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While perusing through many interesting posts, one caught my eye which was titled Why Wireless? posted by Karl Fisch that discusses why specifically at Arapahoe High School they are allowing students to bring personally owned devises that will be able to connect to the internet like a laptop. I believe that this is a good idea because technology is becoming a big part of most peoples life's and it is important that we know how to use it. The school can not afford laptops for everyone so you need to bring your personal one. There are many uses for having access to the internet for students. Personally, I'm a student at Arapahoe High School and I use the internet constantly. My teachers assign assignments that you need to access from their website and also our grades are online. People worry that this could be a big distraction for students, but this is prepairing us for the real world. There will be tons of distractions is the real world that no one will try to stop us from being distracted by them. The internet is used daily in most jobs and it is necessary that we learn how to use it and be able to work with it. So much can be accessed from the internet and so much information can be saved.

"Our students must know what to do when they don’t know what to do. They will
need to know how to learn how to learn."

The internet also allows us to communicate our thoughts and ideas with not only the students in the classroom, but from all around the world. We are one world and we have to break away from our isolation and share our ideas with the world not just our teachers and classmates. Also, we are able to see others views on matters, not just our classmates or our teachers because there are different sides to everything.

We are moving from:“do your own work” to “work with others”“just in case” to
“just in time” learning“hand it in” to “publish it.”- Will Richardson