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“Confidence Lost” by David Warlick is about how confidence from education is disappearing. Warlick Talks about how he was studying a professor jotting down notes about his students. This affects education because teachers need to be interested in their students motivation and education. Also In the article he talks about how his friends daughter came home from the school the first day of sixth grade and said her principal told the student will not have fun this year, instead all they will be doing is learning. Educational learners need to realize kids do care about education but the majority of learning is no fun at all. If their teachers were motivational to their students and a fun person to learn from then kids would do better in that certain subject. Students don’t want a boring teacher giving them two hours of homework and do this every night. This matters to me because I need those teachers to motivate me in doing well in school and well in my future. Learning is a necessity but it also needs to be a fun thing to do also.

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In David Warlicks “Education Reform is Re-establishing, Redefining and Retooling”, is a story about how kids are being taught as an assembly line. David says he takes a break away from school one year and works in a factory and his job was to measure each part to make sure each was the same size and worked the same. When he does this he realizes kids are beaing taught this way. He states kids are treated as raw materials and just graduates of a finished product. Also, children are run through assembly lines being installed with reading, math and science skills just under the theme of a “Race to the Top” attitude of the schools. This affects me because this makes me think that my school is just making me learn and do well just to make the school look better and not actually make my future look better. It makes me think schools are just selfish and corrupt. However, I do believe the majority do plan to help the students to a brighter future than make themselves look better. This affects the world because if you do attend a corrupt school then you do not have to learn and get good grades to make your school better but do it for yourself and make you look better. So I ask, are the schools just selfish and corrupt or do you think they are here for the better good?

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In Clay Shirky’s “ How Cognitive Surplus Will Change The World” it talks about how people need to use the concept of the Cognitive Surplus to better the world. He talks about how peoples creativity, and the idea of using free time to do something productive other than just sitting on the couch being lazy. This video matters to me because it shows me that I need to think outside of the box and not thing like the average person. To go with that statement it also proves I need to work harder to accomplish my goals. As a student I need to do everything I can to succeed in school by getting good grades and being a motivator to my peers around me to do well in school. Also, as an athlete I need to give 110 percent in everything I do to make my self play better and to make sure my teammates around me are motivated to give everything they have to make them and our team better. This motivation is just like Sir Ken Robinsons video Changing Education Paradigms to help motivate our selves and other students around us. This deeply affects the world because with hard work and creativity people will live a better and more brighter future.

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In the video “Changing Education Paradigms” by Sir Ken Robinson it talks about how public education wants to change how they teach the students of the 21^st Century. The video talks about how the way kids are learning are not motivating them. In fact, kids are less motivated in today’s world and they don’t have any motivation to go to college or they do not pay attention in class. this affects me because if teachers and public school systems are trying to figure out how to motivate children then what does that make us students today? Are they just using us to figure out how to help the next generation? Or do they just expect us to get motivated ourselves? Well I do not know if these are the intentions but as a student this means I have to work as hard as I can and get motivated to do well in school. This affects the world because kids need to find motivation in them selves and not seek help from anyone but them selves. Students need to realize education is the key to having a better and brighter future. So I ask you, do you expect to find motivation in yourself or expect someone to tell you what your motivation is?

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In David Warlick’s Is the New Landscape Changing our Shopping Practices, it talks about how online prices and online products rose this year on Black Friday. Prices rose from an average of 170 dollars to 190 dollars this year. This went up 12 percent from last year. The most shocking percentage is the fewer pages viewed by shoppers on purchasing an item and the fewer the items visited. This means that people are knowing what to buy and they are doing reasearch on the product before they buy it. This matters to me because even though the world is going into recession people are still spending their money. I think this is a good and bad thing. I think this is a good thing because people are starting to get more confidence back into the economy and they are starting to spend the money they earned.  This is a bad thing only if people are buying unecessary products. Like instead of buying a new sink they need for their home, they buy a flatscreen for their own pleasure. This matters to the world because these statistics show that the economy is getting better. They show that people are gaining confidence back and they can start having a new hope.