In Carr’s essay, “Is Google Making us stupid?” he implies that the use of technology such as the internet has changed our perspective of thinking; he implies that we have become a world of multitaskers that are at a fast pace all the time now. Carr talks about how he has been using the internet more and more over the years, and how focusing on simple task such as reading a book has become more difficult for him due to the constant use of the internet and its fast paced virtual world. When compared to the PBS Frontline documentary, “Growing up Online”, this can easily be seen s a connection with students not being able to focus in class. The internet is an enhancing tool when it comes to becoming more social online, but all this social behavior can take away from actual focus on what’s really important for students to be learning. Children have grown up in an era of technology taking over most of our lives; and they are growing up with completely different perspectives on what childhood really is. When I was around 8 or 9, social networking was unheard of. The constant use of social networking has made me feel like people (including students) have become lazy and don’t have the drive to actually interact with one another in person. When we go onto the internet, the are constant bombardments of advertising and things that take away our focus from what we really want to be doing. Students deal with this “silent” problem every time they go onto the internet; they go from one thing to another at a rapid pace that when they sit in a classroom, there’s not that fast paced world. From what Carr says, I can connect the two and say that because of what Carr says about how he has lost focus, we can only imagine what students are dealing with when they walk into a classroom without the use of technology.
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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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