It was Christmas morning when we first met, I remember your excitement as you opened me out of my case and how happy you were. The first thing you did was watch tons of funny videos, play games, and text friends. But things have changed. I’m no longer this source of joy that I used to be, I’m more of a daily habit. You wake up, check snapchat and instagram, watch a video or two and then listen to music. You barely text your friends anymore and you deleted every game, I guess I’m no longer any fun to you. I guess people just grow out of using their phone as a source of joy and I just become part of your schedule. What happened to us? you used to be excited to get out of school to play games, but I guess I’m no more than a glorified music player.
Month: October 2019
Today in class I chose to focus on my use of commas in my essay about social media and its effect on ones sense of self as this was an area I struggled with in my previous paper. I mainly focused on introductory commas and I was able to add or remove commas as needed so that the sentence was grammatically correct. Additionally, I looked at my use of commas when regarding the word “however” as I learned today in class that when combining an independent clause and a subordinate clause with “however” you need a semicolon before “however” and a comma after.
After reading “Social Networking and Identity” I used the chunking method to annotate it. Overall I liked this method as it allowed me to break up what was a pretty large section into small digestible chunks that I could take the time to understand and then move on to the next. The only con I have for this method is that it is a lot more time consuming than the other methods of annotation we learned.
{Topic}The topic of the use of cell phones and the negative effects they are having on today’s teens has come up a lot lately. {Restriction} Specifically, how the use of them has made teenagers less social than ever before. {Evidence} In Jean Twenge’s Atlantic article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” she talks to many teenagers on their views and experiences and is told by one teen that “she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone.” {Analysis} Most teens today are content to just sit in their rooms and use their phone since all the interaction they could ever want is done with their phone. In past generations, this was not possible so physical real life interactions were the only way to socialize with friends, building positive social skills.
“The intended audience matters, regardless of the actual audience”
“teens must grapple with who can see their profile, who actually does see it, and how those who do see it will interpret it.”
“the internet could—and would—free people of the burdens of their “material”—or physically embodied—identities, enabling them to become a better version of themselves. ” – Turkle
For my fifteen minutes of quiet reflection I chose to go to the cliff overlooking the beach on campus. I think it went pretty well as I was able to unwind for a bit and not think about anything else, it was pretty relaxing. I think one of the main reasons it was so relaxing was the fact that I didn’t bring my phone with me so there wasn’t the distraction of notifications and the urge to constantly look at my phone. It took me back to at time before I had a phone, when I was a kid, when I didn’t worry about anything and was care free.
After listening to Sherry’s ted talk about social media technology I believe that her main point is that social media changes who we are as people. Sherry has interviewed hundreds of people and the evidence shows that our devices have so much psychological influence on us that they effect what we do and what we act like. She mentions how things that would have seemed odd even a few years ago are now normal and accepted like texting during corporate board meetings, students text and go on facebook during classes, and having trouble making eye contact. Clearly the evidence shows that social media and the all powerful cell phone are changing who we are as people and mainly for the worst.
No one cares about your turtles or about annoying orange, post less things and try not to make a fool of yourself.
My revising process for this particular essay was a lot different than that of essays I wrote in high school. The main difference being I did not fall in love with my first draft and instead I scrapped large portions of it, added chunks and moved parts around to make the overall structure make more sense. I would count this step as evaluating as I made changes to my essay so that it better met the standards of the assignment.I also used the constructive criticism I received from my classmates to improve my paper which is something I am not used to as the typical comments I would receive on my papers would be all positive leaving me no room or ideas on how to improve my paper.To me this step is analyzing as I viewed my paper in parts highlighted by my peers and I then changed and made corrections piece by piece until my paper made more sense and flowed better. I believe this was the most helpful tool during the revision process as it helped me narrow down things I really needed to improve on and the things that I got right. Overall I am satisfied with my final draft. I think it is structured coherently, addresses the prompt, ties Dweck, bain and my experiences together and provides a thoughtful analysis on who I am as a learner and it gave me the foundation I needed to make a podcast about myself as a learner, I would consider this step to be creating.
Link to podcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-951268121/project2
Translating my essay content into a podcast was actually quite difficult, the minimum time requirement was two minutes so I tried to not go too far over that which meant I had to condense a lot of my thoughts into quicker and to the point ideas. My podcast ended up being about five minutes but if I had unlimited time I probably would have taken about ten minutes to get all my ideas, my experiences and connections between Bain and Dweck. I am overall satisfied with the final product as I added some uniqueness to the podcast by calling my mom and using her to gain insight on myself as a learner. I’d say overall the podcast took me two to two and a half hours to complete, not including the time it took me to understand how to use the audacity software through experimenting and watching tutorial videos.
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