Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Catw 5 4.1/ Rewired.

After  reading Rewired by Larry Rosen Ph.D, using technology as a teaching tool is a great method to learn. We all know that the young crowd is more often to pay mind if they're on a phone or computer rather than to learn from a teacher speaking and writing notes on a board.
Rewired by larry Rosen Ph.D is about how Larry Rosen really believes that the best way for preteens and teens to learn is throughtout technology like internet and cell phones. If they include school work with technology, most likely they would be needed to do work but have little interest by doing other things as long as the work gets complete. It states that the best formula to learn is 30 minutes of non teh with an hour of tech that is school work, or multitasking both. Teens may spend alot of time with friends and tech but as teens, thats how their social life is.. But using both tech with learning makes it exciting and makes everyone happy.


I believe that having technology as a tooling method is a great idea and I agree with Larry Rosen. Many teens now live on technology that it's impossible for them to go a day without. SO why not combine both. I know it's never allowed because because the department of education doesn't allow it but it's so boring to sit in a class especially with a dull teacher teaching you a subject you'll soon forget. Now combing both school and tech is the best move because we may relate.


Larry Rosen's formula of using tech for an hour and non tech for 30 minutes a good idea. I catch myself doing this all the time even in school. In my classes I use alot of internet using so why not multi-task a little fun with learning. I see other students do the same thing. I compare how I leanr to a regular classroom to a classroom that has computers,Outcome? Classrooms with tech made it interesting and doesn't make you snooze.


Larry Rosen States "  This is their social life and you cannot deny them that which helps them develop and grow." i couldn't said it better myself. Students or teens based their social life on mobile devices. Myself as a teen, I know what it's like because I grew up with technology era and I can say it's addicitng.


Rewired by Larry Rosen Ph.D shows that one person reached out and studied how us teens learn. The outcome Larry came up was great because it show that, thats the only way we teens pay mind . combing tech and learning makes everyone satisfied.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Catw 4 3.5

After reading the article Let them eat fat by Greg Crister, I believe that fast food is mostly the cause of our health problems. If we continue to keep eating this way, there will be a big chance that it's going to be even more harder to find places that are healthier then it already is.

Let them eat fat is an article about how our nation is runned by fast food. Mainly low income people purchase foods like mcdonalds because it's cheaper.It was said in Pasadena, California, the supersize orders are very popoular. Young black kids that come out of school make their way to mcdonalds and place an order. Within their order they supsersize and item .Meals are now rising in calories. A dietitian says teenagers consume more calories then they're required. Not only is the calories a porblem but the protiens they eat are fat.The higher the ratio goes if the young generation eat these sort of meals the lower the physical activities get per year.
It concerns me that the low income population has the highest problem but it doesn't surprise me. As the article stated young black kids consume fast foods, I believe this statement is true.Where I live I see alot of young kids come out of school and head into a fast food joint. I know because I was one of them. I'm not saying i've stopped  but I cut off fast food alot. I see how it's unhealthy and that I'm really physical active. I would understand why a dietitan would critsize so hard, look at what we let younger people eat.
As much as we want to believe that fast food has "healthy food" I find it very untrue. You kever know what addition ingredients they put . It's crazy how much the calories are going up and so are the carbohydrates. It should really be physical activties rising.
Advertising doesn't make the siutation better ethier.They state that they have healthy foods but its not really advertised and when you do go inside to place and order and look up on the menu its only a very small portion of the menu thats so called "healthy".I notice that when I step into a mcdonalds ,95% i see people eating a cheese burger fries and a soda , 5%  I see people eating a salad and a bottle water. Even with the the salad the salad dressing has tons of calories so it makes no sense at all. Might as well just order a regular combo of a burger fries and soda.
Fast food  has become badly popular according to Greg Critser and its true. Young crowds consuming wrong foods and being less active, bad idea. then they wonder why their so out of shape and tired all the time. they should reallty consider lots of fast foods and opening more healtheir places.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Meatrix Summary Blog 3.4 not finished

