Week Eight: What If You Had A Vision

In Karl Fisch's November Blog he discusses a "What If" factor. He wanted to send a message to young people across the world. He discusses a 20/20 vision. He talks about how many students depend on so many other tools to help them accomplish their goals. Karl fisch wanted to try to help students envision what life would be like if they no longer had these particular things to depend on. After reading Fisch's blog, I realize that he wanted to influence young people to have faith in themselves to accomplish whatever it is they needed to get done. He wanted them to have a vision of what it would be like to learn things on their own instead of depending on other tools to teach them. For example, Fisch used a scenario of students using calculators on tests. he clearly stated that "If students were allowed to use calculators on tests, then how would they learn to solve mathematical problems to find the answer."

He also talked about what students would do if they didn't have pen or paper. I believe that he was trying to send the message that students should have their own thoughts and be able to put them into their own words. He was trying to convince them to take their focus off of what is written on the paper and aim at accomplishing the goals that they have set for themselves. I thought that his presentations were very well put together and that it does put viewers into a frame of personal thought. If we spent our entire lives depending on others to do things for us, then we would not even know what it feels like to do things on our own.

After viewing Karl fisch's entire blog, the word responsibility came to mind. I believe his purpose was to try to influence students to become responsible for their own goals and their own lives. Responsiblity is what makes us independent responsibility. Without struggling to make things happen for yourself, or without accomplishing a goal on your own, how would you ever know what it is to be grateful? Many students depend on tools, software, paper, and other things to help them solve problems, learn, or establish new information. What Karl fisch wanted students to do is to become responsible for themselves and learn to do things on their own. He wanted students like myself to think about how I could do something if my source was no longer available. How would I maintain myself then?