Excitment App

I picked the ad called “PowerPoint: Killer App?” for my text response this week. I thought overall this was a pretty interesting article. It makes some good points about Microsoft PowerPoint. I like how some articles or even other forms of media will grab your attention by starting out with some wild crazy story about how to completely different things are connected. Such as in this article it says one of the reasons that NASA did not see the safety defects in the space shuttle the Colombia was because there were too many PowerPoint presentations.

 Which I could understand if people are not fully focused on seeing the same style of presentations all day it could make anyone brain dead.  Although I do not agree the reason they missed the safety defects on the space shuttle Colombia because of PowerPoint seems a little rash. We had plenty of mishaps when it came the space ships long before PowerPoint was even thought of.

Though I love the style of this argument the way the article gets a persons attention by something that sound as I said so rash. It is something you cannot say is not true but it just sounds so unreal. I find it very interesting they way it says that the same presentations over and over again will make a person brain dead which I completely agree with. How can you pay attention to the same thing being told to you so many times.

The Testie Syndrome

I found a really awesome cartoon to do this blog on. Though my last blog and this blog are talking about school I do not plan to do all of my blogs on the wonderful topic of school budgets. I am an addict to cartoons. I read them all the time. They leave such an impact on me because to show one’s idea in just a few panels is beautiful.

               The cartoon is about a job interview with a high school. The boss asks “How has high school prepared you for this job?” the high school student thought of an SAT test. This argues the point of the No Child Left Behind program. It shows that the No Child Left Behind program forced schools to focus on test rather than an education.

               I completely agreed with this cartoon and I thought it left a valid point. I mean honestly anyone can fill in a dot. (Well most people) I also believe that not all of the education is schools responsibility. If a kid want to learn they will if not they won’t. Also why make everyone suffer if not everyone is great at taking test, not that bad test takers are wrong. Shouldn’t grades be enough?

               I did a blog on this because there are so many different learning styles you cannot narrow it down to just one test. With the many strong feelings I have about the school systems I can’t sum them up in one blog. The nice thing about this is that just last week they got rid of No Child Left Behind.

Art Budget

With the many things to argue about it is hard to choose one thing to talk about. I have decided to talk about schooling. As if you do not hear enough about school. I feel very strongly about this. Should the fine arts programs be cut so drastically compared to all of the other subjects? I would say no there are so many benefits to fine arts.

        For starters it is one of the best ways for talented and regular people to express their brilliant ideas and feelings through more ways than just writing. It also helps troubled people find an outlet or different way to release their trouble no matter what it is. The fine arts can also show people different culture and history from all around the world that may not be focused as much in other classes.

        All over the news and many online websites it states that school who lose the most in these budget cuts are school that do poorly. I find this wrong it shows that a well-funded school would have a better chance at funding. So if they get it were does that leave the poor and low income schools, in the dust. This prevents so many children and people from being able to experience such and education through music, arts, and styling.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

 James Baldwin