Sherry Turkle in her TED Talk “Connected, but alone?” discusses how technology is negatively impacting how we engage with others and how we view solitude. While she argues early on that “technology is taking us places we don’t want to go”, Turkle’s talk isn’t about giving up technology completely; rather that we need to be more self aware of our relationship with it and ourselves. She goes further to claim that technology is so “psychologically powerful” because it provides a constant companionship – a false empathy – but without the risks of intimacy. This controlled connection is always there and allows us to retouch, edit, and carefully plan out what we text, tweet, or post; thus giving us more control than traditional conversation. Turkle says that this is leading us as a society to expect more from our smartphone than our friends as it appeals to us when we are vulnerable and lonely: “being alone is becoming viewed as a problem to be solved”. The TED talk is concluded with the idea that if we are never able to be alone, we will become more lonely; Turkle’s solution to this is issue is that we need to come to recognize our vulnerabilities and value solitude.
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My high school English teacher harped on the correct use of commas so much that the comma rules are forever etched in my brain. Yet, when it comes to the use of other forms of punctuation, specifically colons and semicolons, I struggle. This lead me to overview the section on colons (P-6) and semicolons (P-2) in The Little Seagull Handbook. I learned that semicolons are used to join related independent clauses, so the fragments before and after the semicolon must be able to stand alone.
Ex.) Our team had poor communication last night; we lost the game.
Also, I learned that colons are used to set off a list, quote, or explanation.
Ex.) On my walk to the grocery store I went over what I needed to get for dinner: potatoes, chicken, and cheddar cheese.
I am choosing to use the software Audacity to do my Literacy Narrative Presentation. I have chosen to use this software primarily because I have used this software in the past.
Madalyn
Hard-working, adaptive, engaged, quiet
Lover of basketball and adventure
Student of Health, Wellness, and Occupational studies
Who feels intrigued about taking this class
Who hopes to learn how to effectively integrate my own ideas with others in this class
Who fears are unknown about this class
Who loved the story Ferdinand as a child
Who read the Tillerman Cycle series of books
Who struggled to get through the book Cold Mountain.
Who checks Twitter every day
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