Cell Phones Blog #1

     One technology that has changed the world is cellular phones, cell phones are a necessity in my life.  It helps to keep my family close together, even though we are hundreds of miles apart.  It allows us to communicate with one another, at any time and any place.  My parents live in a small remote community on the Navajo reservation, the nearest land line telephone is 30 miles away.  It use to  be a chore just to make a simple phone call, an hour round trip, $20.00 in gas and most of important of all TIME.  Now with this new technology, they are able to make phone calls from their house. 
     Cell phones in the 1990's were huge, it was like carrying a suitcase, large cell phone  Today, we have phones that are so much smaller and a whole lot lighter than what people use to have.  Cell phones changed the world, so many people, like 6.8 billion people in the world have a cell phone.  Who would have thought this big phone would eventually change the world for the better.  Cell phones allow us to keep track of our kids, business clients, family, friends, and most of all it gives us a sense of security.  When we travel we know we can call road side assistant if we have mechanically problems, we are able to call emergency personnel if there is an accident.  Cell phones make our lives so much easier. 
     I love looking at old cell phone commericals, it just goes to show us how much time has changed. Cell phones is a technology that has changed the way we communicate with other people.  It makes it more accessible and most of all convenient.

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Retro Commercial - Radio Shack Cell Phones - 1990

WWII Navajo Code Talkers

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   Navajo Code Talkers

    If I were to be a living book, the only one in existence, I would chose to be a Navajo Code Talker book.  I am proud of my culture, language, hertiage and this beautiful free country that I live in.   It brings me great pleasure to know that my grandfathers were a part of a secret operation to help in World War II.  I would want to be a Navajo Code Talker book to tell people of my grandfathers journey before, during and after the war. 

    I would want to be a Navajo Code Talker book to tell people about World War II, and how the Navajo Code Talkers helped to win the war, to this day there are still alot of people who do not know about the Code Talkers. www.navajocodetalkers.org/ If I were to be a living book I would want to tell people of the Navajo language, the sounds and meanings of our often confusing language, which stumped the Japanese.   It was an unbreakable code, it was also a secret, after many years of being a secret I think people should know how the Navajo Code Talkers contributed during the war.  bingaman.senate 

     History is an important part of our great nation, as a book, I would want people to know that my people helped in a war for our country.   I want people to know and hear our language, a language that could not be broken during the war.  As a book, I would tell people of our Navajo culture and how it ties into protecting and fighting for something that we believe in. 

     If I were a living book, I'd be a Navajo Code Talker book.  I would want people to hear about my language, the courage of my brave grandfathers who went into a war with a secret code, a code that was never broken.  I would want people to hear how the Code Talkers had to leave the country and go to a foreign country, most of these men had never left the reservation.  I would want people to know the courage and bravery of these young men.  For so long they were kept a secret, and if it were up to me, never again will they be a secret.

     pictures of Navajo Code Talkers

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     "Those who know how, work for those who know why" is a very interesting quote, it can be interpreted many different way and there is no one answer.  But  I am at a point in life where education is very important. and this quote reminds me of a teacher and student relationship.  Teachers know how to teach, and the student knows why the teacher is teaching them. 
     Teachers obtain the knowledge of how to teach students to maximize their learning potential.  A teacher also knows how to make learning fun and at the same time stimulates the brain to a higher learning level.  According to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards there are 5 things a teacher should know and be able to do.

1. Teachers are committed to students and their learning 
2. Teachers know the subject they teach and how to teach those subjects to students.
3. Teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning.
4. Teachers think systematically about their practice and learn from experiences. 
5. Teacher are members of the learning communities. link one

     Students know why the teachers are working, they are working to teach them.  Teachers are working to help the students to accomplish a goal the student has set for themselves.  Students know the reason why teachers are teaching them everyday, teaching them about academics, study habits, being productive, work to set goals and accomplish those goals.  A part of why teachers are teaching us also comes from us having to pay for our school, so we expect to teachers to teach us.  Tuition is a part of education, we pay for what we want and tuition is a big part the puzzle. 
     Considering the opposite direction, like I stated before this quote is interesting especially the second part of the quote, "work for those who know why".  Growing up we did not know how to work but we worked for those who did know why.  We worked for those who knew why we needed to develope good work ethics, and why we needed to finish what we started.  Because we worked for those who  knew why, it caused us to develope into "those who know how".  Now we know how to finish what we start and we make this quote true, "Those who know how, work for those who know why".
     In conclusion, there are many different ways to interpret this quote "those who know how, work for those who know why", but for me I feel that teachers go to school to learn to teach us as students and we know why they are teaching us. 

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I think I am going crazy.  I'm still trying to figure this whole blogger thing.  Last night I could not get this thing to work and now it might be working.  For 3 hours last night I could not log in.  I went to bed with a headache.