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In Johnathan Rosenberg's Our Googley advice to students:  Major in learning, he is saying you need to take your education seriously and think in creative ways.  This matters to me because I am a creative thinker and I sometimes keeping my interest in my school work.  This matters to education because they are trying to teach students to be interested in their education and in their lives and to benefit business all around the world.  That matters to the world because businesses thrive with creativity and creative thinkers. 

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In Karl Fisch's It Gets Better he says that Bullying and hating is not okay because even if you don't like someone, it doesn't mean you have the right to hurt them.  He also says standing by and doing nothing is also part of the problem because it's not the solution.  This matters to me because I can't just stand by and let stuff like this happen, I should help.  This matters to education because bullying happens at school.  It probably scares the victim to be bullied and they are probably distracted and can't think about their school work.  This matters to the world because if hate is still going around then it could get worse and there can never be peace in the world.  That is why this article is important.

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In 2020 vision, it was conjecture about the future.  Karl Fisch was thinking about what it would be like in 2020, so instead of thinking ahead, he pretended to be at that point in time, looking back.  I can't see how this can matter to me, education, or the world.  As interesting as it was I don't see how it can matter to anyone if it was all fiction and just a guess of what could happen, and most of the time he was talking about has already passed and none of the things he thought would happen ever actually happened, so I believe this is the wrong way to approach thinking about 2020, or the future. It is easy to think and hope for what could happen, but having these inventions takes time and effort to actually take place and to actually happen. That is what I think of the 2020 vision.

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I read, and watched, Creativity in Education: There is Room for it by Joel Arquillos and it was about a "Young Authors" Club. How they each year chose a school to work with for three months and have an after-school program where they work with kids to become published authors. This matters to me not because I write, because I am not a writer, but because if my education had creativity in it then I might show more interest for what I am doing. This matters to education because education would change if it had so much more creativity in it then the success rate would go up. It would go up because more people would be interested and want to succeed. This matters to the world because if we bring creativity to people that are just learning then we would have a creative globe and everyone would think outside the box and we would develop more quickly. There is room for creativity in education, we've just got to allow for it.

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In Rigor Redefined by Tony Wagner he talks about how he wonders if the education system is keeping up to date with all the businesses standards. He asks if schools get students prepared for successful careers. This matters to me because if the education system doesn't get me prepared for a successful career than how will I make money, and how can I be happy? If I can't be prepared for my life I couldn't live my life happily. This matters to education because if education can't keep up with teaching to what employers are looking for, than our standards of living will go down. If education can't keep up than the whole American system could fall apart. This matters to the world because if the American system falls apart than the world's economy will suffer because our system will be under-educated. If no one is prepared for their jobs, than we won't be able to compete. So, as Tony asks, is our education system preparing us for successful careers, and to be good citizens, or is failing us?

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I read The End of Books? (For Me, At Least?) by Will Richardson, and it was about e-readers. He had the Kindle app on his iPhone and he said it wasn't that bad, and that he liked how he could take notes in a different way. This matters to me because if I could just have the novels I read in my classes on my phone, it would be easier. Not only would it be more organized and I could just get out my phone and then read, but it also saves backpack space. This matters to education for basically the same reason. If students just used there phones or e-readers for reading, then they could save backpack space and paper. This matters to the world because if these did almost replace books then a lot of paper would be saved and not wasted. I don't think it is necessarily the end of books, but it can replace a whole lot of them.