PLN 8: Economic debt

In the video U.S. Economy and Financial System Bankrupt --What's next?, submitted by singletreefilms, it talked about how we are bankrupt, because we spend to much money everyday, and our competing countries are paying their workers 75% to 95% less money for the same work that they do. In simpler terms, that’s called cheap overproduction. To fix this problem, we tried moving some of our biggest money making facilities to different parts of the world. For example, last year we moved a Chrysler dealership to Mexico. Yet the economic results weren’t too high still. So we took the factory apart and moved it to China. We made some money. The point of this is, is that if we started globalizing more businesses; we might start making some money to get rid of our debt. I think that this affects my life because, even know we don’t think about it, but our country is in some serious debt, and when we start voting against raising or lowering taxes, we need to stop to think about what’s best for the country. We didn’t get where we are today because of one person, we got here because we are a nation of people, and we decided what was best for everyone, and not one person/ourselves in particular.

PLN 7: OPEC's Oil Prices

In this video about OPEC’s Oil prices, money matter most to them. In the video, it was saying how OPEC decided to cut 1.8 million barrels of oil that the sell, because there isn’t as high of a demand for oil, and their theory is that it will eventually get more people to buy oil, and then there will be a larger demand for it again, and then they will raise prices again, and end up making the money that they want. This affects my life because, oil prices are going down, and this will save my parents money, and we will be able to do more fun things as a family, because we have saved money. It will also save money for the whole economy, so we might be seeing a more booming economy, because more and more people now have money to spend.

PLN 6: Global Warming

In the video Global Warming 101 from National Geographic, saving energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels matters to the earth. This video talked about how global warming has evolved over time, and how/what we can do to slow the processes of the greenhouse effects. Global warming started during the Industrial Revolution, and that was a time of huge industrialization, and lots of CO2 and methane were being produced, which eventually made its way to the atmosphere, and got trapped. This causes heat to be trapped under the atmosphere, and the earth just basically bakes, and examples of that, would be, all of the ice around the world that’s melting, and more droughts in hotter places, like deserts, and Africa. Global warming is a problem that we can do something about. How can you do your part to help our home?

PLN 5: LIVING TOMORROW

In the video Living Tomorrow by FORBES, I think that making things better, and making life easier to live matters to FORBES corporation. This video talked about a new product that you could buy later on, for probably a large amount of money, big and better things do cost money, but basically it was a bathroom mirror. This was no ordinary mirror, you can watch television on it. It even times you while you are brushing your teeth, and when the time is up, it scans your teeth checking if you did a good job, and if you didn’t, it will show you where you need to brush harder to get all of them clean. Technology these days is getting better and better, but in the end its going to cost you more than you could imagine.

PLN 4: Pay Attention

“How do students learn? Are they impersonal, logical, spatial, intrapersonal, musical, Linguistic, Naturalist, or Bodily-Kinesthetic learners?” In the video Pay Attention by an unknown publisher, technology matters to both a child and a teen’s education. This video explained how now a day’s people are digital learners, and how we got that way is from all of the new technology that has come out, and everyone is familiarizing themselves with. For example, today’s college graduates have/had spent ten thousand hours playing video games, over ten thousand hours talking on their cell phones, and roughly twenty thousand hours watching television. As digital learners we send two hundred thousand emails and instant messages by the time they graduate college. Schools around the world should respect the fact that people now days learn better when they are focused on a certain type of technology, such as iPods, podcasts might impact millions of people, and some people would learn better from that type of thing. Who knows, we might someday be totally computerized, and we might not ever need to go to school again.

PLN 3: Education Today

In the video Education Today by Tom Woodward, technology matters to education, and they way people learn. Kids today learn better by using technology, and technology is getting more and more sophisticated. People are depending more and more on technology, and we are learning things from our own inventions. The average student today will have 10 to 14 jobs in a lifetime, and more than half of them, if not all of them, will deal with new technology. So why not learn about technology, and then let the technology teach us.

PLN 2: Did you know??

In Karl Fisch’s video “Did you know”, I learned that a more things happen in a day then you can ever imagine, and things around the world are improving day by day. For example, approximately every 8 seconds, 34 babies are born, that many new lives into the world in one day. About 230,000 people or more signed up for MySpace in a day. More than 3,000 books are published in a day. Many of the majors in college today didn’t exist long 20 or so years ago. Six hundred million internet devices were made in 2006. So I guess you could say that tons of things happen in such little time.