Earth Hour

Yes! I will be participating in Earth Hour. I feel that these events are necessary for our world so that people can think about the impact we have on our world and how to change that. It gets people talking and thinking about our world and how to help it. At the same time, it helps save on energy for a short while and gets people doing other different things they wouldn't normally. It also shows people the luxury of electricity and how much we rely on it in our daily life. It shows how lucky we really are. I think these events are good and great to see how many people are participating. Hopefully it makes them think of the impact on our world they have and how to change it for the future.

Pope, Africa and HIV

I believe that the Pope's comments were very misleading and wrong even though I think he meant good when he said it. Just the way he was trying to get his message across was wrong and controversial. I feel because he is the Pope, which is Catholic, he was only giving his views on condoms and what he thinks of them. But this is a one sided view on the problem and can mislead the people. Because many of the people in Africa are not very well educated this may lead the people to believing other things (eg. they escalate the problem), and the people may make wrong decisions about not using a condom because they believed the Pope, because well is is the Pope. His comments are clearly proven wrong by science and health officers. I see his intentions and believes of why he said what he did but it was wrong of him and may mislead the people. The part when he said that they only make the problem worse is absolutely wrong and was not appropriate to say.

TED talk show

This was very interesting and neat because the guy actually explained it in a normal persons language so that people other than scientists could understand it. It was also interesting to find out that CERN is actually a real place and actually has the LHC in it as explained in the book. The start of the universe has always intregued me, and it is interesting to hear professionals talking about it so I can explain. It also shows like the "H" particle that scientists still are working on solving it and shows even after the many years since the start of the universe scientists have still not discovered everything about how it began and how we are here. The LHC is amazing and crazy how big it is and how fast they can get the protons moving in there. Science has always amazed me and it is great to have big scientific projects explained to me in a way i understand. Very interesting stuff

A+ For Everyone

I feel this is a good idea. This is a university course where the smartest academic kids are taking classes, and usually are the ones who do their work. If they were given the A+ I feel it would take a lot of stress of their backs and let them concentrate better and actually just learn and get a better understanding instead of worry of projects and just giving the teacher what they want to see. These are academic students so they will take their own education into their hands and they are paying to learn so i don't feel they will just not show up i feel they will be responsible and learn. I feel this way because if they just stop going then when they get into the real world and get the first job they will be confused and not know anything and will end up getting fired and will find out they put their money to waste by not showing up and learning. These kids want to get a good education and get the best jobs so they are going to take the initiative to go and learn so that they can impress their employers with the knowledge. If they decide not to go its their loss and they will not have the knowledge to do their job and will waste their money. I think you will see the people actually be a lot smarter because they wont be stressing over deadlines and projects and can just concentrate on learning. It would be to the benefit of the students and their initiative to learn. Good idea, i give credit to the professor

Classroom Connection

I found it very interesting doing the different puzzles everyone came up with. I enjoyed solving them and amazed by some of the different ones we had. It was neat to see every ones train of thought and how they went about making there puzzle. Every ones was different and unique than the others which made it more fun to try and solve them. Some were harder than others and some had a lot more thought than others. I just loved being interested when you either solved one or was told what the secret was behind it. I thought some peoples puzzle were very ingenious and interesting. Most were done in ways i never thought of doing and i think that's what interested me. I enjoyed solving the puzzles and trying to 'crack the code'. Interesting of the way some people think and what they came up with.

IDC

I agree with Ken Robinson's point where schools are taking creativity out of students. Teachers focus so much on textbook work and the knowledge part and everything is so structured in our system. When students get projects they are given an outline of what to do, this puts limits and restrictions on the project which the students must follow to get a good grade which takes away from any creativity. Students can't be creative when they are given an outline they must follow. Not all students are able to strive in this type of system and because they can't strive they are labelled as having a 'learning disability', but its not their disability in a way its the system that doesn't have the proper system for these students to strive in. Not everyone is all for the textbook work and they struggle and learn in different ways and if these needs aren't met then they struggle. I feel the thing that made me think the most about the talk he gave was that we are all born creative and we are grown out of it. I think that is a very strong statement and he backed it up with the examples of little kids being creative and not afraid to be wrong. When these kids go through the school system there creativity is taken away by outlines and structed textbook work. This takes away there creativity which they once had. I think this is a good argument that needs to be looked at seriously and changes need to be made in our system to allow creativity in our students.

Oak Island Theory!

Oak island has many different mysteries of what is at the bottom of the money pit. Some opinions are crazy others have been supported well with evidence and theories. But what do I think is at the bottom of this trap filled pit you ask.After reading the article I lead to believe that whatever it is at the bottom of the pit is very important and I think it will change and affect all of us, an Apocalypse. Now what could it be that could change everything? Well, I have narrowed all the possibilities in my mind down to one of three possibilities into what is at the bottom of the pit. First, there may be a large lump sum of money that will make the finder of it very very wealthy. It may be hidden in chests by pirates who didn't want anyone to find it. I believe it is a large sum because pirates are known to be lazy so for them to go through all this effort and ingenuity would make me believe that it was a large sum they didn't want anyone to find.Secondly, It could be The Holy Grail that was hidden and was not inteded on beig found. This would be an asstonishing discovery and would affect a lot of people.Lastly, it could be the proof that Shakespeare did not write all the plays that he took credit for. This would change everything and shock the world and english teachers and education would never be the same again. This proof is very important and would be worth going through the time and efforts in order to hide it so well.