Artifact Reflective Report

Improved Essays
In the second project, we were required to write about an artifact from a specific culture, and describe our relationship with this artifact. I chose my E-reader (aka the Amazon Kindle) to be my artifact. This E-reader is not a part of my own culture, actually, I could have chosen something else that is from my culture. However, when I look up my possessions, I did not find any artifact that I have special relationship with, and use it in a daily basis. I think my Kindle was something special to me, and I started using it recently which will help me a lot in my writing. For that I chose it over the other artifacts from my own culture.
At the beginning, I started by collecting questions about my artifact, and writing them down in my OneNote app. These questions were collected by both my classmates and me; during one of the classes, I passed my artifact to all of my classmates and everyone asked a question. I listed the questions and tried to outline my paper based on them. I ended up with a basic layout (plan) of how my paper would look it at the end.
As a second step, I did a small research about reading habits in the American and student cultures, and how it changed with the new E-readers technology. I ended up having some secondary resources for my paper. What is best culture for E-reader? This was a question
…show more content…
I embedded new justification of why reading was/is ignored in my culture. The overall conclusion was recrafted with some more clarification. I learnt from this project that before thinking about a topic and started writing about it, I need to be sure that I have all the essential component in mind. For example, in this project, I should have not chosen the Kindle until I find a culture that situates it. So, this will one of my goals for the next project along with improving the way I express my thoughts to the

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Heather Malosky The cultural artifact that I chose was my lacrosse stick. It represents how lacrosse has been a continuous occupation throughout my life. It is an essential thing needed to play lacrosse. Even though I do not play on a team anymore, I still keep it with me because it holds special value to me.…

    • 691 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    New generations now days prefer to keep the new and leave behind the old, and that is happening with books. Author Motoko Rich, of “Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?,” published on July 27, 2008 in The New York Times, She compares and explains in a convincing way how people are transitioning more with the use of technology, than traditional books. “At least since the invention of television, critics have warned that electronic media would destroy reading. What is different now, since literacy experts say, is that spending time on the web, whether it is looking up something on Google or even brittneyspears.org, entails some engagement with text” Rich said. It then debates with organization patterns to show her comparison and contrast, using several sources to prove every point, examples to support her argument on why online reading is both good and bad.…

    • 744 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My Literacy Autobiography

    • 984 Words
    • 4 Pages

    My Literacy Autobiography I was in the second grade when I first fell in love with reading. Reading was always my escape from the real world. I was never a fan of writing. Writing papers was my biggest fear when I was in grade school. As I got older, the number of books I read began to lessen.…

    • 984 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Classroom Demographics

    • 2185 Words
    • 9 Pages

    In this Action Research paper, I am going to discuss the demographics and break down of my classroom library, and the possible deficits it presents to the students who populate it. This is significant because the more a child is exposed to a rich and dynamic library of books the better he or she has to be fluent in both reading and writing (Tompkins, 2015). It is also essential to to remember that a lack of culturally variegated texts may have an negative impact on children. I will first discuss the context that contains all the breakdown of the district, secondly the individual makeup of what my school looks like and finally represent the individual classroom demographics.…

    • 2185 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My artifact was a small video called “Mama Bear”. The Mama Bear video is from a web site that is called “feedingamericasd.org”. The video is a little more than one minute and we watched some of it with my group. Then I shared with my group what I know about the video and the organization. I have one more artifact that I picked up from the San Diego County office when I went there to social welfare assignment.…

    • 841 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Frederick Douglass knew what it was like to struggle with freedom. His struggles were depicted in his autobiography, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Throughout the story, you watch him struggle to free himself from the mental and physical bondages of slavery. He watched friends and family die and quiver in fear as the white man took control of the free world.…

    • 612 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Seashell Artifact

    • 297 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The artifact that I have chosen for this assignment is a seashell and the grade level this artifact will be used for will be preschool or kindergarten. The seashell is from the Atlantic Ocean. This shell was found at the Jersey Shore, while fishing on a boat. The history behind the seashell is my uncle who owns a big calming business near the Jersey Shore, found this shell. Every year my uncle goes out on a big calming boat and one year he found three conch shells, two for my sisters and one for me.…

    • 297 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I am going to write about my Reading and Me, by Bailey Clutter. Because I agree with him because as kid I was always outside doing something like football, hunting, fishing, and playing with friends. Reading just kind of bored me you could say. I couldn’t sit down and read for 30 minutes. I just like to be active.…

    • 1162 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The assignment for typing my rhetorical analysis paper from my English class was to analysis another paper about a newsletter from intermediate computer class that related to my major called architectural engineering. I am happy about this assignment for being able to analysis my paper in order to think more about the paper from another assignment about a newsletter from intermediate computer class and the newsletter explain the lessons that I learned from intermediate computer class. The important lessons that I learned from Intermediate computer class was about designing and formatting in order to type my paper more professional in order to share my ideas within the member of my communities associated with architectural engineering. The…

    • 268 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I will be looking into the North American culture of the Navajo. The creation story of the Navajo will be the main focus. I was born and raised near the Navajo culture and would like to learn some of their beliefs. The objective is to learn the beliefs of the Navajo about how and why the universe, earth, and man-kind were born.…

    • 176 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    This artifact was created to demonstrate my proficiency in Standard 8. It was finalized in August 2015 and is a document created after participating in the Lincolnshire PLC Conference to share mine and eight other staff members’ experiences and takeaways with the Fund for Teachers organization. Fund for Teachers granted funds for nine staff members to attend the PLC conference to continue learning about developing learning communities. The experiences we shared and the takeaways we brought back to our school to improve our PLCs was something the Funds for Teachers organization found inspiring. The feedback the provided identified how impactful this experiences was in helping our staff come together to support the learning of all students.…

    • 196 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    n this short essay Alexie a Spokane Indian writes about how Superman comics helped him learn how to read. Alexie uses his introduction to introduce how Superman comics helped him read books. Then he uses the conclusion to show how far he has come from reading Superman comics. He uses key details in both conclusion and introduction to describe either how he had improved or to introduce the audience to superman comics. The introduction and conclusion work together to create this feeling of improvement from reading Superman comics.…

    • 156 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    NCOA Reflective Report

    • 952 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Before I came to Kisling Non-Commissioned Officer Academy (NCOA), I thought of myself as a good leader with certain traits and aspects. I believe that if I take care of my airmen, that they’ll take care of me by completing work orders, squadron objectives, or any future events without question. It wasn’t until I attended NCOA, that I was able to put concept names to the leadership traits that I had. For example, I would put aside my self-interest for the good of the work center because I wanted my guys to know that I have their best interest at heart. Which turns out to be part of transformational leader idealized influence.…

    • 952 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Annotated Bibliography Alexie, Sherman. “A Good Story.” The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing. Eds. Rise B. Alexrod, Charles R. Cooper.…

    • 1869 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Practicum Reflection During my education courses I had learned many different concepts, teaching strategies, and covered numerous topics involving the process of teaching. For the first time I was able to put everything I had learned into practice. My practicum was one of the best learning experiences I have experienced as a student. I learn the best when I am doing something hands on, so for me to actually be able to teach and take over the classes I was able to learn a lot.…

    • 1072 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays