. Now days there is a new invention almost every second. How do we know that there won’t be a whole new different type of web searching device in 5 years? Or maybe in 5 years the internet will be totally 100% gone. The point I’m trying to prove is that we have no idea of what we will be using in 5 years. Our guesses could be like the teachers in the video and be totally wrong, or we could be totally right. As of right now we have no idea.      

Question: Where do you personally think we will be in 5 years?