In this video made by John Maggio and Rachel Dretzin called "Growing up online". There are some very eye opening things that occur with todays youth on the internet, how parents are coping with it and what they have to say about it, and what effects they think it has on us as students and as kids. I had no idea some kids were so obsessed with Facebook and Myspace and could spend all day on it. I guess if i figured there would always be a few people, but nothing like this.
The part of "Growing up Online" that i agree with most is where they talk about bullying. Bullying is the real internet problem in my opinion. If little kids are getting talked to by strangers they now know to not give them any information and to tell them to stop and block them. Thats old news, and i dont think parents should be nearly as worried about it as they should be twards bullying. I've seen kids be made fun of on the internet, but ive never met anyone who has actually gone and met someone they met on the internet.
Parents should have some idea of what their kids are doing on the internet, if they are being bullied or influenced in bad ways, but they shouldnt be like the mother in the movie who was trying to get her sons facebook password when he was a senior in high school. That is a little bit rediculous.
Us young people have grown up with internet pretty much always around, we have learned how to use it, what we can use it for, and how we can communicate with others and the whole world. Without the internet we would all be much different. I think the internet is bringing us far more good than evil. There are always things to be cautious about, but if used for the right intentions, most kids are doing the right thing.
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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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