PLN # 5

The article I read today was called Is Payment For Good Grades Legitimate Motivation in this day and age? by think: lab. This article I thought was really good because it talks about if paying children to learn will it help motivate them to get better grades. I think that paying children for every good grade they get, an A or B, they should get payed. I think this because if the student doesn't try hard it's probably because they have nothing to motivate them to get a good grade. I know that I have been motivated every year before school starts to get good grades by thinking about collage or sports. You need to have good grades to get into any kind of collage or you need good grades to play sports for your school. After a while though that motivation of getting good grades fades away. It fades away because I realize that I have a few more years for collage or I don't have to play sports. So the good grades die down and become terrible grades. I think money is a good motivation because almost every kid wants to get paid, especially for doing something good.
On the other hand though money might not be the best idea for some students. The reason for this is because if the student is just a straight A kid or is just really smart at every class they will get paid no matter what. I think that for that student its not as exciting as it is for a below average student, because they don't really have a good motivation for school. So I think paying students for every good grade is still a good idea but I also think that we should be rewarded for other goals that we achieve and do well on.
If we do this amazing idea we will probably see grades in schools rise up and be really well. Keep in mind though your not just paying them for grades, your paying them for their good grades. So if they are still failing they don't have to be paid.

PLN #4

Today I read an article called I don't want to Integrate it, I want to embed it by Jeff Utecht. This article talks about how people[adults] want technology to affect teaching and learning. Which means that instead of trying to put new technology in classes, we should just start over and build from that. So for example, English class is taught with books and paper and a pencil. Well now if we start fresh and build from what we already know, we can teach English classes with laptops. At the end of this article it asks questions that really had me thinking about technology and how it should be in our learning enviorment. I agreed with Jeff that instead of talking about putting technology is students education or trying to "integrate" it, why can't we just actually put it in without thinking over it many times? This can relate to the world around us because in almost every state and country there are children and adults getting education and teachers teaching without using technology. Technology is becoming larger and larger these days, for example new cell phones, new computers, etc. . So that is why I think it's important to have technology in our learning education.

PLN week 1 #1

Today I read an article titled "If not Eco-Friendly...How about Eco-Amiable?" by Jeffrey Utech and I agree with him on how people want to stop global warming but never can. The reason for this is that, like what Mr. Eshel said, there are people that want to change one thing but not another that also causes global warming. For example, there are people that are concerned on our car usage but not the use of electricity. Or you could be concerned about the use of electricity but not how we use air travel and so on. Mr. Eshel is not the only one though that is trying to get peoples attention on how to stop global warming. John Mayer is another writer and artist that is trying to show those in the world the damages they are doing to the enviorment. For example, his song "Waiting on the world to change", talks about what we need to do to help stop the damaging to the things around us.


I think what matters the most out of the article i just read, was that one little thing you do to try and help the enviorment can go a far distance.
The world around us needs every person to just stop using non natural resources because those are the main things that are killing the earth. For example, hair spray, cars, cell phones, etc. .
With the items I just listed, they are not only causing air pollution, but they are also killing animals and humans. Smoking and second hand smoking is also one of the big things that are damaging those around us and the air zone.