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media type="custom" key="4378925" Reflecting back on grammar school, K-12, Bloom's Taxonomy applies little. I went to a Catholic school, where we were never taught to analyze things or apply. Evaluation played a small role in things like book reports, and we were told that art was evil, so we never created many things. We spent most of our time just remembering things.
 * Bloom's Taxonomy, analyzed within my K-12 experience**

media type="custom" key="4379245" Borat was very excited about using a computer

media type="custom" key="4407551" John Dewey, in Democracy and Education discusses a difference with the older generation to the younger. This comic takes the need for the older generation to teach, especially as society grows more complex. It then takes the idea that the younger generations have a much higher capacity for things than the older generations and mixes the two. In this case, the student knows to use Google.com to get around what an ignorant teacher is presenting as "future-material". The intent is good, but the execution is terrible. The younger generation knows a way to get around it, but the teacher doesn't see that the student is capable of doing this.



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When thinking about what Web 2.0 has been doing, it’s possible to make a connection of the internet with global collaboration. Web 2.0 is a redesign of the internet, once built by designers at the benefits of major corporations, now reconstructed by users. People can collaborate with people around the world and develop insights on what the world actually needs. “More people can say more things to more people than ever in history” (Clay Shirky, NYU). A profound statement, and to give one a scope of something, according to ([]), the quantity of internet users in December 2000 was around 360 million users. These 360 million were using old-fashioned internet, Web 1.0 if you will, working with only what they’re given by the designers and companies. Absolutely no leeway was given, except with a few web-forums and the early stages of blogging (like LiveJournal). Chat rooms were popular just before that.======

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Today, it’s an estimate of 1.7 billion (rounded up) of 7 billion people in the world. To have the potential of working on a project with 1.7 billion people versus the 50 in your field of study at your school or workplace is astounding. The idea that all of the like-minded people around the world can work together to produce something together was a dream less than a decade ago. Now, 5 times as many people have an internet that can be manipulated and evolved to the users’ wants and needs. This is a fantastic tool for developing ideas.======

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Another idea that was addressed in the video was the idea of business. Corporations that have been around for a while are probably afraid of the internet and its possibilities because their product may no longer be needed. Seriously, who needs Office or Windows when there’s Open Office and Linux? What about buying CDs and large hard drives when there’s Pandora or Last.FM? It’s completely unnecessary to partake in expensive luxuries when there are free alternatives that are just as good. The video said those open-minded people are the ones that will be successful in the future, and that can be attributed to this. They toss around the idea of what a large company actually is. Is it large because of the quantity of employees or the vast number of people that use their product? With things like this happening, the only people that are going to survive in the next wave of the future are those with original ideas. Those without original ideas are going to find it hard to find a job, as we may be living in the first stage of a new way of living, where we no longer work for anybody. We may very well be evolving passed monetary value and cherish more the value of living and experience. If this is the case, I wish I could live to see it.======

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The video also mentions reputational capital. This is the idea that I just mentioned. People seem to want to live and experience. I feel we are evolving beyond the confines of what the Western world had given to us and trapped us in over the last two and half centuries. Learning in today’s world is more important than anything else, and as I’ve mentioned, why pay for something when something out there is free. The video mentioned that the cost of one person to give a small piece of information is well under the value that the beneficiary receives from the gained knowledge. We don’t need to give our 79 cents for a phone call when there’s 1800-GOOG-411, or even buy a GPS when there’s the upcoming project of directionless.info. With a cell-phone that can connect to the internet, a person who is involved with these technological wonders of today should never be lost or without a roof over their head.======