=( I got confused...I thought EVERYTHING concerning the blogs were due on Monday now... oh well. Here it is anyway!
Let's see...what do I think about the potential of the internet and technology in terms of revitalizing composition? (I tried writing a poem but it was terrible)
I love the internet. I love online games and text messaging and AIM and e-mail and facebook. I would like to believe that it's going to do something major for education in composition. However, in all of my online experience, I'm going to have to say that from a English teacher's presecriptive grammer point of view I've seen nothing to brag about. For the most part, people seem to completely forget anything they knew about grammar, spelling, punctuation etc. etc. as soon as they log on. Economy is valued. Chat rooms...nothing intelligent goes on in chat rooms.
In online games misspelling things is pretty much the cool thing to do. I had a friend once whose screen name was Muro. It was frequently typo'ed as Murp. So he became Murp. Murpy. Murple. Nurp. etc.
Thanks to the internet, I have learned such eloquent phrases as: Stop pwning my doodz noobtard!!!!1111oneoneone ur mom is ftl
I don't think online classes (especially online composition classes) are very helpful or conducive to any real learning. I've taken a few, and because I'm fairly technologically literate, (at least moreso than my professors) I wizzed through them without ever actually reading any material or considering any of the assignments in depth. It was easier, and I was working 40 hours a week.
Which brings up another issue. I think that, as education moves online, people expect things to be done faster. People expect that more of the work will be done 'on your own time.' And because of this, everyone fills up more of their 'work' time...leaving a lot less time to consider any educational material...if that makes any sense at all. I'm feeling a little dazed.
From a more scientific, linguistic standpoint, on the other hand, the internet has some fascinating stuff to offer!
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I agree with you. Even though I am an English major when i text I hardly ever use correct grammar, punctuation, anything like that. Even on the blogs, since it is just thoughts floating around my head I just type it out as quickly as possible.
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