Blog #4
Prompt: After reading Ch. 1 in The Curious Researcher, form three research questions about new media and language/communication. Under each question, write 3-4 sentences explaining why these questions demand researched answers.
Response:
"Do video games withdraw those who play them from the people around or do video games open up a new way to communicate with others?"
These questions demand researched answers for many reasons. For starts, most people from older generations believe that video games take away from children communicating and connecting with others. However, the introduction of online video games allows these kids and teens to communicate and interact with new people on a daily basis that share the same interests as them.
"Does the introduction of new media positively or negatively impact our generation?"
While arguments are available for both negative and positive impacts, it is definitely a question that needs to be researched. It is no doubt that new media has negative and positive impacts on the language and communication of today. And more importantly, research can be done that can figure out what age groups that new media has the biggest affect on.
"Do laptops and tablets boost or diminish the learning ability of children and teenagers?"
This needs to be researched because it is an issue that is usually only turns up one answer. However, not everyone is the same. While these items might help enhance the learning ability of one student, it can be a distraction to another student and have the opposite affect on their learning ability.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
Blog #3
Prompt:How might new media technologies permanently influence our language, the way we communicate, and how we form knowledge? In the same way we no longer have "high English" (thou, shalt, thine, thither, etc), what features of our current language might change? Why?
Response:
New media technologies greatly influences many aspects of our generation. For starts, it affects how we talk. It allows for new acronyms, new words, and new ways to interpret the ways that we talk. It also influences how we communicate, from different mediums of how we communicate to the adaption of newer technologies in order to make communication newer and easier. New media technology also provides a different means of obtaining new knowledge by providing access to news and information as it becomes available and updated.
New media technology also affects the way that our current language changes. As the population and technology adapts, the language that we use must also adapt in order to keep our vocabulary and the meanings of the words up to date. The information and language that we have and use can never stay the same. It is always changing and updating in order to stay up to date with the people that use it.
Prompt:How might new media technologies permanently influence our language, the way we communicate, and how we form knowledge? In the same way we no longer have "high English" (thou, shalt, thine, thither, etc), what features of our current language might change? Why?
Response:
New media technologies greatly influences many aspects of our generation. For starts, it affects how we talk. It allows for new acronyms, new words, and new ways to interpret the ways that we talk. It also influences how we communicate, from different mediums of how we communicate to the adaption of newer technologies in order to make communication newer and easier. New media technology also provides a different means of obtaining new knowledge by providing access to news and information as it becomes available and updated.
New media technology also affects the way that our current language changes. As the population and technology adapts, the language that we use must also adapt in order to keep our vocabulary and the meanings of the words up to date. The information and language that we have and use can never stay the same. It is always changing and updating in order to stay up to date with the people that use it.
Blog #2
Prompt:After reading the Introduction from The Curious Researcher, answer the following questions. How does language affect the construction of meaning? What is "formal" writing? How do you know? Who gets to say what "proper" language is? Why are such rules (un)important?
Response:
Language affects the construction of meaning in many ways. For starts, the situation that the language is used would affect how the meaning is absorbed. A word used in a conversation with friends might have a different connotation then if it was used in a conversation with a college professor. Formal writing is presenting a work that most resembles who we are and not the person that we think we should represent when writing a research paper. It means using language that we use on a daily basis and not words that we would most likely not use. This is formal writing because formal means to present yourself as you, not pretending to be anybody else.
Proper writing is determined by whoever will be reading your writing, In students' cases, it would be the professors that they have at that moment. For the cases of professional writers or bloggers, it would be their audience and whoever reads and critiques their works. Such rules are important because it can help to prevent anyone from being offended. But at the same time, these rules can be a hindrance because it makes the writer formulate their works on what their audience would like to here rather than what they would like to write.
Prompt:After reading the Introduction from The Curious Researcher, answer the following questions. How does language affect the construction of meaning? What is "formal" writing? How do you know? Who gets to say what "proper" language is? Why are such rules (un)important?
Response:
Language affects the construction of meaning in many ways. For starts, the situation that the language is used would affect how the meaning is absorbed. A word used in a conversation with friends might have a different connotation then if it was used in a conversation with a college professor. Formal writing is presenting a work that most resembles who we are and not the person that we think we should represent when writing a research paper. It means using language that we use on a daily basis and not words that we would most likely not use. This is formal writing because formal means to present yourself as you, not pretending to be anybody else.
Proper writing is determined by whoever will be reading your writing, In students' cases, it would be the professors that they have at that moment. For the cases of professional writers or bloggers, it would be their audience and whoever reads and critiques their works. Such rules are important because it can help to prevent anyone from being offended. But at the same time, these rules can be a hindrance because it makes the writer formulate their works on what their audience would like to here rather than what they would like to write.
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Blog #1
Prompt:"The Judgment of Thamus" is a chapter in Neil Postman's 1992 book Technopoly: the surrender of culture to knowledge. Since we're reading this excerpt twenty-four years after it was published, I'd like you to write about what Postman gets right or wrong about technology's influence on information, knowledge, access, equity, language, etc. Your post, like all blog posts this semester, should consist of at least two solid paragraphs that make direct reference to the text.
Response:
In Postman's book, he discusses multiple influences that technology has on information. Some of the points that he makes are accurate. For example, when he talks about technology positively affecting part of the population while it negatively affects another is an accurate statement. The older generations of the current population would not have as positive an affect from technology as the younger businessmen in the world would. Different circumstances benefit from technology differently. Also, more tradition-orientated cultures would benefit less from technology than would the always changing and progressing United States.
On the other hand, some of the arguments that Postman makes are not as accurate. For example, when he discusses technology taking away from the productiveness in a classroom. Postman says that technology takes away from interactions among students and that it hinders learning ability. Technology in a classroom can positively impact the learning of students. It can connect students to outside and current information that otherwise wouldn't be in textbooks. It can also enhance the teachers' knowledge of materials that they are teaching by allowing them to have access to updated information pertaining to the subject being discussed.
Prompt:"The Judgment of Thamus" is a chapter in Neil Postman's 1992 book Technopoly: the surrender of culture to knowledge. Since we're reading this excerpt twenty-four years after it was published, I'd like you to write about what Postman gets right or wrong about technology's influence on information, knowledge, access, equity, language, etc. Your post, like all blog posts this semester, should consist of at least two solid paragraphs that make direct reference to the text.
Response:
In Postman's book, he discusses multiple influences that technology has on information. Some of the points that he makes are accurate. For example, when he talks about technology positively affecting part of the population while it negatively affects another is an accurate statement. The older generations of the current population would not have as positive an affect from technology as the younger businessmen in the world would. Different circumstances benefit from technology differently. Also, more tradition-orientated cultures would benefit less from technology than would the always changing and progressing United States.
On the other hand, some of the arguments that Postman makes are not as accurate. For example, when he discusses technology taking away from the productiveness in a classroom. Postman says that technology takes away from interactions among students and that it hinders learning ability. Technology in a classroom can positively impact the learning of students. It can connect students to outside and current information that otherwise wouldn't be in textbooks. It can also enhance the teachers' knowledge of materials that they are teaching by allowing them to have access to updated information pertaining to the subject being discussed.
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