PLN 17

If I where to ay something like fossil fusel are bad, or no one should have a gun can you completely agree with me? Well in Carl Fischs What if? he talks about how schools have a strict “No Electronic Devices” and what is wrong with that statement. It projects a stereo type that all technology is bad in class when actually is could be an extremely helpful thing to have in class. This affects me because I very much depend on technology for organization and if teachers won’t let me use it to record homework which in turn forces me to try to find a different way to record my homework. This affects my class because it limits so much of what we can do such as blogging, music on silent projects, ect. This affects the world because students growing up only have so much use of technology wile there learning about how to work and manage your assignments, and this rule gives people bad habits of organization that aren’t always the most efficient. Do you think the advantages out weigh the disadvantages of technology?

PLN 19

What kind of world would we have if no one could focus on anything boring in more then 30 seconds? In George Wills, Lost in Electronica he tells about a boy’s addiction to entertainment to the point where they can’t stand being bored at all and need the constant entertainment. The problem is that there are always ways to distract ourselves, and that we never actually get bored, which then makes us unable to cope with being bored and have to go find something to do. This affects me because if I am one of these people I will not be able to do anything in the real world because I won’t be able to learn it due to my attention deficit. This affects my class because if my classmates are like me we won’t be able to focus on any projects and this will make schools almost pointless because they won’t be able to get the students to do anything. This affects the world because there will always be ways to distract ourselves and if we stay the same way from childhood we won’t be able to handle the adult world. What would you do if your memory was as long as a goldfish?