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Boyd Reading Quotes

October 15, 2019 / / 0 Comments

“Situations like this require significant monitoring and social negotiation, which, in turn, requite both strategic and tactical decisions that turn the most mundane social situation into a high-maintenance affair.” (Page 36)

“Some people assume that these ebbs and flows mean radical changes in youth culture, but often these underlying practices stay the same even as the context shifts what is rendered visible and significant.” (Page 39)

“As teens move between different social environments—and interact with different groups of friends, interest groups, and classmates—they maneuver between different contexts that they have collectively built and socially constructed.” (Page 41)

Time For Reflection

October 15, 2019 / / 0 Comments

This weekend, I went home. I decided to do my 15 minutes of reflection at home on Saturday. I went outside and sat in a chair in my backyard for 15 minutes. I found it to be quite relaxing. It wasn’t too weird for me because it’s something I like to do, but I mostly do it in the summer. The weather wasn’t perfect because it was a bit cold and had rained earlier in the day, but I still enjoyed the time by myself. I personally am someone who likes to find time for just myself. I feel I get almost overwhelmed if I am not able to find this time to be alone. Although I have done this before, I still felt myself wondering how other people in my life were, and this made me want to reach for my phone and find out. Turkle explained how technology can distance us from the people right next to us because we are busy trying to connect with people who are farther away. I think this is true because I wanted to check on other people when my own family was right inside my house. Also, when I sat for this 15 minutes, I reflected on how I was feeling so far this year. I haven’t found a lot of time to think about how I am doing in college, and although I was home when I was doing this thinking, I was still able to reflect on how I feel while at school. It’s such a new and different experience, and sometimes I’m so busy that I don’t find time to actually think about how I’m doing. Taking this time over the weekend helped me to realize that I should find more time while at school to sit and think like this without a lot of distractions around. This time and space can be harder to find while at school than at home, so I need to work to make this time.

“Connected, But Alone?” Response

October 10, 2019 / / 0 Comments

In her TED Talk, Turkle’s main argument is that technology is making people more alone and distant from each other. One example of this was that when a woman lost her child, instead of talking about her grief and struggles with a person, she talked to a robot. It was in the shape of a baby seal and the eyes would move to make it seem as though that robot was truly listening and understanding what she was saying. While some people found this incredible that this robot was able to comfort a woman who had lost her child, Turkle had a very different view. She thought it was sad that she was turning to something that could in no way understand and empathize with what she was going through. Turkle also claims that “technology appeals to us most where we are most vulnerable,” (7:30). By this, she is talking about when we feel upset, we turn to technology for companionship. My own view is that when Turkle insists we become more closed off when we are upset by turning to technology, people actually become more open. For me personally, I become more open to the people closest to me, such as close friends and family, and I find comfort in those relationships over technology. Although technology at times definitely has negative effects by pulling us away from the people that are right next to us, I think that Turkle also generalizes the population. However, I also do think that how she didn’t just talk about the bad side of technology in her TED Talk. She explained that she loves receiving texts from her daughter and that’s something that can be good when it comes to our phones.

The Fluidity of Learning Podcast

October 8, 2019 / / 2 Comments

I decided to make my podcast an interview-style, and I found it challenging to try to edit my essay so that the content would fit this style. I was trying to keep as much of the information as possible, however, this ended up making my podcast a lot longer than it was supposed to be. After realizing this, I took a lot of time to edit out details that weren’t crucial and removing entire portions of content that were in my essay. In the end, this made me feel as though my project was almost incomplete. I believe I was able to keep enough information so that it still made sense and met the requirements, however, I felt my essay was able to better display all my thoughts on this subject. The podcast overall took me a few hours between revising the content, recording, and editing. I think next time I use this software, however, I will be more comfortable with it so the process hopefully won’t take me as long.

