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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Conversation Beyond the Classroom”! The title of this blog refers to the community of active readers & collaborative learners we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with each other + a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
As students of Eng 100, you will use this blog to begin conversations with other academic writers on campus (students and instructors alike). We become active readers of each other’s writing when we comment on posts here. And, best of all, we are using this space to share ideas! I encourage you to use this blog to further think through the topics and writing strategies you will be introduced to this quarter. As always, be sure to give credit to those people whose ideas you borrow for your own thinking and writing (you should do this in the blog by commenting on their post, but you will also be required to cite what you borrow from your peers/instructors if and when it winds up in your essays. More details on that later…).
Finally, keep in mind that writing to and for this audience is a good way to prepare for the panel of readers (faculty at WCC) who will be reading and assessing your writing portfolio at the end of the quarter. We hope that as a large group of active readers, we can better prepare each other for this experience. But, in the meantime, let’s have fun with it! I am really excited see how far we can take this together!


--Mary Hammerbeck, Instructor of Eng 100

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

What Would Socrates Say? Summary

In the article "What Would Socrates Say?" by Peter Cookson, the author states that the world needs ti accept shared evolutionary collective intelligence and need to be open to what is necessary for helping this shared evolution; such as he said in "metacognition" the earth. Cookson tells that no matter what we "think" we know, we are still unaware of what is really going on in the world/universe. In Cookson's view, "To solve the 21st century's challenges, we will need an education system that doesn't focus on memorization, but rather on promoting those metacognitive skills that enable us to monitor our own learning and make changes in our approach if we perceive that our learning is not going well"(Cookson 3). In other words, Cookson believes that we need to change the way we are taught to learn and focus on having us teach ourselves and be able see the good thus need to make changes and be okay with those changes so that the world can be a better place.
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3 comments:

  1. mswrayFebruary 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM

    Let's say we were to take away the basic handwriting skills because "we don't need them anymore". When all the computers crash in the future and everything has yet to be done "the old fashioned way", people aren't going to know what to do because they don't have the so called "old fashioned" sklills such as handwriting..

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  2. Dean MacyFebruary 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM

    I have never thought of school just being memoriation skills. I really think that schools should change the way they teach our kids or even better yet teach them somthing.

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  3. mswrayFebruary 2, 2011 at 11:53 AM

    I <3 YOU!! :)

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