About Me

1.       Where are you from?

       ~I am originally from Saint Louis, MO

2.       What is your experience with writing?

       ~I like to write poems and I also like to keep a journal of random thoughts.

3.       Identify what beliefs you have?

       ~I’m a Christian, believe in God

4.       What kind of folk culture?

       ~I like to listen to a lot of music mostly R&B

5.       Why are you in college?

        ~ I’m in college to earn my degree to be a pediatric nurse.

Comparison

            In class we watched a video, "Changing Education Paradigms" By Ken Robinson RSA Animate (2010. In the video Ken Robinson speaks at a fast past, it lasted 11 minutes and it was animated.  What I received from this video within that time span were the problems in the education such as conformity, classification, standardization, drugs (Ritalin), consumers and stratification of knowledge.

I can relate to this video because I’ve witnessed the behavior of the children once put o that medication. It causes the child to act as if he/she has no will power at all, they’re restless, and have a loss of appetite.  I personally am against the medication that these children are being put on because they are doing harm to the children’s’ body and its taking them away from their everyday freedom. If the child had patience and fewer distractions, I believe the child will be just fine.

 I can also relate to how Ken Robinson brought up the paradigm to how the school system works such as separating children into their age groups into sections and the classes into sections. In school I was just fine with being around students that were around my age because it gave the class and me a chance to learn all at once.

This video also explains the difference between aesthetic and anesthetic. The difference is that anesthetic shuts off your senses and deadens yourself to what’s happening, aesthetic keeps you aware of what’s going on around you, you’re senses aren’t shut off.

I read the article “Caring and Education”, by Nel Noddings. In this article he explains how the teachers’ feelings towards your schooling can make a difference. If you have teachers that really care about your education you’d be better off because they’d push you to get the knowledge you deserve. They also work with you until you understand the content and are capable to continue.  If a teacher is strict and tough towards the student they are going to attempt on their work but they will just work laboriously and escape whenever the opportunity comes.

“Caring teachers listen to John and Ann and help them acquire the knowledge and attitudes needed to achieve their goals”, Nel Noddings. I agree with the statement because not every student needs much knowledge beyond the basic. If the teacher gives off the attitude of not caring than most likely the student is going to respond to this situation in the same way, but by showing the student you care helps them realize that concentration and help from the teacher is the way to go. Caring for the student not only helps them learn but it also teaches them about caring themselves, it teaches them morals and confirming them in developing their best selves.

After watching the video again and going over the article they both talk about somewhat caring for the child’s need and just being patience will solve a lot of confrontations and problems.  

Hackers

While in the Introduction To Basic Computing course last semester, I learned that hackers come in different types and specialties. For example, there are white hat and black hat hackers who use programs such as Trojan horse malware, firewalls, and different means of technology and software to get things accomplished. When the question was posed to me during the class lecture, 'What comes to mind when you hear the word 'hacker?' I could not help but to rely on knowledge I have gained from CIT 105 lectures, as well as the generation I was born into, that is filled with people of the frontier of this technologically advanced world.

Just like super heroes, hackers can use their powers for good or evil. My definition of a hacker is an individual who has the capability of retrieving information from another’s desktop, accounts and much more depending on how talented the person is. The way I remember them, white hat hackers are 'the good guys' so to speak, as their main objective is to protect and teach companies how to program better security and be less vulnerable on the web. This type of hacker tests out the online defenses of a firewall and pretends to be the enemy to figure out and strengthen the people the hackers were hired by.

Also, another benefit of hackers is the confiscation of information that would otherwise come from an unwilling source. Child predators run rampant online and the more preventative measures our hackers on the frontlines can make, the safer our youth is and will stay. Though it is kept confidential, I can only imagine that hackers work in the Pentagon to access any online resources for terror/anti-government information.

Black hat hackers are more obviously the opposite of white hats. The first memory I have of hackers in general is the film Hackers (1995) staring Angelina Jolie. The plot was about a teenager who created and wrote his own virus, only to be caught and punished by the secret service. His hacking skills were so advanced that his punishment was banished from using any computer until he turned 18 and became an adult. These hackers have one motive to benefit themselves by taking advantage of less computer savvy internet patrons. They are con-artists who steal identities, social security numbers, credit card information and spam email addresses all by means of the World Wide Web.

Many people can be caught into the label as a harmful hacker, such as the teen boy from the Hackers film. Simply downloading an illegal movie online or songs without paying for them with software such as Limewire, Frostwire and Kazaa is considered illegal. Black hat hackers plant viruses into computers to get past firewalls, such as Trojan horse software, and are deviant Cowboys getting away quickly and leaving computers in ruins. Once a computer gets a virus, in some instances the hardware/motherboard is fried and useless afterwards.

Whether they are on our side or not, hackers are more prominent today than ever, as we utilize technology for almost every task imaginable. They are scary and illusive but can also be a big help to corporations and people starting small businesses with websites.