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I read "In Focus: Ground Zero" by Mary Altaffer from the Denver Post subscription. It is about how many people walk by ground zero everyday and hardly pay any attention it now that new construction is going on there. It also talks about how the Islamic community wants to build a mosque down the street from ground zero. This makes me wonder why they would do this because it could bring so much more pain to the families that lost someone in 9/11 but also i think that it would be a good thing so that the Islamics could almost reestablish their reputation as a non violent, non-terrorist religion. It effects education because we are taught about the amendments to the constitution and in the first amendment it gives us the right to religion, so this would be practicing that right. It effects the world because the mosque is big news right now in the world to whether people think that the Islams should built it or not. I though that this was a great article and really makes you think.

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I read the article "Giant-pumpkin growing brothers prepare for family-friendly festival and weigh-off" from the Denver Post subscription. It is about two brothers that are growing a 1000+ pound pumpkin for a contest here in Colorado. In order to get this big it has to grow at least 30 pounds a day. This matters to me because it made me realize how we are moving forward and getting more advanced in almost everything from technology to agriculture. This matters to education because people are actually learning and figuring out how to do things like this. This matters to the world by if we can get that big of pumpkins then we could probably make other fruits and vegetables that big which will change prices and quantities of food, and a lot of food would go to waste in the end. I thought this article was both informational and a little surreal.

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I watched "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" by Mike Wesch. It was about how much easier the web is to use then anything else, he made a four minute video into something much more then it actually is. It matters to me because i do a lot of typing and have never thought about how changeable typing is compared to writing on paper, also it has changed the way i will write for the rest of my life. It matters to education because soon no one will be writing, it will all be on a computer and people might eventually forget how to write and kids in the next generation wont even understand the concept of why we would ever write something without a computer.because they are so much more use to pressing buttons then pen on paper. It matters to the world because technology keeps improving and it has already have a huge impact on the world so soon everything will be online, there will be no newspapers or even books, everything will be done on the computer which frightens me a little bit.

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"Footprints In The Digital Age" by Will Richardson is about how posting personal things on the internet good and bad can define our futures. He talks about how what future schools and jobs are going to base us off of is what kinds of posts we have online, and how we need to be careful of what we post on our blogs because we only want A+ work and not even C work on it. If you post something rude or disgusting online and a school sees it they will automatically choose the A+ student over you. 80% of kids use the internet daily which means that they are most likely posting things and some which could be rude so some kids have already ruined their chances of getting the job they want or getting into that school they have always wanted to go to just by posting something online.

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The video "A Vision of Students" by Mike Wesch really makes you think about what we learn in school and how it is relevant to your life and how we will integrate our school knowledge into our lives. The video has interesting facts in it like how students will spend hundreds of dollars on textbooks and never even open most of them, and one person said that only 18% of her teachers know her name, which sounds crazy now since all of my teachers know my name but when your class is usually made up of over 100 students it will probably sound like a pretty big percentage. These things matter to me because i want to do as well as i can in school and get to know my teachers well but it seems like that might be hard after watching this. It is interesting because it is matters to education because it is about how education effects us and how it play a major role in our lives. It matters to the world because we are the future and we will be based off of our education for the most part.