The Meatrix
The meatrix is about how a pig named leo comes across a cow named moopheus and moopheus askes him if he wants to know what the meatrix is. Leo is giving a choice the red pill to enter the meatrix and the blue people to live the life he has already known. Leo decides to take the red pill and discovers the real world of the meatrix. It shows how meat is processed Leo gets fed up with what he as seen and been told. He soon gets extremely mad and askes moopheus how can they put an end to this

The meattrix II Revolting
The meatrix is about how in two years changed how people see the meatrix different by not supporting it and getting healthier food because they realize where and how how food is. Leo Chickity and moopheus continue their quest to stop the meatrix

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Net is the Real World 3.3

The article The net is the real world shows us that the net  brings out the realness in people if your not careful and especially with people you think you know.
The net is the real world by Jake Simms and Larry Magid is about how one college student Tyler  Clementi ,who  askes his colleagues for some private time in their dorm till midnight. His request was granted but not his privacy of his roommates had secretly placed a webcam that showed Tyler made out with another guy and was leaked out into the internet .Tyler found out about his roommates stunt and was devastated that he posted a goodbye post on his facebook status and jumped off a bridge into the river where he was discovered dead the following day.”The internet shows tons of graphics of people doing things they wouldn’t do in person” states John Suler. Things that are on the net can ruin a person reputation. How far do we have to go to ask for a little bit of privacy that it’s even leaked onto the internet?
I believe as much as we wanted to have our own privacy we can’t have due to the people and their lack of respect. Now that the internet is more advance with technology anything can happened to anyone and anything. For instants webcams  people can be turn them on and leave them on without  noticing or they can use them to make threats or even farewell videos who ever decides to commit suicide or even in this case invasion of privacy.
Its  funny how you get to know one person and as you try to trust them with anything or ask for a little favor they go behind you back and that’s when you feel like you been betrayed and might lead you to do something you wouldn’t think people would think? Tyler Clementi felted this. As much as this is a sad tragedy, we realize that privacy is never granted when it is asked for. It is either betrayed or exposed, little do we know maybe to the world.
As much as useful or fun the net might be it’s a cruel and dangerous world because of the people that don’t have consideration. We hackers, and c yberbullies that really have no respect for privacy or even respect for themselves for that matter that they go out of their own misery and destroy other people’s lives without noticing or just doing it as a prank and probably boredom.
Invasion of privacy is a huge issue now in days that we have to be careful with the people we talk to or where we are located. As for Tyler Clementi , he took his own life due to lack of privacy and as much as we think we know people and the internet plus technology, We really have no clue. It makes you think how much trust you have in a person don’t  you?

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Linkin Park - Crawling/ artifact 1

                 
                  In class our professor had put on a movie i havent seen in the longest, The matrix. when the movie was over and on my way home for some odd reason  i wanted to listen to one of my favorite groups linkin park and their song crawling. As im on the train i started to relax and really paid mind to what the song was trying to say.Thats when it hit me when listened to the song it says "Crawling in my skin These wounds they will not heal Fear is how I fall Confusing what is real" I saw nothing but the matrix pop into my head and question myself do we really exist in the world we think we live in? Do we really have wounds if we recovery from them? Then it goes There's something inside me that pulls beneath the surface Consuming/confusing This lack of self-control I fear is never ending Controlling/I can't seem.I thought of this as no one can really control themselves if you think about yeah they might have some self control but everyone needs help.Now what am i thinking or how does relate to reality from illusion Take a minute to close your eyes and daze off, now come back, don't you every get that feelin when you space out and come back from where ever your mind was from you question yourself or even look at yourself in the mirror to i really exist. then you start to feel your surrounds to make sure your living the life that you are. For example, When your having a bad day and you close your eyes and say to yourself please let thsi be just a dream or when your sleeping and when your drreaming your dream felted so real you wake up and go whoa did that just really happened? Everythime i hear this i always question myself and everything that surrounds me. Hey call me crazy but haven't you ever question the unknown? Try it sometime

The Truman syndrome 2.2 editing in progress

Thursday, October 14, 2010

blog 2.1 The Innocent and The Orphan/ editing


Innocent Archetype -Best know as a caring child who believes in nothing but good intensions. the innocent one is always dependenable on people and is in need of guidence through life.I chose Percious Moments as an atrifact for the innocent archetype simply because they a