ENC 1101-B3 & B4: Writing for Discovery
The new way to learn
Written by cci03 on November 5, 2003 - 15:16
I was surprised with the novel idea that in my ENC 1101 class I would not be doing any writing, but I would be doing a whole lot of typing. It surprised me because throughout my life English classes have been associated with long and boring essays that nobody but the teacher read. To surprise me even further I wouldn’t be turning in a disk with my assignments on it, but I would be submitting my essays to a webpage.

If that sounds like something you did in High School then your experience with technology is better than mine. It wasn’t a big deal that I would be typing or posting my writing but it was one because it just seemed out of the ordinary. Because it is!!!

When I phoned my parents and told them about this they weren’t surprised. They had been seeing changes in the way learning took place in school ever since I started attending one. I guess they have become accustomed to the idea that with time technology advances and new ways of learning have developed as have new home apparatus etc…

When John Seely Brown says “The Web is two-way, push and pull.” He means that in the same sense that we are gathering information from the web we are also contributing to the kind of information that is on there. I mean that since tons of teenagers look up the word “Britney Spears” on Yahoo.com soon the same people will have enough information to put up a website of their own (if they have enough time).

This concept goes with learning as well. When Brown mentions the episode where the technicians didn’t really pay attention to manuals or workshops it ties in with the giving and receiving. (The article was too long and I didn’t have enough time to find this particular sentence so I could quote him, sorry). This is how we like to learn these days, through interaction, either online or live. Of course this influences the fact that people will focus on a particular area of interest. We wouldn’t expect an engineer major to hang out with a pre-med major if he were to have a question about his heart, but I mean in the sense that people will start to realize what their interests are earlier because of this whole “hands on” and availability of information.
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Agreed
Posted by johnmac on November 6, 2003 - 17:18.
I'm also surprised that I didn't end up doing any writing for this class too. When we first walked in to the class I kinda happy that we weren't going to be a lot of writing, but that we would be participating in an online blogging community. This is a good example of growing up digital I suppose. I wouldn't be surprised if all classes are like this in the future.

johnmac
Hyperlink?
Posted by mebanite05 on November 6, 2003 - 15:08.
Wow! I really like how much detail you put into this writing assignment, it seems like you took your time in writing this and didn't rush through it.

I was also very surprised when i heard that we had to do no writing and a lot of typing, but i think i was even more surprised when he said that we will have no major papers to write a just a whole bunch of small ones!

One thing that i might change about this essay if i were you is that i would put a hyperlink to the article, otherwise great job!
 
No writing but typing
Posted by cel4145 on November 6, 2003 - 15:30.
Not to be nitpicky, but aren't we writing? Now, I know that everyone means handwriting here, but it's interesting to point this out because it means that until now, you are associating writing with handwriting.
Isn't This Better?
Posted by Roxie84 on November 6, 2003 - 13:03.
“To surprise me even further I wouldn’t be turning in a disk with my assignments on it, but I would be submitting my essays to a webpage.”

I thought this would be awful, but isn’t this better than handing a paper in and writing out our assignments by hand? Typing, then pasting it onto a blog is so much faster.
In the class room
Posted by Bixby150 on November 6, 2003 - 12:25.
I thought the same thing in the this class. I would have never thought that I would be posting stuff on the internet or even the thought of having a web site for the class. It is just that there was nothing like that in high school. I probably just did not see it because I am living in it whereas my parents are watching my life.