Google Alerts

Google Alerts has helped me a lot on ideas for new posts & even ideas for school projects! It's so simple & easy to use. All you do is set the subject you want researched & set a time you want to get the info & Google will just send you a email. Pretty easy! (:

Music Training May Delay Hearing & Memory Loss

Many studies at Northwestern University have shown that music may slow the aging process of hearing & memory. The older musicians not only outperformed their older non-musician, they also encoded the sound stimuli as quickly & accurately as the younger non-musicians. How awesome is it that you can improve your hearing & your memory by just being involved in music?! I believe that music is a very important part of everyone's life, it also may help your health. Listen, Love, Perform. Music! (:

Today in class...

We watched a video on the growing rates of the internet that we use. The way that they approached the subject kind of made it scarey, kind of referring to we would have a rough time living without the internet. I think humans would be just fine without the internet. We survived thousands & thousands of years without it. Sure, internet is very helpful & a good source of entertainment for games & such but, we do not need it. Sometimes I'm thankful we have it though. (:

About 21st Century Skills Class

I feel like this class is going to very helpful to me in the near future. Computers are practically what we thrive on, (even though I don't completely agree), & we have to know how to use them to advance in the technology world. This class is teaching me a lot of things that are pretty interesting but, I do get confused a lot. Either way, I'm looking forward to it.

Reaction to Digital Nation Video

I do agree that technology is addicting to some people but, it is not a medical issue like they were saying on the video. That is something you cannot fix with medication. I also believe that we do need to continue advancing with technology. I'm not sure if we should start teaching our youth to use computers until they are at least old enough to realize that it could cause health problems, although computers & technology is a very important part of our growing knowledge.