In the video "A Vision of Studnets Today" Michael Wesch and his students at Kansas State University show examples of how the students learn, what they need to learn, their goals, dreams, hopes, what their life will be like and what kind of changes they will experience throughout their lifetime. The video first starts out with an empty college classroom, then shows it full of students, each student holding up a sign one at a time. Each sign shows different facts about how they lear, what they learn, how they spend their time in class, and what thier life will be like after college. A few students claimed to spend more time browsing the web during class, instead of paying attention and actually working on school stuff. Some bring their lap top in, but don't use it for school. They buy books today for hundreds of dollors, but some don't even open them. Do they not open them because they don't do their homework? or is it simply because they don't need to because they have the internet? One girl said that she will read 8 books this year, then go on to say that she will also read 2,300 web pages, and 1,281 facebook profiles. They read more online then they do in books.
I believe that all the technology we have today can be beneficial to our education. Although at the same time can be very distracting. Many students like to text, facebook, and just go on the web during class, which can be a distraction to them, and other students in the class. If the students connect with what they are learning in class to their personal life and how it would benefit them, then we probably have as many people not paying attention in class. Technology needs to be used to our benefit, so we actually learn something and can accomplish what needs to be accomplished.
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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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