Doing Work;Better than Learning it?

It's a little strange writing about a PLN in my PLN, but I found " Its Who You Know" by Karl Fisch to be very interesting. It showed me that what I'm writing is for a reason and not just for a grade. I noticed while reading the article that he is correct because just from learning something you're not applying it to anything to actually learn it. Fisch wasn't referring to "who" as a person, he was relating it to the PLN which I thought was really interesting. Yes he didn't get out all his thoughts and it was confusing since he wasn't done but I got it. I think this relates a lot to what we're doing in class because it has to do with what we work on every week, our Personal Learning Networks. I agree with him in the context that PLN's are helping students a lot more than school would without them. I just wonder by how much they are helping students in and out of the classroom. With these types of writing I think people are putting more thought and actually using what they learn in their voices and in their everyday live's. Without it, the world wouldn't, I don't think, advance as much as it has. Does elaborating on text help as much as all of the teachers say it does? Or is there something better that we haven't discovered yet. Could students be so smart eventually that their minds would be too smart for our technology? These are questions that this article brought up while I was reading. It makes me wonder if it really is the same as who you know is who you are? It really seems to relate to it but how? It changed my perspective of PLN's to a great extent because it showed me that it was taking that extra step from just learning and getting the grade.

Response to the Killing at Yale University

How often do you hear that someone dies on their wedding day? The day everyone looks forward to since their in elementary school. Its really sad that so many people die each and every day weather its murder, accident or suicide . What was the killers motivation? It could have been from jealousy or anything for that matter. And its really weird that they shoved her body in a wall. I have never heard of any killer doing that kind of thing. Also its strange that she wrote an article about crime just a week before her death. Its just so ironic that she died very shortly after the article was written. No one had any suspicions about anyone around them. Normally in these type of crimes
someones at least a tiny bit suspicious.
While i was reading i noticed some clues...
1. It was her wedding day so it could have been someone who was mad she was marrying the guy she was marrying or jealous of her.
2. She was hid in a wall so obviously they tried to hide it and she didn't commit suicide.

All in all this article really shocked me and is very interesting to me but very very sad.

Response to A Low Fedelity Education

People are replacing good and perfect education with OK mediocre education. There basically not caring about it anymore and not trying to make it as perfect as it can be. But now OK is seeming better than perfect education. Now there finding out that "perfect" really isn't that good. I think its crazy that the OK not polished just mediocre education is better than perfect and polished. They work a lot harder on the perfect education and its not better than OK education? I'm not sure if i really agree with that but who knows maybe it is better. They might try to make it so perfect that its no longer perfect at all. I personally think that having information right there in front of us doesn't help us as much as taking time to look for it. The worlds not as easy as school sets us up for its a lot harder and theirs so many more difficulties. I do not think that the world will be face to face much longer and by that time the world will be a lot less social. I don't think it will be good for this world at all and eventually the world won't be the same as it is now.

Mesching The New Literacy with Weschs Video

Michael Wesches video and the article, The New Literacy both agree on the fact that the Internet is changing the way people think as learners and improving writing skills. Clive Thompson's article directly relates to the video. This article is a part of a magazine and the video is a part of the website YouTube.



What matters in the article is that something so simple is improving writing skills. Not by just a little bit but by a lot. Literally improving by grade letters. Before the Internet no one ever did as well as they do now. Now studies can prove that people who use the Internet now do better than those who don't. From video posts, blogs, and social networking you're learning more then you would ever think. From a personal perspective i know that every time I'm on the Internet I'm learning better comprehension, word choice and punctuation. Most of the time before the Internet and social networking after school was done no one used all they knew. But if you give the writing a purpose then teens will use what they know in blogs and Internet posts.

In class were posting blogs and mostly doing our work on the Internet which i think is going to accommodate everyone. This will teach even horrible writers in our class at least to get better. I personally don't believe that writing on paper really helps that much other then maybe improving your handwriting. Also while you could be done with a piece of writing online you would still be working on, on paper. It would be the same work but in half the time.



With the Internet people all over the world can share information with people who don't know the info. even if they don't know that their doing it. Jobs today even include the Internet and its more effective and faster than hand writing. If people didn't have the technology to share things with other people then we wouldn't be the same and neither would our writing. Sharing just words on the Internet makes up a huge part of us. It proves that the Internet has a very big purpose in writing.

If people are so advanced in thought and writing now how much more will they advance in the future? It makes me think about how far we've come and how the world would be without it. Its amazing how people can just be online having fun chatting with their friends and actually be learning something. It has changed my perspective on writing a lot because i never knew that what i was typing on the Internet was actually improving my comprehension. I can't wait to see how the world is going to advance in the future...