The convenience of technology has affected American’s education system negatively because there are too many choices for learning yet too little reinforcement on validating what our students learn. Moreover, the distraction to this generation caused by mishandling the technologies and electronics has become a valid concern. With over dependency on the technologies, students develop alarming habits such as laziness and impatience.
As most of the schools in America moving forward to utilizing internet technologies or electronic devices to help teachers to teach and student to learn, ideally, everyone should be able to effectively do the researches or accessing knowledge freely. In his article” What Would Socrates Say?” Peter W. Cookson Jr. urges us to “overhaul and redesign the current school system.” Cookson has his point that in a perfect world as he is hoping for, learning, discussing and sharing knowledge without boundary is definitely possible. However, Cookson’s assertion that learning together peacefully global-wide does not fit the reality for now. There are so many tribulations to work though before we can realistically get even close to there; such as poverty, war, or racialism. In my view, however, technologies definitely has improve our life style. It brought efficiency and convenience to human race like never before. The film “A Vision of Students Today” made by the Anthropology professor, Michael Wesch, and his students are silent as they express themselves with notes on the paper or on the laptop screens. Many of them admits their ignorance by acknowledging their increasingly usage of the internet technology even when they are in the class. I happen to sympathize with the silent students, though, perhaps because I think the body languages of these young generation implies the increasing frustrations. The students express their wonders and concerns about what they are learning is actually relevant to their life. I also sense the lack of energy, interaction, and enthusiasm among the students in the film.
Despondently, it seems like there are often dreadful consequences come with every superior invention.
Welcome to Our Blog Conversations Beyond the Classroom!
Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study? As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…). Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!
Monday, May 9, 2011
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