No Red Pills, No Blue Pills Response

   The "No Red pills, no blue pills" article expressed how the author thought of success and change in "important courses" in University and Collage. She has realized that many of the students around the world today, start to use more and more technology as a learning tool. Since many young adolescents such as myself usually use technology as a social, and relaxing device, there are many doubts and worry for the teachers. Students may use the technology for a non-educational (lack of motivation) purpose and end up having to waste their time.

   Although there are cons to using technology as an education tool, there are the pros too. Technology has expanded the learning length of many students and even teachers. There are sites and apps such as Blogger, and Schology that are very helpful in learning. Due to the popularity of Facebook and how, many young adolescents use it as a social interaction device; Schology's layout is very similar to Facebook for those very purposes. Since many people use Facebook, Schology's layout has become easy and convenient for teachers to inform students of upcoming events. As for Blogger, as you can tell through its name, its purpose is to "blog". Nowadays more and more teachers create class blogs so other classes internationally can critique each other. For example our class have class blogs and Mr. D'Argent's class have them too, both classes are literally across the world from each other, but we can critique and give advice to their class as they do to us. 

  

    Ana Cristina Prata's, No red pills, no blue pills relate to more of our student lives than our course. She quoted "Drop-out rates in online education and incomplete or poorly achieved degrees", I believe that she thinks online education such as Surrey connect may lead to a students failure more than success. I choose this quote particularly because, since we are in grade.10 many of us should be considering of what are future plans should be. As a student we should start to consider what we should be taking in the next two years of high school and think about more of our success rate in a course. This also does apply to our English 10 class because, English 10 is an important course for a student to achieve. Due to the fact that we are in North America and the rest of world mainly uses English as a second language if not a English speaking country, every English course is important. Although it may be tough judging a person's ability in English through a course, it applies to every other course; how well you do in a course can alter where you get in the future. 

     Lastly, I believe Ana Cristina Prata's audience was aimed to both teachers and students because if a teacher takes recognition it is more likely they would think about the way they're teaching, which leads to affecting a student. If a student were to take consideration of "no red pills, no blue pills"  its more likely they would think about their future success, which affects the teachers because a student would "judge" a teacher more often. Ana Cristina Prata has certainly brought the "idea" of technology being a educational tool as both con and pro.