PLN8

I read “Rapper T.I. arrested on machine gun charges, misses BET show,” a CNN article. This man, Clifford Harris, otherwise known as T.I. paid his bodyguard $12,000 to go and buy him three machine guns, and two silencers. This matters to me, because I don't want some drugged up guy running around shooting off his guns. Harris was born in the projects and proved to a lot of people that you can make success coming from the projects. But he also proved that it’s not that hard going back to his old ways. Harris’s words and actions affect the world and education by being a bad role-model. A lot of kids love Harris’s work, and they idol him; but he goes and shoots a few people, it shows bad reputation, but all the kids still love him, so they want to be like him. This connects to me personally, because I have seen this before, back when I lived in Denver. I saw a guy running down the street with a gun. It really changed the way I view people now.

PLN7

After I watched "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" by Michael Wesch, I realized that the web is not making us stupid at all. We have the higher intellect creating these massive super computers. Since we are creating these computers that makes us more superior than the computers. I can now view the computer as an organizational tool to help me with homework, saving websites, blog spots I might be on, just about everything. I think that machines are making us smarter in fact, because we use these machines everyday and we see millions of things good with these machines, but when we see one bad, or something that could be changed to help us positively, we change it. After I watched "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us” by Michael Wesch, it changed my thinking in our machines we have today, and the machines we possibly could have in the future.

PLN6

I read “Car thief nabbed near Jeff co elementary school,” by the Denver Post. This story was about man who stole a black Cadillac at 5:45 in the morning. The police later spotted the man in the car outside a Jeff Co elementary school. The man got out of his car and ran. The police used their special K-9 unit and hunted him down to find him in a garage. This matters to me, because it shows how ignorant we Americans are just leaving these expensive cars out and about. And also how ignorant these people stealing these cars can be, thinking they can steal this really nice car and expect to get away with it. I just really think the world should watch out for these kinds of people, so we can be prepared so this won’t happen again.

PLN5

In Will Richardson's “Footprints in the Digital Age,” I completely agree with him, students must be taught to take care and improve their digital footprint. I could just Google myself and a lot of stuff will pop up, but now that I’m in high school I need to be careful to what I do and say on the internet. So it is very important to stay on top of school work and emails and blogs I say online. Some people could take this chance and change their digital footprint and succeed. While others look at this opportunity, but choose to be misanthropes and hate the world.

PLN4

I read "Man sought in robbery at a Public Storage facility in Denver" By Howard Pankratz of The Denver Post, and there was a tall black man who arrived at a Public Storage Facility armed and asking for money. The police have not yet identified this man, and he is still out there. This matters to me, because you never know when or where evil is going to come, even at a public storage facility. Evil is lurking around every corner.

PLN3

In this internet excerpt “Is Google Making us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, he explains how the internet is messing with the human brains. This matters to the world, because if we continue to read on these internet web pages, it would be like were a new person. As said in this excerpt by Nicholas Carr, “As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” I like this statement, because it is a very likely opinion for the future. Us humans should be more concerned for what we do in our everyday stroll, because who knows what will happen.