In “Writing in the 21st Century”, Yancey says,
“We thus face three challenges that are also opportunities: developing new
models of writing; designing a new curriculum supporting those models; and
creating models for teaching that curriculum.” Yancey talks about how people
wrote in spite of what different cultures that thought of writing as not
important. She gives the examples of how
women or people of color were not allowed to write and how young children were
not able to write until they were older.
Yancey’s main argument is to for students to become better writers and
to become the next generation writers. Reading has become known as something
that can be done with others. It can be
intimate. Writing has become know as
something that is not easy. This is true
in my life as well. Sitting back and
reading a good book is enjoyable, but writing is something I do not enjoy
doing. In the 21st century we
have a new era of literacy. Yancey says this new Age of Composition is, “a
period where composers become composers not through direct and formal
instruction alone (if at all), but rather through what we might call an
extracurricular social co-apprenticeship.” This brings about the idea once
again that in the 21st century literacy is defined through
technology.
Writing Process
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Brave New World
Thompson talks about social media and our social
interactions with each other. He gives
examples of how on Facebook/ Twitter we are able to see what our friends are
doing, if they are sick, how work is going, etc. For example when Zuckerberg first made the
News Feed, people were shocked of how much was broadcasted to everyone. At first people did not like the News Feed,
but over time people came to realize it was a great way to connect with their
friends. The article defines “ambient
awareness” as incessant online contact.
The example they give of ambient awareness is when the News Feed first
came out people didn’t think they wanted to constantly be updated on their
other friends lives, but once they actually experienced this constant update,
they quickly became interested in what was going on. When Thompson talks about social media
updates being “skimmable” this relates to what we have been talking about in
class of how people are constantly skimming information opposed to reading in
depth. Literacy is defined in this
article through social media and our interactions with others.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Cognitive Surplus
In this article, Shirky talks about a cognitive surplus. Cognitive surplus is the free time people have. Shirky talks about how people waste this time by just watching television or going on the Internet. Shirky does not believe this is bad, he just thinks we need to take advantage of this cognitive surplus. This article gives us a new way to look at cognitive surplus and how to use it to benefit our society and ourselves. He wants us to use television and the Internet to make an impact on others. At the end of this article Shirky leaves us with the question, “If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?” According to Shirky he believes the answer is yes.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
1.
In this article,
the author talks about his recent notice of having trouble stay focused when
reading and researching for his writing. He believes his use of the Internet
has affected the way his brain works causing his research to be harder to focus
on for long periods of time.
2.
The Internet does
not allow us to really research. We are
only briefly researching ideas opposed to digging deeper into research.
3.
Literacy, in this
article, is defined the same as “Socrates Nightmare”. Literacy is being able to
read further into something as opposed to briefly looking over something.
4.
The definitions
are similar because they are both referring to the same thing.
5.
According to this
article, people are now just briefly viewing research opposed to reading in
depth to something. Certain research has
shown people to only stay on a website for a few minutes before clicking on
another website. This jumping around and not being able to focus on one thing
is the mentality people are now doing.
6.
The author gave
examples of his own personal experience, Friedrich Neitzsche and the
typewriter, and many quotes from researchers.
7.
Yes, the evidence
he gives all backs up his theory and gives experiences and scientific evidence
proving his theory.
8.
The answer to the
so what is the fact that the Internet is making research easy is only hurting
our ability to research and grow intellectually.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Topic Proposal
I am going to be analyzing Miley Cyrus’ twitter
account. I chose Miley Cyrus because she
is very involved in social media. I
recently watched a documentary on MTV about Miley Cyrus where she spoke of how
much she loved twitter and how it was apart of her identity as an artist and
person. Miley has recently been extremely
popular and is constantly tweeting and addressing the rumors going around about
her. She also just released and new
album and is tweeting her fans about the success her album is already
experiencing. I feel I will have enough
to write about on this subject.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Home
When I first saw Phillip Phillips on American Idol, I immediately became obsessed with him. His voice is so unique and different, and he
has the sweetest personality it is hard not to fall in love with him. Throughout the season I was constantly
pulling for him to win, and when he did I was so excited. I love how he writes his own music and stays
true to who he is. When I first heard
the song, “Home”, on the finale of American
Idol, I thought it was such an amazing song. The lyrics obviously meant a lot to him and
it was a song many of us can relate to.
After listening to the song for the first time I thought it was about
making someone feel at home in a relationship.
In some sense this is true, but after watching the music video and
reading all of the lyrics it is obvious this song is about Phillip Phillips’
new journey he is going on. He is
embracing a new lifestyle and even though it is new and unknown he is not alone
and will always have home. This song is played in the commercial for Extreme
Home Makeover and the meaning is different.
It is more of the idea of the family coming home to a new house and
feeling safe. In the show the people who
get new houses previous homes are unsafe or not healthy for the family. The song is a perfect fit for the commercial.
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