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Growing up online

 Things That Did Not Surprise You:

1. People get messages regarding sexual things online. 
2. People block people that are creeps. 
3. There are pages online that teach people how to kill themselves.
4. There are people online that motivate others to kill themselves.
5. Kids not wanting to give their parents their passwords. 
6. Communities in which there are parents that are involved in their kids lives and have created a community that is safe for them .
7. Sexual predators online looking at pictures of kids. 
8. Parents do not know what their kids are up to.
9. Internet has promoted cheating.
10. Bullying is amplified by the internet. 
11. Bullying never ends if there is internet present at the home. 
12. It is easier to fight online.
13. You do not know who is looking at all of your things online. 
14. There is many of people that get anonymous messages. 
15. You can communicate with anybody you want and see, and you can leave them mean messages anonymously or by your own account.
16. Teens asking other teens for dirty pictures of themselves.

Things That Did Surprise Me:

1. The parent of the kid that instigated the death of the other was not concerned for the well being of the child. 
2. 1 in 7 kids get a sexual solicitation. 
3. Internet has created the biggest gap of ages since the age of Rock. 
4. Parents did not obligate their kids to give them the password.
5. Parents get mad at children by misinterpretations of many situations.
6. There are sites that get to know you just to tell you the best way to kill yourself that matches your personality. 
7. The analogy that sharing things on the internet is like letting people into your house. 
8. The new threat on the internet is not sexual predators but bullies and the sharing of unwanted photos. 
9. That kids know when to turn down a sexual predator, that they know what is best for them and know how to not get harmed. 
10. Why kids do not give their parents their passwords if it is for their own protection. 
11. That kids actually admitted to knowing the son that committed suicide when being asked by the father knowing that it was the father. 
12. That the father of the same kid did not look to blame anyone even when wanting to. 
13. The fact that children do lots of dangerous things online but do many more in real life. 
14. How little people knew back then about the internet situation. 
15. How much everything has changed since 2008. 
16. How much internet awareness campaigns exist in today's world. 

Things That Have Changed Since The Video Was Made

1. MySpace is not massively used, the emphasis has changed to Facebook. 
2. Parents are now more aware of the risks and implications of the internet. 
3. Parents now are more involved in the social lives of their children online. 
4. Parents know how to monitor their children's activity. 
5. Lots of social networks are aware of the ongoing problems and have made it easier for people to report and block people. 
6. People are more careful about what they share online. 
7. Now you can access the internet easily through the use of phones. 
8. There are many places in the modern world in which there is free Wi-Fi.
9. Schools take action in order to stop cyber bullying. 
10. The interests in the internet has changed so that it is not a great social network but towards movies and entertainment. 
11. There are many more sites now to know how to kill yourself but there are also many more forums and sites that offer help to people with these problems. 
12. Anything that you want to find in the world you can find on the internet, anybody with any interests can find things that they like and speak with people that have common interests. 
13. There are now many more pages that promote anonymous messaging now a days. 
14. There are many more resources for educative purposes online. 
15. Online there are many tools and applications that can help many problems and help schools be more interactive with technology. 
16.  Schools and parents are more involved in the technological world and know how to intervene in a child's life and know how to solve any problem that might present itself. 

Which topic in this video did you most strongly identify with and why?

Swiss school

Video #1 (these are links to the videos)
This video is mainly about what the school offers and showing its main building. The video also speaks great amounts about sustainability and how the future and innovative leaders need to integrate sustainability with business. It also speaks about its location, and all that the place it is located in has to offer.
Video #2
This video is about what is going to happen to the world if we do not put a stop to global warming and how there will be millions of people affected. Also this video states that we are the planets worst enemy and that we are the ones that are slowly destroying it.
Video #3
This video is about a plain that is solemnly powered by sunlight. It made a long flight across America in a day, it is not very fast but it is sustainable. The video is about the flight and the plain.
Video #4
This video is about the two pilots behind the solar powered plain giving a speech at a graduation ceremony. They are motivating the students to develop technologies that will help the planet and help all of us have a better future. They are also saying that the planet need pioneers and that they way that they are going to get these pioneers is by thinking outside the box.
Video #5
This video teaches us how we can help sustainability. This video speaks about how we can buy brands that are sustainable and help the planet. These brands that have special logos have earned these logos by special waste disposal and stuff.
Sustainability for Alpina
"Para Alpina, la sostenibilidad es un eje estratégico que materializa nuestro Propósito Superior de generar prosperidad colectiva, a través de nuestra operación, en el entorno. Sabemos que nuestro futuro depende de nuestra capacidad de generar y compartir cada vez más valor, en armonía con las comunidades que nos rodean y con los recursos naturales de los que dependemos.

