Misunderstood
When I wake up I stare at the light flickering above like fireflies in the night sky.
I don’t know why; As everything around is cold and dry.
I can’t wait to leave this place.
I can’t even see my hand in front of my face.
My feet touch the ground but the door is unfound.
As you talk to me I scream with expletives.
Again they come with the painful sedatives.
Again scared and lonely I can’t wait to leave this place.
***It’s all because of you for I am here.***
They don’t see you standing there but I know you don’t care.
You stand there screaming at me but they won’t set me free.
I wish you would stop so things would be normal.
Scared and lonely I can’t wait to leave this place.
Purpose of This Poem:
The whole purpose of the poem is an in-depth look at someone who is struggling with life but conveys it as a long troubled thought within the brain. The poem is constructed as someone speaking to someone else, but it’s not namely one person but all people. This person is locked in their head and can’t seem to escape. I chose to change specific words to scratchy and elegant text to show and convey significant meaning. The whole poem was written in a font that seems to show emotional release. The poem shows someone who is writing a letter to get out their tormented thoughts and emotions. The part I like the most is the sentence that sticks out in the middle of the poem. “It’s because of you for I am here”. It puts the whole poem into perspective and was written that way because the font that I used at the beginning of each letter of every sentence looked different, so I expressed the sentence in a more bold way.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
The Best of Both Worlds (Avtivity 3)
Should we assume that all young people love or hate a particular form of interaction? Vaidhyanathan discusses how young people are calling themselves “tech sauvy”, but do we really need to be? Most households today have a computer and people use them for specific tasks. You have gamers, techies, and bloggers. They use their computers for a particular reason, but they don’t need to understand about the main frame interface or what RSS means. I don’t believe that computer users fit into a one size fits all systems.
A diverse population can’t be squeezed into a one size fits all category. Vaidhyanathan uses statistics, other writers, and their opinions to illustrate how these technological advances are not a way for us to learn. I don’t agree with that. Traditional methods are not the only way to learn. Technology has helped us build a more advanced and convenient way of life. It’s opened up a whole new world of jobs and opportunities. For example, dating use to be a way of one on one getting to know someone. Now the popular way to meet someone is to go on E-harmony and Match.com., then ask each other a million questions before couples meet. We use computer chips in cars now to run hundreds of functions. Computers are now so advanced that you no longer need a key to start the car, sync which makes things hands free. These are all things that technology have provided us. Everything on automobiles is practically all digital, if technology wasn’t constantly improving we would not have advances in our new cars, homes, and even dating. Even the way we look at medicine has changed in a drastic way. The improvements in cancer and heart research are also due to how information can be shared among different doctors. Diseases are caught quicker, and therefore more people are living longer.
If one person or all people knew everything there was to know about technology and its advances then why would we need someone like Bill Gates? Why would he need us? Everyone learns in different ways. It seems to me that marketing niches find this as a weakness, and they feed on it. Companies like Leapfrog and V-Tech are making products that help our kids learn, but are they the best method? Are these kids considered tech sauvy? Will they grow up to be technologically advanced? Vaidhyanathan says that he usually deals with Americans from the ages 18 to 25. He describes that, “our students read when books work for them ( and when I tell them to). And they all ( I mean all) tell me that they prefer technology of the bound books to the PDF or Web pages.” What about all the students he hasn’t been in contact with? Such as those who are younger or older, and those with different backgrounds. This paragraph is quite good!
People learn in a variety of ways we learn. If that’s true then how can you make a statement that “all” students like books over PDF files. Aside from morals and ethics, companies make products that will make them money, but we have the choice and freedom to choose what fits for us. If we don’t want to fall into categories of followers, then we can reuse to purchase their products. I personally have friends who are on their computers constantly, and others who don’t care at all about computers. Are computers convenient for everyone? No, but if it works for you then use it.
Vaidhynanthan seems to be showing us that he’s all for traditional methods of learning. It’s a more personal and more of a one on one way of learning. On the other hand, technology has helped us expand our way of learning as well. He claims that we only use technology as an easy way out, but it’s not necessarily the better way of learning. How can one person choose just one way of learning for students? I chose a mix between both traditional and technological advanced ways of learning. As I have stated above, people learn differently, Vaidhynanthan talks about how his students prefer books instead of computers. It may be true for his sample group, but not for everyone. Computers make things convenient and easier to attain information. With the fast pace way we live, people don’t always have time to go to a library and do research. Computers have given us the instant information at our fingertips.
