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Student Essays on Technology and Culture
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013-06-26
主題Education / Student Life & Student Affairs
ISBN148419750X9781484197509
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ktZVngEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In Walden, Henry David Thoreau says, "Men have become the tools of their tools." His statement is as true today as it was in the nineteenth century. Our twenty-first century tools-and toys-are changing cultural behaviors. During the spring semester of 2013 at the University of West Florida, students enrolled in English Composition 1102, Section 0823, considered how new technologies have changed human relations and culture by stopping to reflect on how their lives have been impacted. Although most of the instruction time in the course is aimed at improving writing skills, in order to focus student compositions, the instructor of each section chooses a theme or topic. For the spring semester of 2013, I chose "technology and culture" because the topic is broad enough to accommodate diverse student interests and because it is relevant to present day, allowing for original student thought in ways that connected them with historical writers and philosophers such as Thoreau. Over the course of the semester, the class discussed contemporary society across a range of disciplines and the effects of technological innovations. Students chose topics of interest and explored in memoir, commentary, and report genres how technology had affected our culture and their lives. For the final project, each student revised a previous essay for optional inclusion in this book. The following essays are those that each student elected to contribute. As editor, I assembled the essays in alphabetical order by author and modified only the format to fit the book structure. The minimum word count for each essay was one thousand words, hence the title of this book. If a picture is worth a thousand words, as claimed by the century-old adage, then a thousand words is also a picture into the life of each student. I hope that readers will enjoy these essays as much as I did. N. J. Schrock, Editor, May 2013