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In the Nata Villages blog "Community Educators" what matters the most is educating the community about HIV/AIDS because it helps people know if they have it and what to do if they carry the disease. HIV/AIDS is a critical disease that affects people especially in the Nata village. Majority of the people do not know what to do when they have the disease, but thanks to the Tebelopele people in the Nata village are educated about Basic facts on HIV/AIDS, Progression of HIV infections in the body, Opportunistic infections, Reducing stress, Adherence, and Nutrition. All of these things will help the people's health and their families deal with the terrible disease. I can connect to this blog because I have had people tell me about HIV/AIDS, but I have never been around someone who has the disease. I would like to help people become educated about HIV/AIDS and many other critical diseases or even natural causes. It is important for people to know about these diseases because that is the only way we can prevent them. This matters to the world because HIV/AIDS is affecting a huge amount of the population and we need to fix this in order to live in a better world. We need to educate people so that they know if they are affected by the disease and they won’t spread it to other people. Over all what matters the most in the Nata villages "Communities Educators" is educating the community about HIV/AIDS because it will help people know what to do if they are affected.

PLN 5

In Karl Fisch's short video "What If" what matters the most is limiting to basic materials for educational purposes. Over the past hundreds of year, the same pattern has been occurring. Whenever a better invention comes out, it is either bashed by the public or fully accepted by majority of the public. People keep using the argument "what about the old fashion way?" but will we come to a time when the old fashion way is using the internet or email? I can connect to this video because a lot of my teachers are against the internet or calculators. I honestly think that Email is a great thing. It helps save trees and time. I also can agree with banning the internet because people abuse it. But as humans, we are going to go with our natural instinct of using the easier way. Most people any day would choose the internet over the library. This matters to the world because it is saying that we could use simple materials to still receive a good education. We still can get by with basic materials. So much money is used on high tech calculators and fancy projectors that benefit us just as much as regular calculators and chalkboards. We Americans need the best and think that our education will progress so much more with high quality materials, but people who don’t have those nice materials are still learning just as much. Over all what matters the most in Karl Fisch's "What if" is limiting to basic materials for educational purposes.

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In the short video Life= Risk, by Dale Basler, What matters the most is the benefits of failing because it teaches people that there is a positive side to failing. The short video talked about how failing only makes you stronger and builds you. This matters because people need to realize that when they fail, it isn’t a call telling you to quit, it’s a call telling you to try harder and reach that goal. It is a very motivating message that everyone could benefit from. This film matters to me because it shows me that I am not the only person in the world that has failed. There are many times that I have been cut from a team or not given a medal and my reaction to failure is quitting. I never actually quit, but I always feel like I should. This short video has now encouraged me to continue reaching my goals because everyone has failed. This matters to the world because it will help encourage people to keep trying when they have been knocked off their high horse. The world would be a more positive place because people wouldn’t have to feel sad and hurt when they have failed to reach their goals. Overall, what matters the most in the film Life=Risk by Dale Basler is never giving up.

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In the Nata village blog "No Child left Behind" by............ what matters the most is providing an education for every child because they want for the children to have good futures. The village is highly affected by aids and wants the young and innocent to have a fair chance to succeed in life. They provide education to all the children, even outside the class room because they wanted for every child to make a difference and have the knowledge to do so. I can connect to this because I think that education needs to be provided to everyone. Every child should be given an education no matter what. This matters to me because it makes me appreciate school more. Children in Africa and all over the world would do anything to go to a one room dirt floor school house to learn, and most children in America and other places despise school. This blog matters to the world because it is sending the message that if one small affected poor village can supply education for every child, then so can anyone else. The world is fully capable of granting education to everyone, and that is what needs to be done. The world needs to come together and supply these wonderful volunteers with proper materials to teach these young minds. Overall, what matters the most in the Nata Village Blog is providing an education to every child.

PLN 2 Did you know?

In Karl Fisch's Did You Know presentation, the facts about the skyrocketing amounts of people using technology matters the most. These facts matter the most because they are portraying the eye-opening message of how much time we devote to useless things. As mentioned in the video, today’s 21 year olds have watched 20,000 hours of TV, played over 10,000 hours of video games, talked 10,000 hours on the phone, and these statistics were taken in 2006! All of those numbers adds up to 4 and a half years! Looking back on your life, you might wish that you had those four years back again instead of watching repulsive reality TV shows or playing violent video games all day long and wasting the sunny days. We could experience so much more for ourselves if the amusing traps didn’t exist. If more of us dedicated that time to fight causes that are destroying people’s lives, then our knowledge and world peace would increase so much more. People would also be healthier. Instead of using the Internet and TV for entertainment, people would amuse themselves by exercising their bodies and minds. Another thing that matters so much in this presentation is the quote “ we are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist…in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet”. This quote is saying that the students today are being taught how to solve problems that are not problems yet. This matters because it is teaching people to prevent problems, but also wasting there time because we don’t know if they are even going to be those problems. We all just need to focus on the current problems by getting an exact view on the situation instead of watching it on the news are reading it on the internet. All in all what matters the most in the presentation Did You Know by Karl Fisch, are the facts about how much time we waist using technology.

Some of the ways that machines are using us is they are distracting us, they are absorbing our knowledge, and they are convincing us to believe and do certain things. Machines are distracting us because they are our main entertainment. They are distracting us from the natural world and all of its tasks. Instead of experiencing something for ourselves, we explore it on the web. Machines are becoming addictions to the majority of society. They suck us in to there aw factors and entertain us. They brainwash us to rely on them. Machines are using us by absorbing our knowledge. They are doing this by letting us blog, communicate, and research on the web. Machines are advertisers. They persuade us to buy things, do things, share things, see things, and much more. They are poisoning our minds with disturbing thoughts and eventually convince us to do things. For an example, T.V. shows convince viewers to participate in obnoxious behavior, buy unusual products, and do stupid things. But we made these powerful beasts. Something made by man is outsmarting man itself.