In Rachel Dretzin’s and John Maggio’s film ”Growing up Online”, they show many aspects of the internet and how teens can easily abuse it. They threw out many examples and stories of kids who were completely emerged in things like Myspace, Facebook, Chat rooms or other potentially harmful sites.
One of them was 14 year old Jessica Hunter. Jessica was always being bullied and had to go through a lot as a teen. One day though she got fed up and created a new persona online. She posted close to pornographic photos of herself and gave herself a new name- Autumn Edows. People would post on her page every day telling her how beautiful she was and how they would like to be like her which boosted up her confidence I’m guessing. Jessica believed that if other girls could take some dirty candid photos and post them, why couldn’t she create site of her own? Her site though was definitely not as childish and immature. Her parents then got a call one day from the principal who told them other parents saw these and they were very offending. This was the first time her parents had ever heard of this. Jessica had to delete all the photos off her computer in front of her mother- a lesson well taught.
I believe that “90% of teens are online, immersed in a virtual world.” (As Frontline states) We are all wrapped up in our social networks and what not talking to people we know and people we don’t know. I think that many of us especially teens; know not to click on anything that we shouldn’t. For the most part we’re smart enough to have common sense to not navigate o some place that can’t be helpful to us or computer. Like in the video some of the teens claimed that when a random person asked where they lived or personal information they would just delete or block the person immediately. Growing up listening to our parents telling us to be careful and not give out our location hasn’t just slipped out of our minds.
The internet is a major contribution to the future and now. We depend on it for so many things I honestly don’t believe we could ever be without it again. It expands our ways of thinking and communicating, we just have to be aware and get too engrossed in it.
Welcome!
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
No comments:
Post a Comment