PLN: Week 4-Post 7: grandma

I read the article "Driver Accidentally Hit Grandma" from the Rocky Mountain News. It talks about a 21 year old who accidentally backs up and hits his grandma; she died.

This reminded me of a Oprah i had once watched but the grandma had run over her 4 year old grand son. this is a serious problem. it happens alot. Also one day Sami, Shannon and I had gone to king soopers one day for lunch as we were walking out we say an older man struggling to walk. All of the sudden a bus had started to back out clueless of the old man behind her. He was hooting and hollering STOPPPPPP! STOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP! He was a little hard to understand. He was almost knocked down when Sami started running toward the window of the driver yelling. The driver finally stopped and realized what had happened after asking if the old man was okay we stood there for a second and watched the old man yell at the driver. I think he might have been a sailor when he was younger but that's just a guess.

Now they put cameras on the bumpers of cars so that we can see what is behind you when your backing out. I think this is magnificent! Way to save life's! Also this blog is also about death I think I need help.

PLN: Week 3-Post 6 seatbelts

I read the article "Seat Belt Use at Record High" from the Rocky Mountain News. It had said that more people then ever were wearing there seat belt.

It's illegal not wearing a seat belt an most people forget it, if people knew remembered it was illegal I think it would be more strict. Also I feel like when people get pulled over it's like they turn around and make sure that everybody in the car is wearing a seat belt or they say hurry buckle up. When you think about it is it really that hard to buckle up or would you rather die for not taking 2 seconds to put your fricken seat belt on? Seat Belts matter because its life or death. People should care because of are people are losing loved ones and friends.This is important because seat belts save lives.

Death sort of seems like a common theme from my blogs, probably because I fear death so greatly. I feel really bad about saying that when I claim I am a Christian. I as a Christian shouldn't fear death but embrace it for I get to be with Jesus. But I guess I fear most not being able to live my life, see who I end up marrying, see what job I get, pretty much just see were I go in life.

The article says that Colorado is at an all time high with 81 percent of adults wearing there seat belts. That’s pretty cool! There’s still is 19 percent of people not wearing seat belts. That just stupid.

PLN: Week 3 - Post 5 grades

I read the article "What if We Didn't Have Grades?" by Karl Fisch. It asked the question; What is your worst fear about what could happen if we did away with grades? It was based towards teachers but I thought it was a good question.

I know I've always wanted to not have grades. It's like every students dream. no grades means I don't have to do homework or come prepared to class. I mean why do homework if I'm not going to get a grade? Why sit around studying when I'm not going to get graded on my hard work and effort? Without grades there's really no incentive to learn. Grades are who we are, good grades put the nerd in nerd. I think that people get judged by there grades.If schools got rid of grades how would collages know that there excepting someone who is smart and will try to learn?

In class we recently read an article about kids who will walk miles just to go to an airport were they can have light to study. Some students here in America don't do there school work even when they have light to see. Students don't realize how fortunate we are and I think that's why we cant take away grades.

This is important because sometimes I need to have that little push to do my homework, that might sound lame but I feel that without grades most students wouldn't be doing school work. I know I probably wouldn't. grades are what keep me going, grades are what give me incentive to learn would you be a good student if you didn't have grades?