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The article, "Our Googley advice to students", explains that at Google the employees are all a big team that gets along well. This means that everyone works together as a team and problem solves.This happens because there is so much freedom to say what they think about the projects. With this kind of workplace creativity is very abundant. With good communication skills everybody knows what's going on in the workplace. Since everyone is very friendly and open minded then there is more of a willingness to experiment. Another additional benefit to this environment is when there is a new employee to the workplace everyone will welcome them and teach them the ropes without feeling a sense of competition.

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In the article Keyboard vs. Pen by Virginia Beringer I agree with the results of that article. When writing on the computer I tend to be more lazy with spelling and grammar because I know that the computer will check it and I can go back and fix it when I'm done. While writing I am more careful especially when writing in pen because if I mess up then I have to restart. Since I usually don’t use a keyboard to write, I write I go pretty fast and don’t usually have a lot of mistakes.

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In the article "Footprints in the Digital Age" by Will Richardson, he talked about how his kids wouldn't be able to be Googled well. He's not saying they won't be able to use Google but that when they type there names into Google they won't find themselves like they wanted. This also relates to the Digital Footprint article that we read in class. Depending on how big your digital footprint is, is how much and how widley you will be known. An example would be when while I was reading this article I decided to Google myself and it came up with my science fair ranking in the 8th grade at my old middle school. He just talked about how if you want to be able to Google yourself, then you need to get involved.

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In the video from Mr. Fisch called the 2020 Vision, it described what would happen in the future like Google and Microsoft teaming up and making almost a monopoly of the computer industry and how the 100 dollar laptop project successfully sent it's first real $100 laptop in 2014 to countries like Africa and they were powered by the Google Grid. This is made of highly efficient solar cells. With the price of laptops around $400 they were considered a mandatory school supplies. This meant that everyone at Arapahoe had a laptop so the school was all digitally organized. While in the process of going digital the school brought in Google Cam to make sure, even if you weren't at school, you could still be in the class with Skype and making the video a pod-cast. The school was now completely digital know and they were doing everything to improve it.

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Don't, Don't, Don't vs. Do, Do, Do by Will Richardson talked about how when he went to a school where he presented for the teachers. While he was walking in he picked up a packet that explained what students can't do with the computers at the school, and as he read it, he thought that he would beg not to use the computers because you could barely do anything on them. It shouldn't talk about what you can't do, but what you can do on the computers, like you can publish your best work on our websites and you can edit your papers to make them better to help you learn. You should try to encourage rather then discourage. Some say use the carrot not the stick.

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In the article "Reasoning Our Way In" by David Warlick, it talks about how when he was a kid growing up there was only one kind of watch, a analog watch and now when you see a watch it's digital. When he sees his children playing video games he asks them what the rules are, but they don't know. What they do is go into the game without knowing the rules or goal and learn as the game knows. They are ready to work the problem rather than remember the combination. Through this process we learn to go in open minded to situations which we haven't learned or dealt with before. This shows that kids don't know sometimes, but they have better reasoning when they are younger then older.

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In the video "A Video of Students Today" by Dr. Wesch, there is a class room with students that are in college and hold up papers that talk about how long they spend talking on the phone or on Facebook or working on homework each day. It' interesting how many of them don't do there homework or don't even show up to class. How they can do whatever they want without the teacher carring. Don't you think that the students should do there work so that they can get a good job? It's up to them but they should be a little more responsable.

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In Mr. Fisch's new video "Did You Know 4.0" was in a way simalar to his other video we watched in class but not really. This one talked about how soon peoples phones would be their computers and what used to fit in a building now fits in you pocket. And how that in the future, near or far, that we will be able to have micro chips installed in us and use that as a computer. How technology will change us, the human race, find people and places easier then before. How it will change buildings, car and life. I like this quote that I read that might go with this video "The future isn't what it used to be."

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In the article "The New Literacy" by Clive Thompson it talks about how we're in a new era of writing and that formal writing is dieing art. A professor at Stanford conducted a study that took place from 2001 to 2006 and she collected over 14,000 writing samples. These samples included journals, essays, blogs, chat sessions and such. After looking these over she discovered that writing isn't dieing it's being revived and used more than ever. About 38% of the writing is done outside the class room. It also means that our generation is doing the most writing in a long time. which relates to the computers that know everything, will these people keep on handwriting or will they just put the computer aside and go play sports? You decide.