Technology is advancing quickly, doubling its storage capacity and microprocessors every year and half. Technology has been incorporated into school studies as its own force. It’s just as important as science, math and english. Society believes in the power of the computer has over us and because of that we fear the effects of what technology can do to society. Everyone has their strong points in technology and with are cooperation we can advance further using each other’s strengths. We believe that technological change leads to productive social behavior change. We have embraced computer technology so enthusiastically over the past decade; teaching now involves computers no matter what subject. Computers have supported us with communication through government agencies, corporations or political groups. Technology is often viewed with optimism but has extremely potent fears. Advertisements can portray are collective American imagination about technology. They tell a rich and powerful narrative that shows values Americans can appreciate. Technology reveals the complications of our feelings and how they affect our lives and our surroundings.
Computer technology is here to stay and will be our driving force into the coming years. We revolve around the fact that technology is the greatest accomplishment in humanities lifetime. That may be true but can anything else trump computer technology. I believe the field of medicine of the best chance of triumphing over computer technology. Medicine does indeed incorporate computer but so does everything else; medicine, in my opinion, can explore new avenues of science for human benefit. Improving upon common medicines, creating a new variety of medicine altogether. Human enhancements like pace makers, steel fame bones, hearing aids, artificial lungs, hearts, livers all are minor advancements in medicine. Overall computers dominate our society and with this powerful tool, certain agendas are being devised to manipulate the public. Advertisements are there to entice us and show an alternate world where everything goes your way. A single picture is capable of doing anything; a picture is worth a thousand words. Technology will not always be used for the best intentions but I believe, despite certain claims, will improve our society immensely. How we use our new found discoveries will determine our progress.
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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