Take some consideration that this is Hamlet in 2014:
Will I be or won`t I be a graduate of Righetti High School during June of 2014? That is the question. The answer is yes and I am standing here before you giving a speech on how I accomplished my present goals and how I will go through "the road less traveled" (Robert Frost). It is mid-June and it is very hot, so here I go ...
We have all had bumps in the road. Some bumps are larger than others. My mom is having an affair with the "king", she is mentally dead to me, my father has been jailed or presumably recorded as dead by now, and my biggest task is to go to college? How does something like that happen? Well, we all have to do our homework and classwork at some point. Now for the selection of classes, you have to choose them strategically, almost like a game. If you choose the wrong one, you will lose points and would have wasted precious time in the process. Your scholarship packets are your swords and shields when going into battle with the 3 headed admissions officers. Your armory, if built correctly, will get you through the gate on to a better life. If not, you will be eaten up and spit back out to where you started. But, whose to say that we haven`t all defeated those beasts to get through that wonderful gate? Now what you do beyond that gate is up to you. Now you are a grown, well built man, strong enough to defend yourself. You have just started to live your own life and will be improving the lives of your future family from what you have learned in your childhood and adolescent years.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Declaration of (Learning) Independence
We the students of the classroom of Dr. Preston, will come together and revolutionize the learning institutions and teaching strategies for future generations to come. As an individual, I wish to learn more about the Internet and its other many functions
To know some of the acronyms and what is their significance in the Internet realm. To realize that blogging and the Internet overall is an untapped potential waiting to be discovered. To learn why the Internet has its pros and cons and how we can eliminate some of the cons to make the Internet the ultimate tool ever invented. To learn how to correctly type on a standard keyboard.
To know some of the acronyms and what is their significance in the Internet realm. To realize that blogging and the Internet overall is an untapped potential waiting to be discovered. To learn why the Internet has its pros and cons and how we can eliminate some of the cons to make the Internet the ultimate tool ever invented. To learn how to correctly type on a standard keyboard.
No Child Left Un-Tableted
I am truly up for going toward the usage of a tablet only as an all around tool. I like the idea of having the textbooks allin one device instead of carrying 2-3 pounds worth of bound up paper. Somehow I still feel like using the traditional pen and paper because then I know my work is written somewhere and it is not some where lost in the cyberworld. The pen and paper method works because your eyes don`t get really tired from looking at the screen for 7 to 8 hours more or less.
Vocabulary I didn`t understand:
Vocabulary I didn`t understand:
- Adept
- Luddite
- Feasible
- Repudiation/ Kneejerk
- Competence
- Accrued
- apostles
- Caveat
- Dilation
- Raptly
- Besieged
- Bureaucracy
- Conceding
- Clamored
- Metacognitive
- Cognitive
- Consortium
- Plausible
- Proxy
- Ideological
- Ascendant
- Blubious
- Commodified
- Transformative
Will Study for Food
My plan is to attend Allan Hancock College first and then maybe transfer to a four year university such as California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo or California State University, Northridge. I have visited CSUN two or three times with one of them being the time my middle school hosted the graduation ceremony in one of the auditoriums. I have not visisted CP SLO but from the pictures it looks pretty nice and swell. My only concern is that I have heard that California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo is a little racist toward other races, not be full American. I know for a fact that CSU, Northridge is more diverse with their students and their ethnic backgrounds.
My two main majors that I want to pursue are a Business Management and an Environmental Engineering degree, specifically designing and building new ways to produce renewable resources so we no longer have to use fossil fuels. This includes not using coal to generate electricity. My overall pinnacle goal is to completely erase the use for fossil fuels even for objects that claim to be environmentally stable. Environmental stabilty/sustainabilty/ friendly all mean emitting very little or no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
My only knowledge of the two schools is that Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a very hard school to get into. on the other hand, CSUN seems like a more affordable choice considering that I know more about that school and that I know more of where that school is located.
My two main majors that I want to pursue are a Business Management and an Environmental Engineering degree, specifically designing and building new ways to produce renewable resources so we no longer have to use fossil fuels. This includes not using coal to generate electricity. My overall pinnacle goal is to completely erase the use for fossil fuels even for objects that claim to be environmentally stable. Environmental stabilty/sustainabilty/ friendly all mean emitting very little or no greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
My only knowledge of the two schools is that Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is a very hard school to get into. on the other hand, CSUN seems like a more affordable choice considering that I know more about that school and that I know more of where that school is located.
Tools that Change the Way We Think
Passage from Dr. Preston`s post:
From In the Plex by Steven Levy (page 67)
"Back in 2004, I asked [Google founders] Page and Brin what they saw as the future of Google search. ' It will be included in people`s brains, ' said Page. 'When you think about something and don`t really know muchabout it, you will automatically get information.'
'That`s true, ' said Brin. 'Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what`s going on around them and suggest useful information.'
'Somebody introduces themselves to you, and your watch goes to your web page, ' said Page. 'Or if you met this person two years ago, this is what they said to you... Eventually you`ll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."
