Cynthia Selfe's essay "Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution" is about the change technology has on the world. These days all that goes on in an English classroom is Teachers talking to us about the change that is happening in the world caused by technology. Technology is taught by Teachers of all subjects to ensure that their students understand the world and can inter a profession with string values Selfe is not siding on either side she is simply stating both. Technology is having its effect on social productivity. It is said to believe that Technology is like it's own subject, like science or math. Americans don't want the change to happen slowly and by its self, what Americans want is to embrace the advantages of technology. Even though it is hard to make changes we have to work for that change.
Claim 1:
"Americans are the smart ones who use technological expertise to connect the world's people, to supply them with technology and train them to use it." I believe that Selfe is trying to say that Americans have adapted so well to the technological network, that we are part of it. Americans use technology every day if its not the television or the computer its an Ipod or cell phone, and since we use them so much we understand the meaning and whats behind the technology. It's funny to see my 13 year old sister know more about my mom's cell phone then my mom does, it just goes to show that my generation has adapted better to technology than my parents or grandparents generation.
Claim 2:
On page 303 the first full paragraph it states, "American family-- three smiling kids, two smiling, upwardly-mobile-parents posing in front of a spanking new functionally designed, split-level home, with all the optimism characteristic of the Eisenhower era." Right there shows the image of a TV family, not a "real family." The Ads show a family with no problems in the world just a happy-go-lucky family that has everything going for them. But what you don't see is what the family really is a family that has problems in some-way or another. I personally hate seeing families like that because in reality you don't ever see a family that is perfect, at least i never have. Yes, that family may not have had any types of technology in their house that may have corrupted their children, but now you look and see kids on their computers or watching TV and that's all they do. So yes TV may have an effect on Americans, but its something that really can't be changed.
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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversations 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! We 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!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
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! We 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!
--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100
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