The Wilderness Downtown

The Wilderness Downtown is an incredible website that allows people to explore a new way to look at their home and even town. Now only can you look at your own home but any place you want with just putting an address into the search. It starts off with a man running for all the videos then transforms into a higher over view of the surrounding area as well as birds flying around. Street lights, cars, signs, and homes are all visible. This source isn't necessarily useful to anything important but is something very interesting to check out. I find it incredibly imaginative and something different; It was a lot of fun for me to take the time to look at!

Online learning

http://weblogg-ed.com/2011/online-learning-isnt-learning-online/

Being able to work on assignments, get instant responses as well as Personalized responses can be extremely helpful when the topic of online learning comes up. However what this article talked about i strongly agree to. Online learning can be very helpful and a way to keep students up to date on everything technologically happening in our world today but it cant be the only solution to education. Online courses are helpful but they can't be a substitution for in school classroom courses. Making sure students are highly involved with the updating community of America is very important but not the only way. Kids should still have the opportunity to use hard cover book if they want seeing as the same thing will be used in class just online. It should be the students decision not a single choice situation. I am highly for advanced technology in school, homes and businesses but it should be peoples decision on what they would like to do.

Schools banning cell phones?

I am fortunate Burlington High School has in fact promoted cell phone use in school. I agree with the fact that cell phones are a distraction but I can also disagree and say that cell phones can be helpful. Cell phones have been used in class to do on line poles, which are an interesting way to check if you got multiple choice answers on a worksheet or homework correct. Using cell phones at lunch to call a parent or if an emergency at home occurred is also very convenient for students. Most students in high school are grown up enough to take responsibility for their own work and keeping good grades. Most high school teachers don't care if students use cell phones solely because they are responsible for understanding and studying the material at hand and if a student chooses to not pay attention or get the work then that is their own fault. Cell phones can be very helpful and important but its all up to the student when and where it is appropriate to use them.

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Christina Aguilera at the Super Bowl

Before the Super Bowl yesterday, Sunday February 6, 2011 Christina Aguilera sang the American National Anthem live. To everyone's surprise later they realized she messed up the words to the Anthem and unknowingly embarrassed herself incredibly. I don't understand how someone who has been a singer her whole life, lived in America her whole life and she doesn't know the correct words to our nations anthem. It truly is a disappointment and sad. However I know my family and I all got a good laugh out of it but it's still really sad on Christina's part for messing up in front of millions of people.

Facebook strengthening students

Students most of the time view teachers as the enemy; the only reason they teach is because they hate students which explains why they seem to cruel. However i've realized their main priority is truly about their students and they aren't here to set us up for failure but to prepare us for what lies ahead. Teachers realize every student is different and excels is certain areas therefore not only do teachers notice students for their academic ability but those who coach a sport or lead an extra curricular activity notice students talents in other physical areas. Facebook is a common interest for all students and I find it extremely interesting that teachers are trying to find new way to reach out to students and expose them to new learning methods, Facebook being one of them. This article shows how Facebook can be used to give extra help to students in need, for the teachers they are able to view the everyday lives of students, family connections in students homes, updated homework for each night if you happen to miss a class, snow days, an atmosphere where students have no excuses, exposing students and teachers to the newly invented technology of this world and lastly mobil access to all these options anywhere, anytime. I feel the use of Facebook would be an amazing new experience for students giving them a way to learn easier and more interesting. However this method could cause distractions not related to school. This idea is both good and bad but definitely a start to moving forward in education for kids.