The best of both worlds is the key to complete learning. Technology and traditional learning are part of a whole complete education. Vaidhyanathan discusses in his paper about how people prefer traditional learning and bound books over PDF files and websites. I chose to show how both ways can make a productive learning environment.
A diverse population can’t be squeezed into a one size fits all category. Vaidhyanathan uses statistics, other writers, and their opinions to illustrate how these technological advances are not a way for us to learn. I don’t agree with that. Traditional methods are not the only way to learn. Technology has helped us build a more advanced and convenient way of life. It’s opened up a whole new world of jobs and opportunities. For example, dating use to be a way of one on one getting to know someone. Now the popular way to meet someone is to go on E-harmony and Match.com., then ask each other a million questions before couples meet. We use computer chips in cars now to run hundreds of functions. Computers are now so advanced that you no longer need a key to start the car, sync which makes things hands free. These are all things that technology have provided us. Everything on automobiles is practically all digital, if technology wasn’t constantly improving we would not have advances in our new cars, homes, and even dating. Even the way we look at medicine has changed in a drastic way. The improvements in cancer and heart research are also due to how information can be shared among different doctors. Diseases are caught quicker, and therefore more people are living longer.
If one person or all people knew everything there was to know about technology and its advances then why would we need someone like Bill Gates? Why would he need us? Everyone learns in different ways. It seems to me that marketing niches find this as a weakness, and they feed on it. Companies like Leapfrog and V-Tech are making products that help our kids learn, but are they the best method? Are these kids considered tech sauvy? Will they grow up to be technologically advanced? Vaidhyanathan says that he usually deals with Americans from the ages 18 to 25. He describes that, “our students read when books work for them ( and when I tell them to). And they all ( I mean all) tell me that they prefer technology of the bound books to the PDF or Web pages.” What about all the students he hasn’t been in contact with? Such as those who are younger or older, and those with different backgrounds. This paragraph is quite good!
People learn in a variety of ways we learn. If that’s true then how can you make a statement that “all” students like books over PDF files. Aside from morals and ethics, companies make products that will make them money, but we have the choice and freedom to choose what fits for us. If we don’t want to fall into categories of followers, then we can reuse to purchase their products. I personally have friends who are on their computers constantly, and others who don’t care at all about computers. Are computers convenient for everyone? No, but if it works for you then use it.
Vaidhynanthan seems to be showing us that he’s all for traditional methods of learning. It’s a more personal and more of a one on one way of learning. On the other hand, technology has helped us expand our way of learning as well. He claims that we only use technology as an easy way out, but it’s not necessarily the better way of learning. How can one person choose just one way of learning for students? I chose a mix between both traditional and technological advanced ways of learning. As I have stated above, people learn differently, Vaidhynanthan talks about how his students prefer books instead of computers. It may be true for his sample group, but not for everyone. Computers make things convenient and easier to attain information. With the fast pace way we live, people don’t always have time to go to a library and do research. Computers have given us the instant information at our fingertips.
The best of both worlds is the key to complete learning. Technology and traditional learning are part of a whole complete education. Vaidhyanathan discusses in his paper about how people prefer traditional learning and bound books over PDF files and websites. I chose to show how both ways can make a productive learning environment.
500 word Reflection (Social Portraits)
For my 500 word blog I have chosen the article “Gender Differences in “Social Portraits” Reflected in MySpace Profiles” the article questions whether there is a link between males and females on a self identity level. Females seem to be more susceptible to posting everything about themselves in their interest area on their MySpace rather than males. Males are less likely to post whether they have a significant other. The first article I read by Hans Geser is contradictory to what Erring Goffman believes. He finds MySpace, an adaption the technological world, to be “a rich source of conventionalized communicative symbol” “a social construction of reality”. (Goffman, 239) The purpose of them studying MySpace linkage is another way for us to take a look into the roles of masculinity and femininity. Does MySpace play a part in developing these roles? Their study was less directed towards asking people about themselves, but rather lurking through their MySpace to find the answers.
