For this weeks post I am focusing on The Nature of the Book:Print and Knowledge in the Making. The printing revolution had a major impact on the printing press. The printing press had dramatic effects on European civilization. Its immediate effect was that it spread information quickly and accurately. This helped create a wider literate reading public. Printing has changed over time in this day and age and over time it will continue to change. Their are many questions as to how printing culture developed, why it is successful and how it took hold. The issue of piracy takes place every single day in the printing world. Companies take credit for work that has not been established by their own partners.  Hard work and virtue discredits these authors as printing continues to exist. Any printed book is both the product of a social and technological process and they both have a correlating starting point in the printing world. Printing consists of a large number of people, machines, materials to make it all happen, to have books and newspapers in our hands, to establish things. One book doesnt just exist, it goes through a wide range of processes before it hits store shelves and our hands.

For this weeks reading I am reflecting on Marie Battiste “Decolonizing the University Indigenizing ¨. We face many challenges everyday which include social, economical and technological issues. This article highlights many interesting points about how “Eurocentric thinking” is viewed. I am an education major and it made me think about how students from foreign countries feel when they come to America and must adapt to the language and the American culture. I have seen foreign students who are very bright academically especially in Math but fail in other subjects because they cannot read or write the language. It is unfortunate how society has taught us to be afraid of knowing more then one language. English is not the only main language in the world. We have students from different backgrounds and cultures and we must learn to accept them. We can’t view things from only one perspective. We must be open minded. Imagine how frustrated people and students feel when they don’t know the language they want to get it but they cant.

 

For this weeks post I am reflecting on Walter Ong “ORALITY AND LITERACY Writing restructures consciousness”. This reading especially stood out to me. “Secondly, Plato’s Socrates urges, writing destroys memory. Those who use writing will become forgetful, relying on an external resource for what they lack in internal resources. Writing weakens the mind. Today, parents and others fear that pocket calculators provide an external resomce for what ought to be the internal resource of memorized multiplication tables.” All my life my parents have always taught me different strategies on studying. They were not allowed to go to school but they were fascinated with education. Although they were only allowed to go up to 8th grade, they are such intelligent people. My parents grew up extremely poor but my grandparents made sure my parents studied. They had no paper, so they studied on napkins. They memorized there history, there math and writing skills on napkins at home. My parents have always told my sisters and I the more you write the better you’ll understand what your studying. I was always a math struggler but when I was little my mom use to sit with me and she would teach me how to do math problems over and over again by writing them down. If you write things down using your own words it’ll stick better in your memory. Writing, in my own experience has been the best strategy to help me with school, work and just life in general. I disagree with Platos statement because writing is very crucial in everyday life, it is the key in life. It may not be everyones favorite thing to do, but it is something that you hold onto for the future. The human brain cannot remember everything. My parents grew up without calculators and they tried to teach my sisters and I how to do math without calculators as well. They can do math in there brain as fast as a calculator.

For this weeks reading I chose to reflect on Cybernetics and Ghosts. The part that stuck out to me the most as I was reading the article was “Electronic brains, even if they are still far from producing all the functions of the human brain, are nonetheless capable of providing us with a convincing theoretical model for the most complex processes of our memory, our mental associations, our imagination, our conscience.” This part stuck out to me because being born in the early 90’s and now we are in 2018 our generation has seen a drastic change in technology especially in this day and age. Technology producers have always said that eventually school teachers will be replaced by robots, there will not be anymore teachers or customer service representatives etc. I am a chilhood education major and this made me reflect on how students are so phased by technology that education is not education anymore. Students are so stuck on there phones and tablets instead of picking up a book to read they pick up there tablets. It is sad but true how slowly we will see robots acting like humans and will have the functions to tell you everything you need to know.