PLN 6 S2

Today I read an article called "Schoolboys Face Court in Racial Taunting" by Myung Oak Kim. This article talked about how a minority was taunted and followed by three boys that continuously chanted "KKK". This suprised me because no one should be treated like this. Society has come to far and progressed to much to go back to this kind of treatment to other races. Though racism will always exsist, no one should be treated like this. Just because the boy was different doesn't mean he should be reminded of how African Americans were treated by saying "KKK". The KKK was a group of people who brutally murdered African Americans just for their beliefs and color of there skin. Even though this was long ago, it clearly still exsists in this society, when it shouldn't. We are all the same, and we should all be treated equally.

PLN 5 S2

Today I read a post about how newspapers are becoming less popular. This post is important because it talks about how technology is becoming the main source for information. This relates to me because I use technology everyday, and I never read the newspaper. All of the information i hear about comes either for the television or from the internet. It is hard to believe that newspapapers are becoming less used when they have been around for so long, but technology is advancing. It is much easier to use the internet to find any information, and that is what people are doing. This relates to the World because we are all starting to get information and learn about things through the internet. This is just another way we are all connecting. There are new sources that we are learning from and this makes the future unpredictable, we never know whats going to happen with the technology we have today.

PLN 4 S2I

Today I read a post about how students pay a price for cell phones, literally. This post talks about how technology is all around us and how we use it all the time. This relates to me because every day I use technology, at home and at school. In my english class we use laptops everyday to further our learning experience. I also have a cell phone and iPod that I use everyday as well. Technology has been growing and using it each day will allow us to grow with it. This relates to the world because technology connects us all. Doing pln's connects us all. We have the opprotunity to read and learn about what's going on in ourown city or across the country. We use technology without even realizing it. Having a cellphone or iPod is normal for a teenager, we are so use to having one that we don't even realize what we could do with it or how advance it is. Technology is all around us, we use it every day at home and at school, it is a part of our lives.

PLN 2 S2

Today i read a post about the future of technoloygy for children. This post talks about how growth in technology for youth is unclear. It does not seem like tecnology is advancing enough. Is technology preparing us for the future? We do not know how much or how little tecnology is going to advance in the future, because that time has not come yet. We know that is will be...

"More collaborative
More globally aware
Less dependent on paper
More active
Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext
More connected
Editors of information"


We have no idea how technology will help us in the future. It could advance in ways we never thought it could, or it could stay at the stages above.

PLN 1-S2

Today I read a post in the Thinking Stick about how students are talking about projects outside of the classroom. This post talks about how teenagers are taking the conversation and thinking beyond the walls of the classroom. I think that it is important to have such creative and innovative projects that it causes the students to get involved and want to learn more and discuss it with others. If the students are interested in the things that are going on in the classroom they can spread there ideas and involve others. This relates to me because I have seen students that have homework and projects that they are excited to work on and want to tell their friends about it. Learning should be fun and it should be an exciting experience. This post was important because it takes things that happen in the classroom and opens more doors.