Lecture/Chalk & Wire

I thought the lecture was very informative. There were I lot of things I never knew I needed to know, and without this lecture I would have fallen beyond. Now I feel I somewhat have an idea of what is going on.

I have mixed feelings about the chalk and wire thing. I already feel poor after I just signed up for our PPST test, and now thinking about all the other expenses I'm going to have before I start making the big bucks as a teacher...I'd almost rather make one by hand as a hard copy and have it right in front of me. I like the organization of the online one, but sometimes those can be confusing as well.

Paideia Lecture: Go Green

Just when it was starting to soak in that Paideia was over for me and I'd never have to have anything to do with it again (well until my Junior year), I attended the 'Going Green' lecture. Profesor Claude Mertzenich gave an interesting lecutre about replacing processes that have negative impacts on the envionments with clean and economically competitive chemical reaction and analysis methodoloten. Although I don't understand all those big words and pretty much just copied that sentence from my notes, what I did take from this lecture were ways to conserve the envionment. I think people sometimes dont grasp how important it is for us to keep our earth clean. We only think about the here and now and not what polluting may mean for not only us, but our children as well.
I think it is important for us to teach our future students to help keep our earth 'green.' From the start of their schooling we should enforce not littering, not keeping our water running while were brushing our teeth, and other things like these. As teachers we should model for our students ways to keep the earth healthy.

Lions for Lambs

I really enjoyed watching Lions for Lambs. At first I was confused with all the different plots going on, but then I realized they all tied together. My favorite was the professor who was trying to get his apathetic student to start trying again. I think it's very important to have an open relationship with your students so you feel comfortable talking with them, and they feel comfortable talking to you. If the student would have communicated his feelings earlier to his teacher, he may not have stopped going to classes.
I was really sad that the two military men had to die at the end. I wanted them to somehow pull through so they were able to tell their story to others. I'm confused at what it was trying to teach us. Those two guys were so passionate about what they believed and then joining the army, I wanted them to succeed.

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