The video shows how classes are ineffective in today’s society. They aren’t adapting the classroom to benefit the students; they’re making it harder for the student and themselves. As class sizes grow, one teacher is not enough to maintain a connection with their student. Teachers are taking on huge classes, over 115 students, and over that time period they’re flooded with work. The books and material given are not always relevant to the student and causes the student to lose interest. Today’s education system seems to be lacking because traditional methods aren’t enough to involve the students. Traditional schooling is failing and keeping us from larger issues. The education system is attempting to teach our future generations, but don’t seem to grasp the fact that their version of teaching is not the students version of learning. The students in the video mentioned how technology can save us or how technology alone can save us by helping the world and problems that we currently can’t take on today.
I think we’re capable of creating a learning environment that benefits the student and teacher. Evolving is all about learning a new way achieving the same goal and opening new doors to better possibilities. I learn when I’m involved in the classroom, debating with other students, talking one on one with teachers and getting involved outside of the classroom. Technology for me is a great luxury and spoils me rotten and that is the down side, but I can do some much more with the tools at my beckon call. I believe technology is humanities calling and trying to deny that truth is unwise. Our society is built on growth and traditions are never forgotten; we have a solid foundation to which we can hold tight too. As my dad mentioned to me, all the best writers learn the rules, their foundations, so they can find ways to bend them to their will and create works of art.
Welcome!
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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