Why Dont Some People Learn Their Lesson?

After watching some stories on the news about how criminals get put in jail then when they get let out of jail, they go and commit crime again like if they did not learn their lesson from jail. I do not understand why criminals don’t learn their lesson from jail, even though that they will eventually go back to jail some time. Sometimes I wonder why criminals get let out of jail after a few years of being there because when they are let out, they will stat to commit crime again. Sometimes I even wonder why they have jails. I think that it would help solve crime problems if criminals were in jail for around 30 or 40 years or even for life if their crime was that bad, that should at least be enough time for criminals to learn their lesson, unless if they are in jail for life.

Why Are We At War?

In the article “Public's Views of Afghanistan War Have Turned Sour”, it shows that after 9/11 that around 90% of America supported the war in Afghanistan, but now most Americans don’t want to continue fighting in Afghanistan. The reason why we wanted to go to war is because of the terrorist attack on 9/11. About 3,000 innocent Americans died in the attack. After the attack we wanted to find and kill the terrorist that planned this attack. The point of that attack was to try to scare Americans and to make everyone here go crazy. But instead it made us support our nation and to go to war. But now we want the war to end because some of us forgot why we are fighting. Some of us want the war to end because they don’t think that we would get any where from the fighting. But if we have all of our troops come home then that was just a big pointless war and the terrorist would become more powerful and start a war that is worse. So we have to keep fighting so that terrorist will no longer threaten us. I know that war is bad because of the killing but I think that we have to keep fighting until we are safe from terrorist threats.

After Reading “Why Should Your District Continue?” by Karl Fisch, I started thinking about how lucky we are to get an education here in America. Most countries don’t have good schools to go to and some don’t have any schools at all. Some Americans ask why we should learn and what is the point of getting a good education. And some people don’t like school because of homework and rules, but the countries that have bad schools or no schools don’t care about the homework and rules because they see how a good education could be. I think that the reason why Americans don't see how a good education could be is because we have so much here and countries without schools don't have as much as we do. Some Americans don’t see how important a good education could be and how it could effect their lives and themselves in the future. It is amazing of what a good education could do.

New Ways Of Learning

After reading Open Notebook Learning by David Warlick, it made me think about how fast that new technology is coming out. More cell phones and other electronic devices are coming out more frequently then 10 years ago. Technology is not the only thing that is being improved, but teaching and learning is also a new thing that is being improved. Today we are bogging, and using computers to type something or to find something on the Internet in school to learn. Who knows what the next big improvement in teaching and learning will be and what it does. What’s next? Something that you plug into your head to learn something? Computers that you control with your mind? All that I know is that there will be something big and new to improve teaching and learning.

20th and 21st Century Learning

After reading “What Is 21st Century Learning”, I started to notice that there is a big difference between 21st and 20th century learning. The biggest difference is probably that we have more information that is easier to find because we have the Internet. In the 20th century, you had to go to the library or look something up in an encyclopedia to get information that you want. But today we can get that information fast and easy without leaving your house because we have computers and cell phones to look something up. Another thing that is different between 20th and 21st century learning is that we have computers to type something instead of a typewriter. The bad part about a typewriter is that if you make a mistake on your writing, you can’t backspace it, you would have to start over. Another big difference is that we could store something that we typed into a little flash drive that could hold several projects that you did on the computer. One last big difference is that in the 20th century, you would just sit in the class and listen to the teacher and take notes and work. But in the 21st century, you listen to the teacher, take notes sometimes, but unlike in the 20th century we interact with the subject by doing group projects, having a class discussion, and bloging. All of that is a huge difference between 20th and 21st century learning.

The World That We Live In

After reading articles about the wars in the Middle East, I started thinking about how violent our world is. It is shocking that terrorist kill themselves to kill several other people. I don’t get why people want to rule the world and make peoples lives miserable, what is the point of that? Its not like that people would like you and warship you because you rule the world and ruin peoples lives. I don’t understand why people like Bin Laden wanted terrorist to crash airplanes into the World Trade Center. When I actually think about wars and terrorist attacks, I wonder why this is happening and why we are fighting and killing each other.

Technology Is Changeing

I think that it is amazing that how most businesses work, and the way that we are learning is changing because of computers. Also, Facebook and texting is improving our writing. Another way that technology improves our writing is that we can use spell and grammar check. It is interesting that some people learn better from an online class. I wonder when every school will have a computer for every student to do class work on. It is kind of weird to think that most people from the 1970s and 80s thought that it would be impossible for computers to change the way we learn and work.