Abbys Lament Reaction Paper Every day, society is changing by setting new laws, political structures and upgrading everything around us. Who’s really in control of this power? After reading Abby’s Lament: Does Literacy Matter by Robert P. Yagelski, it seems correct that at a young age kids are all “irrelevant” after all, what’s the purpose of learning to read and write if it has little power in the life outside of school. I agree with Yagelski even though Abby feels irrelevant in the “political and institutional society” there is no reason for her to stop her education “Literacy does constitute power.” (pg. 4) I remember in elementary teachers would tell me “You can be anything you want to even the President of the United States.” I know I’m sure not the President now, but that did not stop me from pursuing a higher education and moving forward.
Tsung suggests that there are many benefits of texting. His first argument is that texting is good for English skills. People practices writing and reading through texting. By messaging regularly, people have more opportunities to practice. Moreover, the author claims that although children usually use abbreviations, they seldom use it in their exams.
For example, my weakness is English in school, but I am getting stronger at it because I push myself through limitations rather than give up when I have reached my limit. Knowing how far you can push yourself is a key factor to learn during your growth as a person. You never want to give up and just stop striving to be improved more than you were yesterday, or last week, or last year even. The understanding that you don’t have to kill yourself to be better is a good way to measure your strengths durability. Just remembering that people defy logical strength all
A Campus of Our Own: Thoughts of a Reluctant Conservative In her 1996 essay, “A Campus of Our Own: Thoughts of a Reluctant Conversation”, Susan Saltrick describes her experience with technology moving from a positive thing to a negative thing. In her 39th year she began noticing more often that she was becoming middle aged. She found herself being grouped in with the “conservative of the new media scene.” She further stated that her views have changed to just say no to technology, and worries she may even switch political parties at the next election. She was not overly happy about this situation she found herself in, as someone that spent 12 years being a “cheerleader” for new media and speaking of the great potential that technology would bring for society in education and digital adventure to her social groups, and mainly accepting this information as reality herself. That is until her thoughts were provoked about the navigate affects of technology in our education systems, with everything digital, what is the point of having a physical education center.
It's not what they say; it's this energy they give off that makes us feel good about ourselves…a feeling that can only truly be achieved in person; face-to-face. According to Dr. Michael D. Yapko, today’s average 21 year-old has already sent and received more than a quarter million e-mails & text messages. Now that’s not to say we haven’t carried a quarter million conversations by the time we are 21, but the odds are stacked pretty high against us. We are collectively spending much more time alone with our gadgets, in front of screens doing things that typically indirectly involve other people. But now many of
For supporting his thesis, the author says that people was writing e-mail on the desktop computer in ten years ago, but it’s very easy to implement function in the cellphone. The author also mentions that people in the contemporary era already lost the ability to be alone and the capacity for solitude. I think the evidences which are provided by the author are not convincing. At the beginning of the essay, The most compelling example he gave was a teenager text more than three thousand messages per month. To make a compelling case, it would be the most people do.
This tool enables the reader to recognize a number of words automatically and also to use the acquired word attack skills in unknown words (ABLE KIT p.15). Thus phonics instruction are not the goals, but the means for achieving meaningful reading efficiently. Adams is one of the greatest promoters of the phonics approach (Adams, 1990). He claims that by the systematic learning method of decoding words, readers improve their reading skills and achieve better results, compared to readers who are taught by the more “haphazard approach” of the whole
The board of education should push back school times an hour because students will improve academically and they will improve their physical health. One reason the board of education should push back school times is because it will improve academic achievements. It is evident that less sleep has a serious affect on teens. According to “Pros and Cons of Later School Start Times” Leigh Ann Morgan states that the American Academy of Sleep Medicine says that not enough sleep disrupts academics by “Reducing concentration creating attention deficits, slowing reaction times, increasing distractibility, impairing decision making skills and causing forgetfulness.” Sleep is the food for the brain, when the brain is not fed well, the brain will not function well. Pushing back school times will increase the sleep a teen has, giving them more concentration at school.
She uses the word “cuz” (line 4), which is obviously shortened from “because” to emphasize the dying importance of correct grammatical usage and literature in our society, and instead the rise of importance in technology which is especially prevalent in our youth. “Text talk” shortens sentences such as: “Hello, what are you up to?” to “Yo, sup?” Although it may be much more convenient to stray away from the formal method of speaking, we do not realize that constantly using short-cuts and misspelling words does, and will affect the sophistication of our speech in the long run. Our writing skills will soon diminish, and any sense of personal connection that language once created will be gone. Not only is our language shortened for convenience, but the preparation of our diet is as well. Like “text-talk”, which instantly gets one’s message across, restaurants such as McDonalds and Burger King provide a similar instant gratification but with one’s hunger.
Nicholas Carr and Clay Sharkey debate whether or not the internet is actually making us smarter or dumber. “Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives- or exerted such broad influences over our thoughts, as the internet does today. “that is one of Carr’s viewpoints. Shirkey believes that “every increase in paperback book to you tube, alarms people accustomed to the restrictions of the old system, convincing them that the new media will make young people stupid. This fear dates back to at least the invention of movable type.” I tend to agree more with Sharkey because there are a lot of learning toold we can gain from the web.