Summery: Growing up Online was about our generation and the negative effects the Internet has on some people. Kids talked about how addicting the Internet can be because there is always someone online to talk to or something to entertain you. Parents are only worried about pedophiles and stockers, not the other dangers. Kids have different lives on the Internet. Lives they hide from there parents. Parents have no control over what their kids are doing online because kids can go almost anywhere and find a computer with Internet access. Computers used to be for adults but now teenagers know more than adults about computers. They know so much about computers that they know how to get around parental controls. If teenagers aren’t on the Internet their on their phones. Kids are so used to being entertained by the Internet or their phones that teachers use smart boards and computers to get through to them. Kids are having more trouble staying focused in class because they’re so entertained. Students say they don’t even read books anymore because they can just read spark notes and pass a test with no problems. When it comes to the Internet there is no discursion or privacy for anyone. Kids love social networks because of the attention they get from the people on them. If its on the net its open to everyone. Kids don’t let their parents see anything they do or say online. Most kids know to block creeps but some do not. If kids are being inappropriate online, their probably doing it off line. The Internet also helps kids kill themselves and helps them starve themselves. Parents know nothing about the Internet because they grew up without it. To kids the Internet is their best listener. Kids also experience cyber bullying. Kids need to learn not to believe everything they read online or it can hurt them.
Response: Parents should just talk to their kids about their fears of them being online instead of interfering and making them rebel. Kids are different online because the people online are different. Kids need to report when they are being bullied and get counseling and support, not try to deal with it themselves. I think websites that encourage things that hurt people should be deleted offline. I don’t think parents taking computers away from kids will stop them from doing anything online because every other kid in America has one. I think adults should be just as educated, as we are when it comes to computers because then they would understand more about them. Yeah there are bad people on the Internet but there are bad people in the real world to. Teenagers are teenagers their going to post stupid stuff on the computer and there is really nothing you can do but educate your children not try and perfect them from everything because they will just rebel and do it anyway. A parent’s job is to just be they’re when they need you.
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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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