Looking at my papers from the last time to now I really wanted to focus on fixing my comma splice issues. Last paper I had a lot of run on sentences and this time around I looked deeper into my paper to make sure that I separated my sentences better with commas. As well I tried to focus on making sure each sentence had a complete thought to it instead of having fragmented sentences. Another thing that I worked on was integrating my quotes better and properly citing using MLA format.
Month: October 2019 (Page 1 of 2)
I liked the active reading strategy a lot more than chunking everything. I used color coding and one major pro was everything was color coded and easily organized. Some cons that I found with this was time, I’m not sure why exactly but It took me a very long time to get all of this done.
[TOPIC] Smartphones are a very large part of everyday life, you could even say that my generation, Gen I, cant even live without them. While these phones are a staple of everyday life I still would not go as far to say that they have destroyed our generation. [RESTRICTION] JEAN M. Twenge and her article that was posted into the Alantic seems to cover the more extremes as we talked about it as a class and none of us had experienced the same things. [EVIDENCE] In her article Twenge talks a lot about how kids are no longer doing the same stuff as previous generations like drinking and smoking. This seemed to be a pretty big piece of evidence and it is almost a counter example of how cellphones have not ruined our generation. [ANALYSIS] Using this example it seems to discredit the article because she says it almost like teens not drinking and smoking so much is a bad thing. [CONCLUSION] Overall I think that this evidence needs to just be reexamined so it fits with the more current trends.
“She also observes that most students are using their cell phones for taking pictures, texting, or sharing a screen image with a friend; in contrast, most of the adults in attendance are more fixated on their screens and less social with others around them(2).”
“She contends that although the social media platforms may vary and change, the reasons that teens use social media stay constant, such as independence (21), friendship (18), and identity (17) and social media help to fulfill their need to interact publicly (8).”
“Many adults I meet assume that their own childhoods were better and richer, simpler and safer, than the digitally mediated ones contemporary youth experience…The research I present here suggests that the opposite is often true” (16).
These were the three main quotes of the summary I feel, epically the third one here. I really feel like that quote is what completes her point of view because it is often our parents that get upset with social media.
Overall I hated doing this, It was a nice time to just relax and decompress but I was so stressed I think it made it worse. I did this in my house down in my basement turned all the electronics off and just sat on the couch. Although having no worry of social media was a new feeling because it has become such a big part of everyones lives.
Sherry Turkle made her TED talk I feel to address the major issues with technology today. People don’t know how to talk to each other, instead they stare at their phones and are unfocused. Kids in class don’t listen, they’re too busy shopping or on facebook, and it is the same with adults at conferences. She even used her own daughter as an example and showing just how truly addicted we are to our phones.
Don’t ever ask for a TBH or say you are doing TBHs, please.
Reflection on Podcast: This was one of the more difficult projects I have done here at UNE. Probably because I have never had any practice with making podcasts. Honestly I am not a big fan of the results, I hated the time restriction. I felt like I had a lot more detail and information that could truly help make it better.
Overall I liked the new way that I revised my paper. Instead of just looking at the basic surface level stuff like grammar or spelling I reorganized and changed the entire thing. I wouldn’t say that I am 100 percent satisfied with writing my new paper because this was the first time I have written a paper like this. Hoping that if I can keep working on it I will be a lot better on the next one.
As far as Blooms Taxonomy goes I believe that I went all the way to the creating step but never completed it. The main focus on my paper was actually analyzing the texts we read and how they connected back to me. Besides that I was also evaluating the two pieces of information on what opinion I most related to and actually applied to real world scenarios. Although I did not have these two key steps in my paper until the final draft, my base writing was strictly applying, understanding, and remembering.
https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/
I listened to the shorter styled podcasts, I actually enjoyed these because it was short and too the point, I never had to stop the podcast and rewind to try and figure out what is going on. Listening it is very similar to a news report, and is a style that I would like to mimic for my own project.
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