“Yet,
the quality of what someone puts down on paper, posts online or types into a
Blackberry cannot necessarily be held to a single standard of good versus bad
writing. Instead, it depends on an old concept: audience. According
to Baron, there is a difference between a grammatically suspect, poorly spelled
email to your writing professor and an email sent to a friend. In one
case the quality of writing absolutely matters. In the other, it may not (Karp,
2010).”
I
chose this quote because I strongly agree with what the author is saying.
People write differently when they are writing an essay compared to writing a
letter to a friend or even sending an email. Depending on who the audience is
depends on how the writing and wording is going to be. People are not sending
texts in paragraph form and indenting for each paragraph. Punctuation isn’t
being scrutinized on a text message compared to that of sending in an
assignment to an English teacher. So maybe I only see the work of students who
are not trying to impress me and just want to complete a simple explanation in
math class. My students don’t see writing in math class a big deal compared to
when they are writing in English class. That is something that we should
consider when we look at students writing and see who they are writing to. The Internet today is helping people build
onto their reading and writing skills.
“But
others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and
society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might
otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write
(Rich, 2008).”
I have a love
hate relationship with the Internet and that is why I chose this quote. I love a good book and being able to hold it
in my hands while I am reading. As a new
librarian, I want my students to utilize our books and enjoy reading them as
much as I do. I know there are some students that I will never see in the
library and that is something that I am just going to have to face. The Internet is a great source for people to
use for information and to find new articles and pages to read from. The
Internet has a wide variety of tools for students to take advantage of. I think
that the Internet has made a new type of reading and writing available for
people to use. A lot of my students talk
about being on the Internet for hours at a time and that’s okay to a certain
extent. I think that the web really does inspire people to become their own person
and creatively make their own pages or blogs that they can share their stories
on or even read others that they can relate to. Being on the web is stimulating
their brain and it is better than sitting in front of a television or playing
video games all day.
“But, digital
tools do bear responsibility for “flooding the scriptorium,” a phenomenon Baron
likens to the way we behave at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Essentially,
the huge opportunities and options for creating text (email, tweets, blogs)
cause us to write (or type) more than we ordinarily would. The result is
that we are less careful with our words (Karp, 2010).”
“But
others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and
society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might
otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write
(Rich, 2008).”
I think that both
of these quotes show that I stand for Web Evangelist. I think that Digital
Media is helping our students in the way that they read and write. People today
have so many resources that they can use to become successful in school and out
of school. Students today need to know how to use the Internet in the correct
way and see what it offers them. Digital Media today is just building on what
everyone already knows and it offers us so much more. Next year, I am going to be our schools new
Digital Media Specialist and I am anxious to show my students what the web has
to offer them and how they become successful students using those resources and
our book collection.
I chose this image because
when people are using the Internet, you are doing more than clicking on icons
and scrolling through pages. When you are going through the web you are
building new skills and sharing new things that can help others as well. You
can create your own pages and express your own individuality.
Resources:
Karp, J. (2010, January 26).
Does Digital Media Make Us Bad Writers? Retrieved June 6, 2015.
Rich, M. (2008, July 27).
Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading? Retrieved June 6, 2015.
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