Should We Really Be in School?
”Why Should Student Come to Class…”
Im still debating on this blog post on his blog. It is a great idea, but you just cant make some connections. There would be no student/teacher connections…and there wont be any student/student connections. Sure, they’ll make ‘friends’ but are they really? What if the student has a question? They will ‘email’ the teacher, then wait a long time for a response, then what if they are still confused? They would have to do the whoooole thing over again…making them get farther behind all because of a question…
But, it is a great idea. Someday we actually might have online schools…we already spend most of our teenage years on the computer…so why not put a little education into it? Heres the comment I left on his blog…
“First off, excellent blog post. You have some very strong ideas and points and you might actually have something to work off of. I kinda agree and disagree with you. Most of a teenagers life is spent on a computer, by IMing friends, research, playing games, going online…There are endless possibliities you can you on the computer. SO, if we already spend a lot of time, why not do something educational with it? But, there are things you cannot get when you are using only the computer/internet to teach.
You really cant make that teacher/student connection. By just putting up assingment each day and looking at what the student did, you can’t really talk and get to know them or understand them well. Plus, if they have a question, sure they can ‘email’ you or whatever, but you might not get that email untill later on in the day. Then when you respond and the child still doesn’t understand, you have to go through that whole process again, having the child be a day behind everyone else because they had a question. I mean sure, every kid would want to do this, thinking ‘Yay! we dont have to go to school!’ but really, it might just be more confusing on the kid. Im still nto sure whether I agree or disagree wiht you just yet…but you might be going somewhere with this… “
What do you think? Should we have technology classes…no more school…but think about it…if technology is the future, and we are the future…would this help us? Or would it just be a whole mess…..?
Well, here’s something you don’t hear everyday…
Ok…so as usually, I was on this website I go to like…..EVERY day to check up on all things Harry Potter. Whether it be news on filming/cast for HBP (Half-Blood Prince) anything! ANYWAYS…I saw this as one of their articles and thought it was…well… very interesting…not something you would think of doing…usually. BUT!!! There is a very weird part about it. Before mi hermana went off to college *tear* we went to the Midnight release of Deathly Hallows with a bunch of her friends, and we were talking about Harry Potter in school. Like about all the things we would do and what not…then reading this…ahha! Those dang Nargles must have overheard us told some school in the UK about it and decided to do it!
Seriously…check this out! Clickyclickycliky!!
Singer,Songwriter,Pianist…What More??
Sippie Wallace. A wonderful person. Born in Texas in 1898, one of 13 children. Her first name was Beulah Thomass. She married Matt Wallace in 1917, and changed her name. Sang even when she was a child. In her midteens, she was even singing in various popular Texas Shows, and grew up to become a talented and spirited Blues Singer. She even made some recordings with Louis Armstrong, Roosevelt Sykes and Little Brother Montgomery. She played at some very famous shows and started to become famous herself. She made some very good blues songs that people still listen to today.
She was even nominated for a Grammy Award, and inducted into the Michigans Womens Hall of Fame in 1993.
I picked this person because I already knew a few things about her, and heard some of her songs(Which were verrry old). In elementry school in music class we had to pick a famous songwriter and write about them. Our teacher put up some names, and I happened to choose Wallace. Who knew that I would be doing a blog post about her a few years later, on the day of her death?!
Speaking of death, in March of 1986 after a cancert in Germany, she suffered a suvere stroke. Hospitalized, returned to the US, and died on her 88th birthday in Michigan.
Pretty weird, huh? Having your birthday and deathday all on t he same day! Well, Happy Birthday and Deathday to you, Sippie Wallace! 
