Michael Wesch’s video “A Vision of Students Today” opens up the eyes of students letting them know the depressing facts about the college students at Kansas State University and their thoughts on technology and schooling. It was amazing to watch this video and see that one student will be $20,000 in debt after college. In English we were asked to answer three questions: Why did they make this video? What’s going on in the world? Who does this matter too? I answered those questions thinking of the obvious, but what I should have done was look deeper into the message it is sending. We may not always do what the teachers/professors tell us or assign us to do, because we are busy listening to music, sleeping, eating, working and on facebook or doing other stuff on the computers. In the video a girl held a sign stating that we look at 1,281 facebook profiles, 2,300 web pages but we can’t even read 8 books. I personally was on facebook, myspace and my email, every day multiple times a day. Then I finally realized that it was getting a little out hand. So now I may go on facebook two or three times a week, myspace once every three weeks. I will admit I do go on my email more often but it’s for school and getting a hold of friends.
I believe that all the different types of technologies we have today are in fact helping us with our education systems. But taking laptops and phones to class can be distracting. I know of many people including me that text in class, and if they bring a laptop to class they most likely won’t be doing school work. So my advice to you is to use technology to benefit yourself and help you achieve what you want to achieve.
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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