http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org I'm no Socrates, but Socrates is no me. Thu, 01 May 2008 18:46:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Final Project Summary As a senior who is about to enter the “adult” world of jobs and interviews, I have been wondering lately whether my facebook page will become a liability. One day my mom called to tell me she’d read an article about a young man being fired from his ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/05/01/what-happens-in-collegestays-on-facebook/ My main focus will be on the sinister side of Facebook: namely, the fact that thousands upon thousands of high school and college students are posting practically of their lives, oblivious or dimly aware of the fact that all of their personal information is not only being stored for an ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/04/19/my-final-project-is-in-the-works/ marriedtothesea.com Awww...this was our last reading. This was the last article in the book. That is so bittersweet. :'-( I got way, wayyy more out of this class than I ever imagined I would. "From Memex to Youtube"? No lie! I thought we'd merely talk about how Youtube reflects the degradation vs. ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/04/09/the-w3/ As many of my classmates have pointed out already, Sherry Turkle brings up many apparent pros of videogames that I had never given any credit to. The idea of videogames as meditation, control, mental cleansing, etc., all seemed plausible. Ok, kind of. Somehow to my mind, it was ok when ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/04/07/video-games-and-computer-holding-power/ (The topic of this blog began as a mere comment on Kira's blog, until it grew so long I decided to make it its own post...) I could see why a reader would draw a connection between "Immigrant" and Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" but I was pretty confused about whether ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/04/01/immigrant/ "The pupil is 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new." ~Ivan Illich This article corresponds suspiciously well with an argument, er, discussion I was having with my friend over Easter weekend about education. Both of ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/03/24/deschooling-society/ Say whhhat!!?? Yeah. I do not even know what to do about this one. I was hoping to glean a kernel of comprehension by reading my classmate's posts about Viola's essay, but it seems they are generally stumped as well. At least that makes me feel more comfortable admitting I ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/03/19/will-there-be-condominiums-in-space/ I glances over some of my classmates' posts on the subject before actually reading the Morningstar/ Farmer article, and I have to say that for the most part, I am in agreement with Elizabeth: I'm not into video games, and I just don't get it. The two authors, however, are ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/03/17/lucasfilms-habitat/ That was amazing! I love that McCloud's article, or should I say comic, drew my attention to details about comics that I have never noticed or thought of! At home I read the comics everyday and yeah...I had never before considered the implications of the text, the shape of the ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/03/12/time-frames-scott-mccloud/ Seymour Papert's ideas about using computers to "turn every child into an epistemologist" were exciting! He said that essentially, by having children program computers- instead of having computers basically program them- children become not just active learners, but "active builders of their own intellectual structures." By 'teaching' a computer how ... http://gwisn2qx.umwblogs.org/2008/03/10/mindstorms/