PLN #3*

The post "A Ramble about Getting Reminded..." by David Warlock on 2cents Worth, is about how generations are different. The main focus on this difference, from this article, was games. Most kids will buy a video game and just start playing it without reading the instruction booklet, that is given with the game; they find fun in figure it out by themselves. The best corollary from Warlock's generations, that he can think of, are board games. Instructions have to be read to play a board game, so how is it different with video games? Most RPGs (role-playing games), along with some other genres of games, have instructions during the game play. The game will show the player the controls to use in order to complete task they have to complete later on.

For example, in the video game "Kingdom Hearts," a SQUARE ENIX game, the main character, Sora, is played by the gamer. The gamer is given instructions on how to jump and fight the heartless, Sora's enemies. These instructions are given during game play, and also found in the instruction booklets, so the game player is given instructions either way.

In other cases, like being in a class, directions need to be given out for someone to figure out what to do. Because on a test or quiz if there are no instructions a person doesn't know what to do, unless it is obvious.

This post is important to the world around us because it shows that everyone learns differently. It shows this because some people read the directions that come with a game, while others try to figure it out by themselves, showing that one person may be a visual learner, an auditory learner or a kinesthetic learner. Some people can figure it out by themselves, but others can't; which doesn't give out the fact that the ones who read the directions are any less intelligent than the ones who don't.

PLN #2

A small homemade bomb went off on Sunday in Firestone, Colorado a few weeks ago. The report "Police Suspect Children Behind Homemade Explosives," tells the summary of the bombs' blew up. The bombs were made with common bathroom and kitchen chemicals, which shows that even a child can make a bomb using chemicals that are found in almost all houses. Also, this report should make people more conscious about what can be accessed by a child, in their house, so events like this don't happen.

In the short story "The Lady or the Tiger," by Frank R. Stockton, the princess has to make a choice. This chose is similar, in ways, to the choice the people who set off the homemade bombs. The princess has to chose whether or not to let her lover die or live, and the supposed children had the choice of whether or not to set off the bomb. In both situations someone either gets hurt or not.
In the world around us things like this can happen everyday and it can only be prevented if people want it to.

PLN #1

The article "2 Held in Smash-and-Grab Burglaries" by the Denver Post, matters because the crime committed affect the salons that were stolen from, and the people who work at those salons. The salons lost the profits stolen and the workers usually have to pay the price in order to keep their jobs.

The burglaries were committed by a young couple, Michael Lowry and Lauren Polzine. They took act in these crimes on account of Polzine needing the money because of Lowry facing jail time in another case. It's quite ironic that Polzine and Lowry decided to gain the money by committing a crime because of a crime that was committed earlier by Lowry. Who would risk the chance of going to jail even longer than they really have to, just to get money, even if it's for a loved one? It just doesn't make sense.

This article can open the eyes to anyone in the world who reads it because the report shows that crimes can happen anywhere and it can be either thousand of miles away from where someone lives to only a few blocks away. It's a scary thought and most people don't pay attention to the risk of a burglary happening around them because it usually happens far far away.