Many students take their schooling seriously, and to hear words like those questioning their sincerity would anger any graduate who had taken great pains to successfully complete their education. Neusner also fails to see that professors who treat their students with a dismissing, angry attitude can’t expect to be loved and respected in return. “The Speech the Students Didn’t Hear” by Jacob Neusner addresses the students of Brown University and implies that the students there take advantage of their education. Neusner supports this by only using his elements of personal experience, as well as several hasty, misapplied generalizations. Neusner’s argument would have been more effective if he had supported his claims with other professor’s opinions instead of just his biased ones.
Moreover, students do not try to proof read their assignment before they hand it out. Besides he complained about students pay less attention on proof reading, he criticizes that students always try to copy and paste the original work from the Internet. He understands that technology can help everyone, and it makes human’s life efficiently. However, he thinks human should not apply their material which find on the Internet because some of those resource are very fundamental. At last, he believes that libraries and instructors should be responsible for teaching students how to do their research by using books to leads them have enthusiasm on their studies.
Not only does Carr believe this but states others, including friends and colleagues are also experiencing this affect. Carr’s goal is to push readers to think more critically about the negative impact internet usage can have on one’s ability to read and articulate articles. Although Carr provides some anecdotal evidence it is not sufficient evidence to prove that Google is making us stupid. In completing a critical analysis of Carr’s essay I will examine both the weaknesses and strengths of his argument and provide research and literature to support my belief that Google is not in fact making us stupid. Carr begins his essay by saying “I’ve had the uncomfortable feeling that over the past few years someone, or something has been tinkering with [his] brain”(91).
With reference to this, if students shy away from attaining greater dreams and goals and argue that they are not bright enough, then that is only an excuse. As the president of the university declares, there is no such thing as smartness; it is simply how much people try to get what they need and desire since lethargy and the thought that someone is smart will not take them anywhere (TED, 2013). The four pillars of success, he confirmed, were forming community amongst the students, high expectations, using researchers to create researchers and educational faculty getting concerned with their students’ affairs (TED, 2013). The high expectations create a feeling of curiosity
My experiences growing up did not help me develop my diversity consciousness as much as I would've liked. Getting a college education and learning about diversity in this class and my human resources class have helped me develop an understanding that people and businesses must understand that the world, and specifically America, is diverse and we must learn and grow to help make it a successful achievement. The most difficult challenge for me will be stepping out of my comfort zone. I'm not exactly a hermit, but I do like to keep to myself a lot of time. I will need to put myself out there, ask questions when I don't have any clue what I'm talking about, and be more open to talking to different people.
Shirky immediately establishes his credibility with The Washington Post readers by acknowledging his occupation as a professor in the field of social media. With this statement, he also diffuses any counter-arguments directed towards his insight and familiarity with modern technology. Furthermore, Shirky asserts that multi-tasking is a negative consequence of allowing laptops, tablets and phones to be used in class. He elaborates on the negative effects of multi-tasking by stating, “We’ve known for some time that multi-tasking is bad for the quality of cognitive work, and is especially punishing of the kind of cognitive work we ask of college students” (Strauss 4). To substantiate his position against the unproductive nature of multi-tasking, Shirky qualifies his statements with research from a Standford University study.
They point to the inaccuracies and unreliability of the content produced, which in turn misinforms students. However, as Jimmy Wales, president of Wikipedia says, “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge” (Jenkins, 6). This is the goal of the Wikipedia project, a goal worth striving for, for the betterment of education no matter what cons may present themselves. For that reason, if Wikipedia is used properly it is an extremely valuable resource to education. The inaccuracies, that academics argue permeate the project and misguide students, are very few and far between.
The consequences of Technology Clive Thompson’s “The New Literacy” argues against those that affirm that technology makes students become illiterate; he instead states technology in reality promotes students to write more. Although Gelernter agrees with Thompson in that technology has some benefits that can further expand students knowledge, he disagrees that technology promotes students to write more. Gelernter believes technology negatively affect students’ basic and critical thinking skills. Gelernter essay “Computers Cannot Teach Children Basic Skills” succeeds at being more persuasive in convincing its audience; the author achieves this by incorporating profound examples and facts in his essay to further emphasize the negative effect of technology. Gelernter and Thompson used techniques in their essays to try and persuade their audience to agree with them, yet both authors used different approaches to accomplish this.
Students could often feel challenged and nervous about writing a research paper on evolution. There is a dearth of appropriate information on the internet on evolution research papers and students who rely heavily on the internet could face some troubles. However, rather than being anxious about writing a research paper on evolution, students should begin their study and research on the given topic. Evolution research paper will follow the same structure and format like all other research papers. As such, students should begin their evolution research paper writing by creating an outline.
Education: The process in which an individual gains pointless knowledge for the opportunity to get wealthy. America's education system is awful at properly educating their students. The type of education that is taught in high school is only to prepare you for what you're actually going to learn in college. A lot of the courses being offered at high schools are impractical in our daily lives, such as trigonometry, Hawaiian history and British literature. These courses are useless unless you're going to major in one of those subjects, but most of us aren't.