From pencils to pixels

The gateway is seen here as the computer. The way of literacy. I agree almost because it is not yet completely taken over there still are libraries and some teachers enforce students to cite books which keeps it alive somewhat, but computers are taking over. Writing is a way of engineering materials in order to accomplish an end which makes it a technology. A pencil is technology because it always you to write which can accomplish many tasks. Written words are recorded unless destroyed in the book and can be used to story tell. Having word alone can have stories changed about because people forget and make it up. The computer is beginning to completely take over and it seems that most are ok with that or they just aren't aware. However, writing with pencil and paper needs to stay around or all past ways of literacy will be forgotten and the definition of literacy will change forever.

"Writing in the 21st Century"

Problems are creating new models of writing, having a curriculum support such models, and creating models to teach it. There is always something against writing it varies from century to century. Yancey is strong in his stance that we need to get with the 21st century and adapt with it. People associate writing with emotions someone is putting on paper or expressing yourself. Self sponsored writing is where there is an individual and not a group or institution funding the writer. Being with the 21st century technology is important because everyone else is catching up and if we begin to fall behind literacy could develop a completely new meaning.

Brave New world

With today's fast-paced modern world, we are going to utilize our social medias in this very similar way. we love having everyones information at our finger tips through Facebook, Tumblr, and all the other sites we utilize, but Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, quickly relaixed his users werent going to search for everyone's information everyday for an update on their life. The news feed was big because it allowed anyone to find out more about a person or local events. It allows people to keep up in the fast paced world in the 21st century. This creates a false sense of awareness which makes people more anti social because they already read online what someone had to say.

Shirky’s “Gin, Television, and the Cognitive Surplus”

1)The article is about cognitive surplus. We have so much free time that we don't even know what to do with it. His argument is that we spend to much time watching tv and not enough time making good use of the free time.
2)This article defines literacy as people who can look on the web and see the answer instead of digging deeper. The difference is that the other two articles say that literacy is digging deeper to understand the real meaning, but here however it is just knowing the information at hand.
3)Free time that people have and are doing something even if it is just thinking.
4)This article matters because it shows that we are devolving and not using our brain as much as we should.
5)"looking for the mouse", "cognitive surplus".
6)"We are looking for the mouse" is repeated time after time. It shows that even in the slightest way we make use of free time, the cognitive surplus, and it can be good because people can brainstorm and come up with the next new big idea.

Is google making us stupid

This article seems very worried about the fact that America and countries everywhere rely on technology now. This article says the reading is no where near as prevalent anymore due to the fact that you can type anything in on Google and have an answer right away instead of having to read through hundreds of books just looking for one single answer. They say reading isn't something inherent like speech, but is instead taught to us over a period of time. If we don't have as many people using books and looking or just reading for fun then the idea of reading and learning will begin to diminish more and more.

Twitter

Since I'm a twitter user mostly I decided to search for twitter accounts. Will ferril is who I chose because he is funny and talks about whatever he wants. He is not to attached to government affairs so he is ok with me. I am a big fan of him so I like it.

Social media

I realized that I somewhat know how to sensor when it comes to social media. It starts with Facebook which is open to my whole family and family friends with my mom watching it like a hawk. I am aware that she watches it like a hawk too. I show my nicer goody goody side on Facebook naming select few events like graduation and put up pictures. My twitter is on private because I don't want people looking at it. If a job could get my twitter I would have to delete most of what is on it. I had my instagram deleted because it was not a good representation of myself because it was pictures that other people would put up and tag me in that I didn't want. If a job was looking to hire me I would either delete some accounts or have some heavy deleting to do.