In Hall’s paper, he talks about an online computer game, in which you create a person and basically go around and live an alternate life. Hall says you can do anything from clubbing to participating in sexual activities. You can even buy fake money for the game with your real money. Hall actually interviews a guy that says he “budgets about $40 a month to be cashed in for Linden dollars”, the games currency. Honestly, anybody that’s spending real money to buy fake money for a game has no life,..well except for the one in the game.
In the excerpt from Hass, she is saying that “writing is technology”. Basically she saying that without technology, the human race would not be able to write anything. Every way that we write something requires the use of technology or was made from technology.
According to Rashke, the world has become so dependent on technology that if higher education doesn’t use it, it’s going to “retard the entire course of Western history.” Rashke thinks that the world needs to forget about writings things down with pencils and pens and reading from books, and instead use technological things like computers and cell phones for everything. He doesn’t think the world is smart enough to use anything besides technology.
I totally agree with what Hass has stated. From crayons and markers to pens and pencils, they were all created through technology. And on today’s world, writing now revolves around the keyboard and the keypads on phones. All of the writing we do has something to do with technology. As for what Rashke says, I do agree that our world today is very dependent on technology, but I also think that if we were to be without computers, education would be okay with using pencils and crayons. Yes, higher education mostly uses computers for everything, but we didn’t start out in kindergarten learning how to write our names on a computer. If kids continue starting out with coloring and learning how to write as we did when we were in elementary school, they will be fine doing it all through their educational life.
With the use of computers in this class, I don’t think it has changed how I think or what I think. I’m sure I would have the same things if I was sitting in front of a piece of paper to write. It probably has influenced how I write because I now don’t focus on what I’m writing so much, but instead on meeting the requirement of the paper. The computer allows me to see how many pages I have or how many words I have typed, so once I reach the requirement, I try to wrap up what I’m saying and end the paper, or whatever it may be…like this journal for instance. In this class, the only enhancement of learning I gained from using the computer is creating a website, doing blogs, and yea…I think that is about all there is.
In the excerpt from Hass, she is saying that “writing is technology”. Basically she saying that without technology, the human race would not be able to write anything. Every way that we write something requires the use of technology or was made from technology.
According to Rashke, the world has become so dependent on technology that if higher education doesn’t use it, it’s going to “retard the entire course of Western history.” Rashke thinks that the world needs to forget about writings things down with pencils and pens and reading from books, and instead use technological things like computers and cell phones for everything. He doesn’t think the world is smart enough to use anything besides technology.
I totally agree with what Hass has stated. From crayons and markers to pens and pencils, they were all created through technology. And on today’s world, writing now revolves around the keyboard and the keypads on phones. All of the writing we do has something to do with technology. As for what Rashke says, I do agree that our world today is very dependent on technology, but I also think that if we were to be without computers, education would be okay with using pencils and crayons. Yes, higher education mostly uses computers for everything, but we didn’t start out in kindergarten learning how to write our names on a computer. If kids continue starting out with coloring and learning how to write as we did when we were in elementary school, they will be fine doing it all through their educational life.
With the use of computers in this class, I don’t think it has changed how I think or what I think. I’m sure I would have the same things if I was sitting in front of a piece of paper to write. It probably has influenced how I write because I now don’t focus on what I’m writing so much, but instead on meeting the requirement of the paper. The computer allows me to see how many pages I have or how many words I have typed, so once I reach the requirement, I try to wrap up what I’m saying and end the paper, or whatever it may be…like this journal for instance. In this class, the only enhancement of learning I gained from using the computer is creating a website, doing blogs, and yea…I think that is about all there is.
