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.
Category: Active Reading
“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
My method for annotating Chapter 2 of “What The Best College Students Do” is the same method I use for annotating really any text. I highlight or underline bits and pieces I think are very key to understanding the main idea of the text and adding a little note on what I believe they are trying to say or what is important about what they are saying. I believe this method is very effective because writing out these foot notes helps me retain the information and the things I can’t remember I can always go back to and read my thoughts that I had made earlier.
It has become common today to dismiss criminals as these delinquents beyond hope of redemption or improvement. It is easier to think of them as these people who do not care about anything and who will not learn from their mistakes. This could not be further from the truth for former prisoner Robin Woods. In his youth he used to break into houses and steal things to sell later. But one time, he was careless and stole too much to be able to reasonably sell and when he tried to sell them to friends, one of them soled him out. He was arrested and given a harsh sentence of 16 years in prison. He described the prison as the worst he had ever been in, beatings were very common and it was every man for himself. Conditions were so bad that he and other prisoners started a riot, Robin was severely beaten and an extra seven years were added to his sentence and he was sent to a super max prison. To pass the time he tried reading, but as a kid he was placed in special ed and never learned to read. Determined Robin used dictionaries to teach himself to read and eventually he learned and started his own library in his cell. He became so advanced that he picked up mistakes in Mark Stephens encyclopedia, he even wrote Mark Stephens a letter about the mistakes and received responses. Eventually Robin was transferred to another prison and his books were taken from him, Mark Stephens heard of this and fought to get his books back. Eventually Robins was sent home 5 years early on good behavior and he even got to meet his long time friend, Mark Stephens and spent an entire day with him. Ironically after spending the day with him, he was robbed and said that he finally got how it felt.
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