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Chapter 5

Funding! They hit the nail on the head by saying, "American public schools do not have enough funding to do their job." Yeah money isn't everything, but it can certainly make for a much more environmentally sound atmosphere and all the "things" you can do in your room to educate your students. Now technology being such a vital role in students' lives, its important to keep up with technology and all of the available resources out there.

Another thing sometimes discussed is the possibility of cutting a recess to get more classroom time. They found through their study that recess actually primes the brain and gets it ready for learning. Besides, it gives them a little break and some exercise, at least for some of them.

Another thing I found to be true is how they talked about peers explaining things to one another and how they tend to do it better sometimes than even teachers can do. The web design class would be so true. A student would probably get much more out of it from a classmate than a teacher who is learning it for the first time. They are able to just make things more relevant to each other and like previous chapters have stated, this generations brains are just wired differently.

Chapter 9

Hmmm...I found it quite interesting that more people under 30 voted than people over the age of 65. And with that, the 18-24 age group had a 11% increase in voting. People are seeming to become more interested in what is going with the US and what the US is doing around the world with fighting the War and such.

I think Barack has a way with people and his social networking has a way with that. He's done so much with things and raised a significant amount through his website on his donations page. What makes Obama so popular is that he uses the internet as a connecting tool with people rather than as a broadcasting tool as Hillary Clinton does. I really think that this helped with the likeability of Obama as it showed with him having over 1 million friends online, whereas Clinton only had around 330,000 friends. Obama had his own website and had people such as Will I Am and Scarlett Johansson helping his cause.

The last thing I found to be quite interesting was the idea of using of web 2.0 to set up a community discussion board to help with making communities a better place to live. This way people who live in these communities, as well as politicians, would be able to share ideas of what they would like to see happen in their communities. This way people who be able to become more engaged in political life and get them thinking about the issues and active in their communities.