My assigned portion of he essay "What Would Socrates Say?" was the 'Future Is Here-Almost' and 'What Would Socrates Do?'. The author of this essay, Peter W. Cookson wrote about how technology is used and how it affects people here and now inthe 21st century. He also talked about how the philosopher Socrates would feel about the way we are learning. In 'The Future Is Here-Almost' Cookson focuses on teachers, school, students, and the curriculum. He believes that a new curriculum called the LearningSphere should be used. The LearningSphere is a program that makes it so learning takes place in and out of the classroom. Cookson expresses how important he feels this currriculum is when he said, "There has never been a time in human history when the oppurtunity to create universally accepted knowledge has been more of a reality. And there has never been a time when education has meant more in terms of human survivaland happiness". He knows that technology is an important part of this century and instead of hating on it, he tries to find a way to embrace it and have it help people and society. He feels that Socrateswould fully approve of this curriculum and the use of technologyl. Cookson then goes on to talk about what Socrates would do. "I think Socrates would embrace the new learning area with all the energy he had". Cookson uses his thought that Socrateswould approve of the curriculum to catch people's attention and say what he thinks needs to be done. In his opinion, we need to "stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occuring in many different places, we need to free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking". Overall, he is saying that we need to keep up with the times. The big deal of the 21st century is technology. We need to embrace technology and work it into every aspect of our lives. If we work it into the school curriculum, he feels that we will greatly benefit and that the future will be better and more promising. I am inclined to agree with Cookson on this. If we embrace technology instead of fighting it, good things are bound to happen.
-Heather Williamson
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!
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