En Alpina identificamos 11 grupos de interés, que se convierten en punto de referencia y en beneficiarios directos de nuestra gestión con la sostenibilidad. Por tal motivo desarrollamos una estrategia que se basa en el compromiso frente a 7 desafíos que hemos definido con el fin de asegurar nuestra sostenibilidad y generar valor compartido para nuestro entorno."  http://corporativo.alpina.com/contenido/sostenibilidad/introduccion-82

This basically says that Alpina focuses on sustainability because they know that our future depends on it. They also know that natural resources are what we depend on. They have also developed a plan of action that will help them surpass the problems that may be presented by sustainability. The next points are their objectives.
#1. Strengthen there relations with those of interest.
#2. Create profit for those that own Alpina and invest in it.
#3. Create a good place for Alpina employees to work.
#4. Efficient use of the materials since they are a crucial part of the world, and the waste of these would have #5. Promote healthy eating habits and have the best product available for their clients.
#6. Strengthen the sustainability of their projects.
#7. Create social valor in their spheres of influence.

GAFE

...what is the difference, how do you use each one, what are some things you could do with them in school and for school projects, make and example.

Google Earth and Google Maps

Google Earth is a great application that can be used for various different things. One of the things that you can do on Google Earth and one of my personal favorites is the flight simulator. The flight simulator can recreate any possible scene in the entire world, and you can fly in it. You can fly in Paris, London, virtually anywhere that you want.

The picture to the left is of a person that is in the flight simulator mode in Google Earth. Google Earth is a very accurate program, even inside the program it tells you where airports are, how fast you are going, your altitude and many other things. The flight simulator is a great way to explore new places, any place you want. All you have to do is search it, go to the tool bar that Google Earth offers, click on tools, and then click on enter flight simulator. If having any problems click on this link.


There are many other fun things that you can do on Google Earth. Like any other huge development Google Earth has its few funny flaws. Click wherever on this sentence to go to a funny video about funny things on Google Earth.


As I have said before there are many other fun things that you can do on Google Earth, you can even check out cool buildings, in 3D. You just have to click on the 3D option and you can check out the height of many cool buildings such as The Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa and many other tall buildings. Tall and not tall.

Above are some cool structures that you can check out on the 3D option in Google.

Another really cool thing that you can do on Google Earth is check out other planets! On Google Earth you can check out any planet you want. All of this at the touch of your fingertips.




Google Maps is also a very powerful app powered by Google. This is another app that will amaze you with what it can do.
This is a instructional video on how to use Google Maps.

Google Maps is kind of like Google Earth just that it is just way more accurate. On Google Maps you can almost go anywhere in the US and check out the whole place for yourself. This application is a interactional application in which you can explore the whole US with no problem. For example when I was exploring Google Maps I went to the Empire State Building and all I had to to was point and click, I also navigated the streets of New York. All you have to do if you want to move forward is point and click. It is amazing.

Google Day #3

Goals for the Day :
1. Look up the scores and grades needed to get into Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and Babson.
2. Look at things that would help get you into a good university.
3. Look at school campuses and living halls, find out what the average dorm room looks like.

Harvard:

How You Compare	GPA	PSAT to SAT 1600	PSAT to SAT 2400	Single SAT 1600	Combined SAT 1600	Single SAT 2400	Combined SAT 2400	PLAN to ACT	ACT	IB	Accept
Mathias Kling Cowen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Harvard College*	3.65	-	2110	-	1420	2110	2120	-	-	-	1/28

Stanford: 

How You Compare	GPA	PSAT to SAT 1600	PSAT to SAT 2400	Single SAT 1600	Combined SAT 1600	Single SAT 2400	Combined SAT 2400	PLAN to ACT	ACT	IB	Accept
Mathias Kling Cowen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Stanford University*	3.72	-	2130	-	1430	2130	2135	-	-	-	2/35

Columbia: 

How You Compare	GPA	PSAT to SAT 1600	PSAT to SAT 2400	Single SAT 1600	Combined SAT 1600	Single SAT 2400	Combined SAT 2400	PLAN to ACT	ACT	IB	Accept
Mathias Kling Cowen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Columbia University *	3.59	-	2105	-	1385	2105	2125	-	-	-	2/38

Babson: 

How You Compare	GPA	PSAT to SAT 1600	PSAT to SAT 2400	Single SAT 1600	Combined SAT 1600	Single SAT 2400	Combined SAT 2400	PLAN to ACT	ACT	IB	Accept
Mathias Kling Cowen	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Babson College*	3.32	-	1707	-	1156	1707	1721	22	22	-	12/35

Things that help to get in to a good university.

One of the most important things out of everything I read was writing a good essay. Writing a good essay is one of the things that determine if you get into college or not. Colleges can tell loads by the essay and it is one of the determining factors of admission. A good essay can help you get separated from the group, basically what this means is that a good essay can get you some sort of special recognition out of everybody that applied. 

Though most of the sites that I visited used sarcasm saying not to bother that you would never get into ivy league schools or any good schools for that matter, the points of view from those at ivy league schools is different. They say that the biggest mistake you can make is not to apply. 

How campuses are like: 

Link to video about Harvard's Campus

Link to video about Stanford's Campus

Life in Babson