The information in the sources I listened to got me thinking about what data gets collected from my online habits. On my phone, I will often see ads on instagram or facebook for products that I was just recently looking at and thinking about buying. For example, at the beginning of the year I bought a brand of granola that I hadn’t eaten before, and a few days later I saw an ad for it on instagram. It makes sense for marketing but seems like an invasion of privacy, and that something is always listening to what you are doing. It’s interesting how in other countries such as China, this invasion of privacy, and not being able to control gets access to your data is already common. Hopefully, this doesn’t go on and won’t become more common across the world.
Category: Integrating Ideas
While using the chunking annotation method I highlighted and bracketed claims and underlined evidence or arguments that could be used to support that claim. I did not do much extra annotation because I had highlighted or underlined most of the paper. Some of the pros for this process were that I feel like I was able to find all of the claims and understand the writers main argument. However, some cons would be that I felt the process to be very cluttered and I was only focused on finding the claims. Personally, I don’t think this style works the best for me and I felt I would have been more efficient with another method.
“The ability to understand how context, audience, and identity intersect is one of the central challenges people face in learning how to navigate social media” (Boyd 30).
“But more often than not, teens talked about wanting to have a space where they weren’t constantly scruitinized by adults and peers. By becoming anonymous and being an invisible part of a crowd, these teens knew that they weren’t building a reputation within the site”(Boyd 43).
“Teens are struggling to make sense of who they are and how they fit into society in an environment in which contexts are networked and collapsed, audiences are invisible, and anything they say or do can be easily taken out of context” (Boyd 53).
In Sherry Turkle’s TED Talk “Connected, but alone” she discusses the disadvantages of modern technology and how it is affecting our communication and conversations today. Turkle argues that we are substituting communicating through technology for real human connections and conversations, and as a whole it is making it harder for us to talk to each other.
For example, Turkle talks about an 18 year old boy who talks about wanting to be able to have a real conversation at some point. She mentions how this is a result of utilizing technology such as texting to replace actual conversation because it is easier to control. As a result, when people have face to face conversation it is often awkward for them with little communication.
For the most part I agree with Turkle’s claim that people’s use of technology has made it harder to form connections and have meaningful conversations. I have seen it happen with people around me. However, I also believe that people want to be able to have more meaningful conversations now as they realize technology sometimes takes that away.
After reading Bain’s Chapter 2 “What Makes an Expert?” I feel that I have been a surface learner in many instances. For example, last year when I took AP Chemistry I really struggled in it and never got very deep into the material being taught. I resonate with Bain’s point as he says surface learners “looked for facts and words they could memorize, attempting to anticipate any questions someone might ask them”. During chem I would always try to absorb as much information I could from the textbook, even though the majority of the class was application based. Being a surface learner did not work out too well for me in that class because I failed at least half of the tests. As Bain puts it “surface learners usually focus only on passing exams, not on ever using anything they read”, which I can completely relate to. Since I had a lot of trouble with this class I wasn’t really focused on learning more on a deeper level. I never really focused on expanding my knowledge of the subject. Like Bain says “if you try to remember something as you attempt to understand it and relate it to other topics and questions, that is fundamentally different than simply trying to poke it into your brain to pass an examination”. If I utilized this strategy I probably would have done better in AP Chem and would have been able to learn more. My experience does relate to Bain’s observations on the drawbacks of surface learning as I feel I did not end up retaining much information and didn’t do well in the class.
Yesterday I did homework in the library from about 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. I felt pretty productive and got most of my work done. However, I was with my friends so I did get distracted at some points. Today I did homework in the commons from about 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. I also felt productive here and was able to spread out all of my work, which was good. However, I was pretty tired and kept zoning out.
After looking at the photos of famous writers from the past I feel that my workspace was most similar to Dorothy Parker’s because I like to do homework outside and it helps to have all my work out in front of me. I also thought my workspace looked similar to Emilie Zola’s because it can sometimes gets cluttered and I have a lot of stuff on my desk. He also looks stressed which is how I probably look when doing homework.
One event where I had a growth mindset was when taking AP Statistics last year in school. I had never taken honors or AP math before and I would always take easier math classes because I didn’t think I was good at math, but my precalc teacher encouraged me to take the class. I was somewhat nervous to take AP Stats because I thought it would be really difficult, as I never really liked math. However, I feel that I went into the class with an open mind, and I put a lot of effort into the work from the class. I found that the more effort I put into a chapter and completing all the assignments to the best of my ability, I would do better on the tests. Something that was helpful to me and encouraged a growth mindset, was that after tests and quizzes we could go over any problems we had gotten wrong to see where we had made mistakes and learn from them .
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