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Are Digital Media Changing Language?

1.) "Social networking sites offer additional forms of control. People exercise control in the way they design their pages: Staged photographs, exaggerated profiles, and padded friends lists enable online users to manipulate how others see them. In the words of one undergraduate, her Facebook page is "me on my best day.""




I completely agree with the above statement. Facebook allows people to exaggerate their lives most of the time to make them look better to his or her viewers. I hardly ever log in to find people beating themselves up for something. I do find that a lot of the time people are judging others ideas and beliefs on certain topics. Instead of judging what other people are doing, I think self reflection on an individuals own ideas and beliefs should be happening. "Me on my best day" is a very accurate statement on social networking.


2.) " Whatever the benefits of digital media, it is destroying the ability of young people to construct the basic unit of the English Language...the sentence."


The above opinion is understandable but I don't think its digital media that keeps young people unable to construct a sentence properly. Language is vital for any culture to survive and we need to be more concerned with adapting to how young people are thinking and responding to our language to make sure it does survive. A huge factor in survival is the ability to adapt.

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Future of Work

While I was in eighth grade, students were given an option to become a part of the school's news program, TV. 271. Every morning the class would report on school news, weather and sometimes videos we made would be on air. There was a lot of work put into interviewing staff and students, shooting the scenes and editing the video. As a class we would take turns being behind the scenes, reporting weather and being one of the three news anchors. As we were live on the air there would be malfunctions in the equipment or video software so we were taught to think on our feet to avoid dead air time.  This experience helped me prepare for my future in business by showing me how to effectively communicate with my peers and improve my time management skills as I became more comfortable with the technology that was being introduced.

                                                           

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The West is the Best

My name is Megan Madsen, I'm a 24 year old college student born in California but I grew up in northern Idaho in a resort town called Coeur d' Alene. I've spent time in Washington state and Utah as well. After college, I would like to teach middle school Social Studies. I believe there are many ways children learn. There are visual learners, auditory learners, kinesthetic learners and tactile learners. I want to make my classroom a multi-sensory experience to cater to every type of learner. Activities that will engage my students as they are gaining knowledge would include (but not limited to), using poetry while making rhymes for memorization, geography bees, field trips, picture vocabulary, nature hikes, hands-on museum visits, drawing and using clay/Playdoh to create models. 

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