Writing Prompt

  I think we should have a piano class. Like the basics it should be able to be a four year course. Not like a complete professional class but a nice little class so kids who actually wanna learn to play and stuff they'd be able to. This class should meet not right after school i think around 4 - 4:30 ish. It should be a good 2 hours long. NOT A LOT OF WRITTEN PAPER WORK! A class where they really focus on the music because a lot now they wanna teach the history of this. In all Honestly no kid actually really cares about that they wanna play and enjoy the class and not regret joining it and are bored to death. I want pictures of the students all over the classroom. i want to see only smiling faces.

  All student should not bring in their own keyboards i believe this class should provide them for the class ones that everyone will use and we can have enough for anyone. Only serious students who actually wanna learn can join this class. Not a kid whos gonna fool around and break the keyboard. I want the kids to be happy. Want them to look forward to coming to this class they should be about 10 minutes early because when the class starts then it starts because we need all the time. Unless they actually tell me when they're going to be late then i wont care. I would always play soft music in the background people tend to learn better with background noise. At the end of each marking perido i would like them to choose a song they have fully learned and play it for me. And sing im not judging on singing im judging the performance.

Could the next moon mission involve a small step for an ape, but a giant leap for all robots?

With renewed interest in moon exploration -- in particular the remote possibility that deposits of helium-3, believed to be in greater concentration on the moon, could one day power nuclear fusion power plants on Earth -- robots might be the ideal solution, especially to keep the costs down.

And a design from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (also known as DFKI) in Bremen, Germany, has landed on the chimpanzee as its model for unmanned lunar missions.

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Wiki Dissection DQ

1. What is the purpose of this Wiki? To inform us about disruptive tech. in the classroom
2. When was the last post? Sunday April 6th
3. How was this Wiki created? with Wikispaces
4. What would you add to it? How these devices can effect you, also updates and more information about school rules
5. What did you learn from it? nothing really to not use your device in school
6. If you had to create a Wiki with a team, what would be the specific topic (s)? Mine would be about cats
7. How can Wikis be used in the classroom or in education? you could use it to help when you have questions but don't want to ask the teacher.

WIKI Opinion

  I believe that wiki is a great source to use. I just wouldn't completely trust everything i see on there. As for a research paper i wouldn't use wiki for that. Or if i did it would be very little because even though it's difficult to change its still possible and i wouldn't want to take that risk. Im now more informed about this information and i know when and  when not to use wiki. I found out it's not always wrong and that its one of the top results when you look up a subject.

Reflection

I agree with everything these people are saying. We must start to inform younger generations now and even the older one. Everyone basically lives off social media and half the the time they don't think before they do. If something bad was posted and people get in fights over it the other deletes it n just believes its fine but its not.  Jobs, colleges could all still access all these information. One mistake could ruin your future or even your life now. I think all schools shouldn't have like meetings about it, but they should have all students do a paper on this a two - three page paper. About why you should watch what you post and what the consequences will be. When they're fully educated about it then maybe these people will think twice about what they do then next time.

THE CYBER ANT

In a lab in Germany lives a strange breed of ant. These ants have ceramic limbs and 3D-printed bodies. They gain sustenance by charging their batteries through metal antennae against electric rails. Where eyes should be there are two parts of a stereo camera. Underneath each thorax sits an optical sensor pulled from a computer’s mouse. All along the body, like stripes from a biomechanical tiger, are circuits and electric conduits. These bionic ant mimics are the size of a human hand. There are at least a dozen of them, and they’relearning to work together.

Made by Festo, a German engineering firm, these ant bots move via piezoelectric materials, with tiny electric charges inching their legs along.

The ant bots use their cameras to navigate and wireless communication to stay in touch--just like millenials. In the future, they may find work on factories, perhaps clearing up scraps from work-room floors after hours. Watch the ants work together below:

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How a circular smartphone could help rework tech

Screens are rectangles. Even the 3-year-old playing with your iPad could tell you that. But what would the digital world look like through a different sort of frame? Say... a circular one?

Monohm, a startup based in Berkeley, California, was founded around this very idea. For the last year, the three-person team has been working a circular, palm-sized device dubbed Runcible.

They cheekily refer to it as the "anti-smartphone," a description that goes for both its form factor and its value system.

The round device is meant to be the antidote to our feed-obsessed, notification-saturated digital existence. It's a challenge to the rectangular status quo and everything it represents. That's a quixotic dream, but an interesting one.