Nicholas Carr says, in his book, The Shallows, that because of his constant use of computers and the Internet, he has become unable to concentrate on one thing for long periods of time. He can no longer read books without losing interest in them after a few short pages. He doesn’t understand things at great depth, he looks for the shallow understanding of many things. I agree with what Carr said about what using the internet and technology has done to our ability to concentrate and focus on one thing and to read a book and understand things at a deeper level. Since using the Internet, I have noticed that when I look through magazines, I LOOK through them not read them.
I recently started a new position at my current work place and the software that this department uses is totally different from what I was accustom to using for the past thirteen years. Everyone was nice about giving me information from their perspective and from a manual that was written for new users, however, until I actually got the opportunity to sit at the computer and navigate through the system, enter information, and make a couple of mistakes, I
However, one of the most important ways to learn is to read by yourself. Online classes or home schools require vast amount of self reading time. In some of our classes, we also need to read the textbook to understand. So, Plato 's quote is inappropriate to describe college learning B) Summary At the night of graduation, the author is tired of the endless speech. She only offers a single sentence from Plato--" In these conversation, sometimes a spark is kindled which henceforth nourishes itself."
After 3 long periods, I made it out alive. Everyday, for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been reviewing notes I kept since the beginning of the year. I also retook and reviewed all of my tests and quizzes from each of the chapters that I kept since the beginning of the year in a binder. I followed the advice my physics teacher gave our whole class, “keep studying until you get the material down.” I did exactly what she said and restudied all of the chapters. When there was anything particularly hard, I asked my teacher and reviewed with her afterschool.
It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.” states Nicholas Carr in the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”. Has it ever happened that you stayed on the computer for hours and all you have written is your name and date? This is another effect that the internet has on us today. We easily get distracted and open new tabs to go on face book or any other social websites and make us procrastinate even more. We feel it’s easy to just search up an article in the internet and not even bother to read
AC1200089 EN110 Achieving Academic Excellence 5_06 Writing Assessment In today’s world, education is the cornerstone of life. Obtaining an education opens doors of opportunity. These building blocks of opportunity help shape who I am as a person. I am building a future, striving for success, and always looking to better myself. Abraham Lincoln once said “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” I have been haunted by similar words, in my own head, for quite some time.
Kids would make fun of me but I never gave up because in a situation like that, that’s the worst thing you could do because if you don’t keep trying you will never learn, everyone learns from their mistakes. I got here in the second grade. It took me about two years to learn English and three to read well. My first book was “Captain Underpants”. It was very easy and understandable to read because if I didn’t understand what some of
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” Nelson Mandela. Education is one of the most important factors needed to survive in life. Education is the key element to opening the door of opportunities to a person’s beneficial wellbeing. “For generations of families, education has been the path out of poverty. With a quality education children can acquire the economic, social, cultural and political capital they need to realize their potential and support their future families” (The State of America’s Children, Children’s Defense Fund 2014).
Such as, writing better essays, becoming more familiar with bigger words and incorporating them into my daily life. In my last class, we were taught how to identify poetic elements and how we run into them more often then we think. We also learned how to write different types of essays for different occasions. Some of the challenges I faced in his class was that he was a very strict grader and we had very detailed packets on books. I wasn’t well with reading the book on time but I was very good at catching up.
Now having to research and provide proper citings to given topics, of which I often had no interest. I began to detest writing, the practice of being forced to plan and propagate my thoughts on paper in fancy ways to “get ideas”. I always asked myself “what’s the point of ideas scattered in bubbles on a paper?” way too disorganized and it never once helped me to “gain ideas”. In fact nine out of ten times creating the prewriting exercises was harder than actually sitting down with a blank page and just writing because I was always able to just write what flows in my mind. Trying to compartmentalize and break it all down into generalized topics to follow made my work become overly stiff and choppy.