Author: mblendermann (Page 3 of 3)

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.

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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.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that I’m going to be using Audacity to produce a Literary Narrative podcast!

(I hope this was all I needed to do!)

During the TED Talk named “Connected, But Alone”, I felt that there was one main point the speaker wanted to address: That we’re replacing actual connections with humans for lesser connections through technology. Personally, I don’t use social media and technology to communicate with my friends, I prefer actually talking to them face-to-face. But I can see how others would feel as though technology is the bridge to a simpler, better social life. I doubt that people will become completely inept when it comes to making actual connections with humans face-to-face, but the idea certainly is worrying.

This webinar honestly felt a touch insulting. I understand that this is a scholarly look at my generation with the intended audience being older generations that are teaching iGen students, but nevertheless the tone makes it sound like the speaker has a completely negative opinion of us. While some statistics I could understand and completely relate to, I often felt as though the speaker thought of us as a lesser generation. Granted, it was supposed to be a webinar regarding the social and educational changes of students through recent generations and isn’t intended to cover the entirety of generational changes.

My main concern when it comes to English Composition is the correct amount of commas. This is due to the fact that I tend to use a lot of commas in any form of writing, as it just feels like how it should be typed.

Matthew

Anxious, idealistic, steady-working, and competent

Lover of aquariums

Student of Aquaculture and Aquarium Sciences

Who feels anxious about taking this class

Who hopes to learn how to properly manage all his college work in this class

Who fears the potential workload of this class

Who loved the story “Rainbow Fish” as a child

Who read the “Edge Chronicles” series of books

Who struggled to get through the book “1984”

Who checks his Steam account every day

Matthew

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