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http://benfogg.weebly.com/blog.html
First Alternative Summarize a current reading for the course while also responding thoughtfully and generating provocative questions for the other group members to respond to.
I will be summarizing the Digital Immigrant and the introduction to a Catastrophic Bifurcation and attempt to generate provocative questions, but I was not very good at provoking in the other Drew Kopp class I took so here goes nothin'.
Digital Immigrants
Prensky’s basic point is that there are people born before the “digital age” that have since learned it and there are those that were born into it that don’t know anything different. He relates people that learned it later in life to people learning a new language or immigrating from their birth country to a new one. He explains that no matter how proficient they get at speaking the language and adjusting to the culture; they will always maintain the “accent” and will have one foot in the past and one foot moving forward. Prensky talks about how natives can adjust to the ever changing digital world more easily because they do not need to “translate” the new information from “their native language.”
He throws a bunch of studies in there where he argues that people’s brains and “thinking patterns” have changed. He even comments that “their brains may already be different.” I think of the brain scans they use to conduct these tests and imagine the brain to be like any other muscle in the body. Areas that get regular exercise are stronger (bigger) and areas that are uses less often are weaker (smaller). I think that is why the test show a difference in appearance and although I agree that their way of thinking is different, do not in anyway believe “their brains” are different.
Introduction to a Catastrophic Bifurcation
The other reading was very interesting to me. The over all idea is that books, like hieroglyphics, scrolls and stone tablets, are being made obsolete. Similar to the tape cassette and DVD, it’s gonna take some time before they are replaced completely, but they will be replaced just the same. The internet is the reason things are changing so quickly according to the reading. The introduction, among other things, talked about the coloration between revolutionary ideas and tragic historical events. Something I had never considered.
Do you think there is any connection between how quickly things are changing and the decline of our economy? (look again at pages 13-16) – Is page 17right… Are changes coming too fast to allow recovery time? Is it causing us to be less organized and less independent? Which Indian philosophy to we fall under? Sthula or Sukshama?
The URL that would take someone directly to your blog is:
http://benfogg.weebly.com/blog.html
First Alternative Summarize a current reading for the course while also responding thoughtfully and generating provocative questions for the other group members to respond to.
I will be summarizing the Digital Immigrant and the introduction to a Catastrophic Bifurcation and attempt to generate provocative questions, but I was not very good at provoking in the other Drew Kopp class I took so here goes nothin'.
Digital Immigrants
Prensky’s basic point is that there are people born before the “digital age” that have since learned it and there are those that were born into it that don’t know anything different. He relates people that learned it later in life to people learning a new language or immigrating from their birth country to a new one. He explains that no matter how proficient they get at speaking the language and adjusting to the culture; they will always maintain the “accent” and will have one foot in the past and one foot moving forward. Prensky talks about how natives can adjust to the ever changing digital world more easily because they do not need to “translate” the new information from “their native language.”
He throws a bunch of studies in there where he argues that people’s brains and “thinking patterns” have changed. He even comments that “their brains may already be different.” I think of the brain scans they use to conduct these tests and imagine the brain to be like any other muscle in the body. Areas that get regular exercise are stronger (bigger) and areas that are uses less often are weaker (smaller). I think that is why the test show a difference in appearance and although I agree that their way of thinking is different, do not in anyway believe “their brains” are different.
Introduction to a Catastrophic Bifurcation
The other reading was very interesting to me. The over all idea is that books, like hieroglyphics, scrolls and stone tablets, are being made obsolete. Similar to the tape cassette and DVD, it’s gonna take some time before they are replaced completely, but they will be replaced just the same. The internet is the reason things are changing so quickly according to the reading. The introduction, among other things, talked about the coloration between revolutionary ideas and tragic historical events. Something I had never considered.
Do you think there is any connection between how quickly things are changing and the decline of our economy? (look again at pages 13-16) – Is page 17right… Are changes coming too fast to allow recovery time? Is it causing us to be less organized and less independent? Which Indian philosophy to we fall under? Sthula or Sukshama?
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