PLN 18

I read “Teen beaten at party died from lacerated heart,” written by the CNN Wire Staff. 18 year-old Bobby Maurice Tillman from Georgia was stomped to death outside a home where a party was being held. The police say that if he was not stomped causing a broken rib puncturing his heart, he possibly could have survived. This matters to me, because whenever I am going to a party from now on, I want to know everyone that is going to be attending. So I know for a fact that I will be safe. This affects the world and society, because you never know who is going to be lurking out there. You just can’t assume that he is a nice guy. Bobby got beaten down by four men, Horace, Emmanuel, Quantez, and Tracen. Quote from Bobby’s mom, “My son was beaten by four cowards.” These four murderers are going to have to live for the rest of their life knowing that they murdered a poor innocent boy. This matters to education, because I believe in our schools we can teach students how to stay away and act in these situations. I believe that if we do there would be a lot less deaths in the world. If we do, people like Bobby Tillman would not die.

PLN 17

I just finished reading the “What If” post by the Fischbowl and I believe I can connect to their ideas directly. Yes I agree that a lot of kids can misuse these new technologies in order to distract them from their work. But I also believe that most of the kids are looking into the future for a future job and or career. In order to have these future dreams, we need to learn how to use the technology that we have now to our fullest extent. I think that it would be pretty sweet to know all of the stuff that you can do with your IPod or computer to corporate stuff like movies and music. This matters to the world, because a lot of kids do not get the chances to use these devices, and not only that, not even use these devices they way they want to learn them. Like the exact details. This matters to society, because the U.S in its current state right now is in a technological up rise, and I will bet you that over half the people that live in the U.S. don’t know anything about it. I believe that we need to start being even more technologically based with our students, then we will start to see the grades go up.