toy hack refection

I started out by just buying a Nerf gun from the store and I thought hey why not incorporate this into my toy hack. The original purpose for the gun was for Niners vs zombies. While in class I was able to talk with some other classmates and came to the conclusion of connecting toy guns to bad influences for kids.

I started this make by just simply doing a little research on toy guns and their connections to violence. I went to the library to find some peace and quiet, I usually go to the top floor because it has a really nice view from up there of the campus and also because there is normally not to many people up there. I have noticed when I am sitting alone in a quiet place I am able to focus much more than with a group. I remember it being a little cold up there, and almost awkwardly silent.

I made a rough draft of my make and headed back to my dorm where I took some pictures of my guns and added them to the make. However I thought I posted it, but instead I realized that I had not even saved it. Luckly I was able to rewrite it even if I turned it in a bit late.

This toy hack make actually made me look back at how I was raised and made me think of how I should raise a family. There is a lot of pressure on parents and a lot of power they have over their children. A parent has the potential to influence their child to be great or not. I remembered a youtube video documenting a father who lucky found out his son had an interest in chemistry (or something in science) at a very young age, maybe around 5th grade, instead of not doing much about it this father pushed his son to learn more and more. The video said that the boy was able to sit in a college class and knew what was doing on, and also to answer many of the questions that the teacher had asked. The father expressed the potential that his son has is limitless because he encouraging his son to learn more when he was young. This video shows how much a parent can affect a child, this video never mentioned the mother so if one parent has this much power, then think of how much power two parents have.

(not actual boy)

Toy Hack

Toy Hack

I am currently involved with the Niners vs Zombies, a game where students attack zombies with nerf guns and try not to get infected. This got me thinking, do toy guns possibly have a bad influence on kids?

            My childhood didn’t consist of a lot of shooting video games or even any toy guns. Since I was not introduced to it I didn’t know what I was missing out on until I went over to some friends’ houses that had these things. However I never got an xbox or any guns until I was much older (still don’t have an xbox). Even though I never had an xbox I always wanted to go to my friend’s house in order to play with his. I never wanted my friends to come over to my house only because I didn’t have an xbox. Around 16 I was introduced to paint ball, and I fell in love with it. I got my own paintball gun and equipment. Paintball gave me the impression I could shoot someone without consequences.

            When I was of age to shoot a gun I didn’t actually like it too much at first, mainly because of the recoil of the gun hurt my shoulder. I had this idea in the back of my head that shooting a gun wouldn’t be this bad mainly because of video games and paintball games.

            Toy guns give kids a since of invincibility and do not tell the dangers of real guns. There are countless stories of little kids finding a parents gun and accidently shooting themselves because they didn’t know the danger of this weapon. I know me and my neighbors liked to play a game called cowboys and Indians which is the same as cops and robbers. This game involves the cowboys and Indians constantly shoot at each other. If you really look at this game it has a very violent history.

            “Most kids play with guns as children and few grow up to use guns in an act of violence”. This quote assumes that each parent educates their children of the dangers of a real gun; however this is not the case in real life. There have been many bans on certain toy guns and there are many people who still think that toy guns in general are bad.

            I have come to the conclusion that the dangers of toy guns mainly come down to how the parents educate their kids of the dangers and that they understand the difference between a toy and the real deal.

Reflection work cycle 2

This is the first make that I actually enjoyed. I liked going out and getting lost it was like an adventure. This got me thinking... It seems to me that we make better quality papers/makes/projects when we enjoy what we are doing.

Here is an illustration of how having fun effects work.


                               FUN                                                                

• People who enjoy going into work everyday will not worry as much on wage
• I once meet a girl who liked to do HW. She loves to learn. Its not surprising that she did good in school
• We hear about music artists that sold everything and lived very unhealthy so that they could focus totally on their work

                             NOT SO FUN

• People who don't enjoy their work will complain and would not put as much effort into their work
• If you hate going to school then you would not learn. These people tend to have lower grades
• Someone who doesn't love what they do would never sell everything to focus on their work