We can post just about anything we want on a MySpace, pictures, music, blogs, comments, and personal information. In the spring of 2007, a studied analysis was done on MySpace and some of its users. A network was formed by studying a hundred people, and the information they found on their MySpace’s. All those who were chosen had some connection to the researcher. Either the people were on the friends list within the network, or they were a friend of a friend so all the profiles were open and able to be seen by everyone within that network. For the study, the researcher had monitored each profile and searched for specific items. The researcher looked for personal quote, age, gender, relationship status, education, whether the main picture for their profile had their significant other with them.
Within the results, the researcher concluded that MySpace acts only as a mediator. Males were less likely to mention relationship status and other personal facts. Men kept a sense of their individuality, while women took a more interpersonal approach. In society we are already aware of this. For example when women get married they take the males last name. Their identity is more formed around the new relationship but still keeping a sense of individuality while males avoid it all together. Personally I don’t think this study is effective. We as humans are still capable of lying, it doesn’t matter if you’re male or female. If we look at someone’s MySpace, we would only see what that person would want us to see. MySpace is a façade for what may or may not be true. The only way to really know someone is physical communication, which was explained in Hans Gesers article “Is the Cell Phone Undermining the Social Order?: Understanding Mobile Technology from a Sociological perspective”.
References
1) Goffman E. (1979) gender advertisements. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2) CyberPsychology & Behavior, Volume 11, Number 2, 2008
We can post just about anything we want on a MySpace, pictures, music, blogs, comments, and personal information. In the spring of 2007, a studied analysis was done on MySpace and some of its users. A network was formed by studying a hundred people, and the information they found on their MySpace’s. All those who were chosen had some connection to the researcher. Either the people were on the friends list within the network, or they were a friend of a friend so all the profiles were open and able to be seen by everyone within that network. For the study, the researcher had monitored each profile and searched for specific items. The researcher looked for personal quote, age, gender, relationship status, education, whether the main picture for their profile had their significant other with them.
Within the results, the researcher concluded that MySpace acts only as a mediator. Males were less likely to mention relationship status and other personal facts. Men kept a sense of their individuality, while women took a more interpersonal approach. In society we are already aware of this. For example when women get married they take the males last name. Their identity is more formed around the new relationship but still keeping a sense of individuality while males avoid it all together. Personally I don’t think this study is effective. We as humans are still capable of lying, it doesn’t matter if you’re male or female. If we look at someone’s MySpace, we would only see what that person would want us to see. MySpace is a façade for what may or may not be true. The only way to really know someone is physical communication, which was explained in Hans Gesers article “Is the Cell Phone Undermining the Social Order?: Understanding Mobile Technology from a Sociological perspective”.
References
1) Goffman E. (1979) gender advertisements. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2) CyberPsychology & Behavior, Volume 11, Number 2, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Visual Advocacy Reflection
As for my project I think it turned out well, my cartoon was slightly condenced as a result from the scanning process. However, it gets the point across. My cartoon was drawn in 4 pages including several cells per page. Also, the cartoon doesn't tell the whole story, so I used my paper to fill in the missing blanks. My cartoon tied in view points from statistics, real life stories, and the media, as it portays teens destructive decisions. I feel that it all falls into place.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Visual Advocacy Project
Ive chosen the topic I call, " The destruction of our Youth". what i mean by that is, showing how far is to far? I want to show how our teens continue to binge drink and show a life of destructive behavior even though they know the dangers, also the abuse of sex and drugs. Everything we do has a ripple effect on our lives down the road. Ive chosen to do a short comic strip. Its one i've been working on for awhile but conveys a little of what im talking about. The comic is not completly done but it gets the point across.
What I hope to accomplish with this assignment: I want to show my love for art, my personal thoughts and insights in hopes someone shows that same intrest.
My arugument: "how far is to far" and I'll show this with statistics ( Binge drinking, rapes, std's, Drug use), real personal stories, as well as the new show "Busted" on MTV.
What I hope to accomplish with this assignment: I want to show my love for art, my personal thoughts and insights in hopes someone shows that same intrest.
My arugument: "how far is to far" and I'll show this with statistics ( Binge drinking, rapes, std's, Drug use), real personal stories, as well as the new show "Busted" on MTV.
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