Month: October 2018

To my knowledge, big data is a method of gathering information about everyone who uses the internet. This is achieved by monitoring what sites people go to and allows for analysts such as those regarded in “The Big Idea Behind Big Data” by Adam Frank. Some analysts use this in order to market products to people based on their footprint they leave behind as they traverse the internet. I have noticed this can be useful for suggesting items I wish to purchase, even if I never explicitly searched for them. At the moment I cannot recall any particular downsides, although I’m sure they exist.

At the start of the day, my laptop generally has minimal use if any as most of my classes are in the morning to midday. In the afternoon however, it’s a different story. Either work is getting done frantically in order to finish an assignment as soon as possible (without sacrificing quality of work) or I am playing games and socializing with friends from vast distances as I have nothing else to do. In the grand scheme of things, it’s pretty uneventful. But it’s a vital tool in my daily life.

In order to improve my experience in Biology, I am planning on applying current annotation techniques in order to better understand new material by always noting important information as well as its supporting evidence!

For chapter 10 of “Mind Change” by Susan Greenfield, I chose to use the chunking method, mainly focusing on information I found important to the overall purpose of the text. I highlighted the claim followed by the evidence using different colored highlighters and also annotated my thoughts on a separate piece of paper. I worked on the annotating until I reached two hours and thirty minutes of total work time, and then stopped. I was able to annotate and highlight 2/3 of the chapter in that time.

Quote

In the first paragraph of Jean Twenge’s article “Has The Smartphone Destroyed A Generation?” Twenge, a 25-year veteran of researching generational differences, describes her middle-school days. Twenge states how she would “Enjoy a few parent-free hours shopping with my friends.” She then wrote what she heard back from a 13-year old girl in regards to her experience at the mall and how it was under much heavier supervision. Twenge was clearly trying to contrast the two experiences and seemingly suggesting that her experience with friends that was completely unsupervised was somehow better than one where adults keep tabs on their children (Twenge, 59.)

Position

While I am not as well known for my generational difference analytics, I do believe I have a valid reason to argue that Jean Twenge’s main argument. Twenge discusses how smartphones have become the downfall of our generation, such as how she has found most teens to prefer online interactions rather than real-world interactions. This isn’t what IGen should be defined by.

We’ve gathered here today to say good riddance to my old Steam Account. SupahSpaceMarine was not the best username, and your posts were pretty cringe-worthy.

In the final production of Mateo’s Nighttime Delights, Mateo interviewed aquaculture tycoon Matthew Blendermann about his literacy given the fact that the visionary of fishes recently wrote a book!

The reason I chose this form of media is that if I did a video, I feel as though I would try to make it flashy and honestly that would’ve made my life about 500% harder than it had to be.

In terms of learning how to use Audacity, it honestly was a breeze. It took me about 5 minutes to understand how to edit the audio to make (somewhat) seamless transitions.

In terms of drafting the entire thing it probably took me about an hour, working with what I would say and how to make it seem like something not just thrown together in the last 30 minutes of the last day.

In terms of editing, I probably spent close to an hour and a half due to my roommates constantly coming in and out of our room or just yelling something to intentionally mess up the audio for me. I didn’t remove sections of audio that contained pauses or moments where I lost track of what I was supposed to say because that made it seem more natural.

Overall, this project was a nice change, though now that I have to let other people listen to this it seems slightly cringy.