10 Postives, No Negatives. Why Not?

            In the article “10+ Ways to Promote a Learning Culture in your School (revisited)” by Karl Fisch it goes in to detail about the purpose behind students writing PLN’s and what a PLN really is in 10 reasons. As we have learned in class a PLN is a ‘Personal Learning Network.’ This is basically a way to respond, comprehend and think on a different and higher level about the things you are reading. You do this by making connections, expressing your opinion on the topic and much more to expand your thinking and understanding. I really connected to this article because PLN’s are something as an English class we do on a regular basis and I personally think they are great ways to improve on our writing styles, making connections and much more. Mr. Fisch really explains this and how students and teachers that aren’t using these at their school can bring them into the classrooms and how they can do it.

            I hope that a lots of students and teachers are able to find access to this blog because I really think if it was applied in more classrooms across the state, even across the country it would help expand countless students abilities to understand what they are reading and make text to text, text to self and text to world connections that really challenge their learning. At the same time they’d be practicing their writing and just improving themselves even more. I really don’t see any negative results from bringing PLN’s into the classroom. They are a terrific strategy and I believe that they really to challenge and extend your reading, writing and mostly your learning.

“Parents unhappy with Cherry Creek's handling of playground incident”

            In the article “Parents unhappy with Cherry Creek's handling of playground incident” by Daniel Smith it tells the recent story about a mother whose son had broken his leg at school after standing up for a fellow student being bullied and how the school district is dening that story all together. In this situation I am definitely on the mother’s side because she would have no reason to make up like a story like this, while on the other hand the Cherry Creek school district has a reputation to keep and protect.

After reading this article I really began to think about how liability is so important during and even after the school day. I thought about the other day when the fire alarm went off after school and there was no coach with the volleyball players in the auxiliary gym because both coaches were helping other students in the math department. When Mr. Booth saw this he was very concerned because of the huge liability there was. We as volleyball players didn’t think much of it because we were usually there before our coaches and no one has ever gotten injured before. Then when hearing Mr. Booth’s concern I thought about how if someone was to get injured we would have to run to get any sort of help instead of having a coach there right away. This article really made me rethink about dangerous the things we do at school can be and why we really do fill out all those forms and releases for everything that goes on. It really is for the safety of the students at Arapahoe High School.