Revision Reflection #1

October 8, 2019 / / 0 Comments

When revising my essay, I worked on global revision more than I ever have before. I switched paragraphs around multiple times until I reached what I believed was the most effective order. I even rearranged information within paragraphs if I thought it would make my point clearer. This step of revision was new to me, but I think it made a big difference. I also made a lot of changes based on the advice I received in my conference with Professor Gennaco. I added more information to better explain my thoughts and did more rearranging. Finally, I ended doing my local revisions. While this once would have been one of my first steps when revising, I saved this until the end. I am satisfied with my final draft because I spent a lot of time on it. However, I feel like I spent so much time on my global revisions that I didn’t spend as much time as I would have on sentence-level errors. Because of this, I feel that smaller errors could have brought down the quality of my essay.

When comparing my revision to Bloom’s Taxonomy, I believe I did a lot of evaluating and believe I was able to reach creating. After I wrote my rough draft, I thought it was good. However, after reading it again and receiving feedback from others, I was able to realize that it was not in the order that was most efficient and made sense. After analyzing my essay further, I was able to move the individual pieces around which made my essay a lot stronger because it flowed more smoothly, so this is where I brought in creating. This mostly was as a result of the peer reviews and feedback from my conference. Throughout my essay, I also used the other steps of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Starting with remembering and understanding, I was able to think about and understand what I read from Bain, Dweck, and Sherry and figure out how I was going to incorporate their ideas. I was then able apply the information from those pieces of reading and connect it with my own experiences in my learning. Finally, I analyzed it as the first step in revising my rough draft. I read through it and analyzed if the experiences I chose to put in my essay were the best examples I could use.

When I made the podcast, it was kind of difficult at first because I tried to make it as similar to my essay as possible. However, I realized that if I tried to get every detail from my essay and incorporate it into my podcast it would not only be in too much of an essay form, but it also ended up being significantly too long. Because of this, it took me a long time to decide what pieces to leave in and what to take out. I also wanted to do it as an interview-style, so trying to make that work took a bit of thought and effort. I think the most challenging part of the process was putting in the music in the background and working with the volume levels of the audio of the interview as well as the music with it.

Podcast Elements

October 1, 2019 / / 0 Comments

https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=765855335:765860697

I listened to the Hidden Brain podcast Baby Talk: Decoding The Secret Language Of Babies from NPR. In just the first two minutes, there was an audio clip from a video, brief background music, and a clip from an interview in addition to the narrator speaking and giving background to the podcast. He also gave a layout at the beginning of what was to come in the podcast and played short clips from later in the podcast to give a sense of what we would be listening to and what it was about. There weren’t long sections of the narrator talking, but instead, interviews were pieced in so there was a greater structure. Also, when they discussed music, music played in the background to keep the listener engaged and also have a better sense of what they were talking about. Sound effects were also used later when the podcast talked about bouncing babies up an down to music, there was a sound effect used to show the reader how they were bouncing them, and there was also music playing in the background which is what they listened to. In this podcast, the narrator was used mostly to explain further what the people he was interviewing were saying. In some places throughout the podcast, since it was about babies, there was a lullaby type song in the background. There were also many clips of different baby sounds that were played as they discussed what each of them meant and what people usually think when they heard them.

Critique Reflection #1

October 1, 2019 / / 1 Comment

One thing I liked about the way we reflected on these pieces was that there was a structure on how to review them. Before, when I was told to peer review a paper, I would automatically go to grammar and punctuation mistakes. However, when given a description of specific things I needed to comment on I feel like I was able to give (and receive) more structured and actionable feedback. I felt like I was easily able to give feedback on things that worked well and pieces that could be improved. As for the self-reflection of our papers, I liked making and having a key to show the different pieces of my writing. I personally find color-coding very helpful because it creates a visual aspect to the writing. Also, in this case, I think the color coding will be very helpful when looking back at our rough drafts and comparing them to the final drafts. It will show clearly what has been changed and improved upon. However, one thing that may not be completely helpful is that what we wrote were rough drafts. Because of this, there may be specific details and quotes we were planning on adding in later so color-coding this early may not have shown what we had planned for the paper content-wise.

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