Thursday, December 1, 2011
Reflection of the Class
I am not one who enjoy's reading or every thinks critically about what I read. I just read things because I had to. This class has taught me alot about think critically, and has helped me realize that it is okay to express my opinion about issues. Before I never cared enough to say what I thought, but now I see it is important to express your beliefs. One aspect of class that I really enjoyed was having smalled groups that we talk in about the material in class. I am not always comforatable speaking in front of class, so by having smaller group I could still share my thoughts. The Dumbest Generation reading really bothered me because that is a stero type our generation has had to live with and it is so frustrating. We are not dumb, we live in a society were technology allows us to not have retain as much common knowledge as people use to. It is harder to have to look up information in books compared to getting online and looking it up. That being said it is clear that we do depend on technology a lot, but I think Culture Jams over exaggerated that. We are still in touch with nature, and care about people. We have not lost empathy because of all of the violence in movies. But that is just my opinion, and it not right or wrong. What I really learned in this class is that knowing other peoples opinions are important because it helps you be able to justify why you feel the way you do and it also chanellegs you to think about issues differently. Towards the end of the class when we started talking about censorship I realized that I would miss books it they were gone. Although I do not read often I do enjoy siting down with a good book every once and awhile. I don't agree with the banning of books, if you don't like what they say don't read them, simple as that. Authors take time to wirte books and it is not right to get rid of their work because it is offense to someone people. Over all I truly did enjoy this class. It has made me realize that general classes are just important as our major classes and that I want to retain the knowledge taught in them.
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I agree with you that even though this was a general education course that it was important. I've related a lot of what we learned to other classes and even in my own life. What you said with how we depend on technology because we were taught to use the internet for information, causing us to lose the ability to retain as much, was so true. If Bauderlein really thinks that we are that stupid, then why did his generation teach us to be that way (not saying that we are dumb in anyway). At this point in time we all learn about technology this and technology that, which seems to be way more important to some teachers than learning from a textbook. It was a frustrating article and I think that he needs to get his head out of his ass and realize that each generation has knowledge in different areas.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and what Megan said as well. Even though this was a gen-ed and I came into it thinking, "great I have to read a bunch of novels," I took alot out of it. I think it is important that we were able to discuss these kind of issues because they hold a bigger impact than what we all think. I believe the small groups were really helpful too. We were able to target smaller issues and talk about them in depth where as in large group discussion you can't really do that. "The dumbest generation" article did piss me off too, because were not all like that. I think society does have some kind of empathy too, and that even though technology has a large impact on us as a society, we don't completely lose our humanistic instincts such as love, passion, determination.
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