RESPONSE:
At first glance and some thoughts, the Internet seemed like a really good idea, especially after having included it into the first smartphones. The Internet is where it is a global library, where you can look up any records for a research paper available online and maybe print out some famous paintings from the cyberworld`s grand gallery choices. The Internet is also where you can buy whatever you may desire, from clothes to shoes to electronics and even pre-order food items that are needed in your refrigerator from your local supermarket to be shipped to your house no time flat. Some examples of online shopping are Amazon or eBay, or just search for your preferred retailer and possibly they will have items to be sold online. People now and before, have gone to the library once or more times to check out some kind of book, newspapers, articles, DVD`s, CD`s, and maybe a cassette. But the Internet has its flipside. The very well known hackers are people who get into the Internet mainframe and rearrange some codes or of the like to be rich or to cyberbully or to create a new identity for themselves to not get caught by the federal authority. The hackers are also who make it difficult to decide whether the Internet should be a "free" place to roam or be very enclosed and locked up very well. My suggestion is to for the government to hack into their mainframe and shut them down, so that way we can live in two "free" worlds, one virtual and one in the reality.
The reason I have put the word "free" in quotations is because not everything is liberty or of no monetary value in this life. You have to realize that life isn`t handed to you on a silver platter.
From In the Plex by Steven Levy (page 67)
"Back in 2004, I asked [Google founders] Page and Brin what they saw as the future of Google search. ' It will be included in people`s brains, ' said Page. 'When you think about something and don`t really know muchabout it, you will automatically get information.'
'That`s true, ' said Brin. 'Ultimately I view Google as a way to augment your brain with the knowledge of the world. Right now you go into your computer and type a phrase, but you can imagine that it could be easier in the future, that you can have just devices you talk into, or you can have computers that pay attention to what`s going on around them and suggest useful information.'
'Somebody introduces themselves to you, and your watch goes to your web page, ' said Page. 'Or if you met this person two years ago, this is what they said to you... Eventually you`ll have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer."
RESPONSE:
At first glance and some thoughts, the Internet seemed like a really good idea, especially after having included it into the first smartphones. The Internet is where it is a global library, where you can look up any records for a research paper available online and maybe print out some famous paintings from the cyberworld`s grand gallery choices. The Internet is also where you can buy whatever you may desire, from clothes to shoes to electronics and even pre-order food items that are needed in your refrigerator from your local supermarket to be shipped to your house no time flat. Some examples of online shopping are Amazon or eBay, or just search for your preferred retailer and possibly they will have items to be sold online. People now and before, have gone to the library once or more times to check out some kind of book, newspapers, articles, DVD`s, CD`s, and maybe a cassette. But the Internet has its flipside. The very well known hackers are people who get into the Internet mainframe and rearrange some codes or of the like to be rich or to cyberbully or to create a new identity for themselves to not get caught by the federal authority. The hackers are also who make it difficult to decide whether the Internet should be a "free" place to roam or be very enclosed and locked up very well. My suggestion is to for the government to hack into their mainframe and shut them down, so that way we can live in two "free" worlds, one virtual and one in the reality.
The reason I have put the word "free" in quotations is because not everything is liberty or of no monetary value in this life. You have to realize that life isn`t handed to you on a silver platter.
Filter My Bubbles
The responses to the questions:
A) I learned that privacy is no longer private in this country. Also that the government has been eliminating our freedom to speak or publish little by little.
B) Doing any engine search changes my way of what I am looking at on the Internet because now I know that the government is looking at it and can be used against me in any way.
C) The questions that rose from this video about the Internet in generalis that we have left our faith to technology to protect us from the harm of the Internet. In some ways it is good and in other ways it is really horrible. It is good because you don`t have topay for a human being to be controlling the computer processors and that "gatekeeper" as the video called it works intelligently. In another way the "gatekeeper" isn`t that all intelligent because the algorithms it uses sort of are like bribing a security guard to let you in to that really high end restaurant. the system that Google and Bing and Yahoo are using should be changed for the best of humanity for such reasons as Edward Snowden.
D) I can improve the effectiveness of my searches by going to websites that don`t care who you are or what kind of job you have or what are you are looking for. Those websites I prefer the most because they are there to help and aid you, not to profile you based on the searches. An example of that would be DuckDuckGo.
A) I learned that privacy is no longer private in this country. Also that the government has been eliminating our freedom to speak or publish little by little.
B) Doing any engine search changes my way of what I am looking at on the Internet because now I know that the government is looking at it and can be used against me in any way.
C) The questions that rose from this video about the Internet in generalis that we have left our faith to technology to protect us from the harm of the Internet. In some ways it is good and in other ways it is really horrible. It is good because you don`t have topay for a human being to be controlling the computer processors and that "gatekeeper" as the video called it works intelligently. In another way the "gatekeeper" isn`t that all intelligent because the algorithms it uses sort of are like bribing a security guard to let you in to that really high end restaurant. the system that Google and Bing and Yahoo are using should be changed for the best of humanity for such reasons as Edward Snowden.
D) I can improve the effectiveness of my searches by going to websites that don`t care who you are or what kind of job you have or what are you are looking for. Those websites I prefer the most because they are there to help and aid you, not to profile you based on the searches. An example of that would be DuckDuckGo.
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