1. Becoming a Learner offers a framework and philosophy for the purpose of higher education.
Write a 500 word response to the book. To help you get started, you may consider the following questions: What did you find useful? What experience have you had that relate to the book? In what ways can the ideas in this book help you have a successful freshman year? Also include questions that you have about the ideas in the book? In the concluding paragraph of your response, connect the themes of Becoming a Learner to the overall theme of How We Got to Now.
By reading Becoming a Learner, I was able to connect with the author's personal philosophies and now have a better understanding of how I will be applying Sanders concepts into my college experience. To be able to read the author’s first hand experiences, I found it useful how he applied real, day to day stories in his book. Sanders detailed stories about professors, classmates, etc. made it easy to see how I can take these principles of …show more content…
Johnson tells the story of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. The two put together their brilliant minds and had the outcome of what is known modern day as computer software. As Johnson claims “Babbage’s idea and Lovelace’s footnote proved to be so far ahead of time that, for a long while, they were lost to history.” (250) Babbage and Lovelace’s perception was completely rediscovered in the 1940’s, this is when the first working computer came to be. The footnote created by Babbage and Lovelace is what brought Google, electronic music, iTunes and hypertext into the twenty first century. If the machinery used to run the software code was built during Babbage and Lovelace’s time, the computer would have been around nearly a century before it was actually created. The two innovators were able to think and work so creatively because of their broad knowledge of several
Write a 500 word response to the book. To help you get started, you may consider the following questions: What did you find useful? What experience have you had that relate to the book? In what ways can the ideas in this book help you have a successful freshman year? Also include questions that you have about the ideas in the book? In the concluding paragraph of your response, connect the themes of Becoming a Learner to the overall theme of How We Got to Now.
By reading Becoming a Learner, I was able to connect with the author's personal philosophies and now have a better understanding of how I will be applying Sanders concepts into my college experience. To be able to read the author’s first hand experiences, I found it useful how he applied real, day to day stories in his book. Sanders detailed stories about professors, classmates, etc. made it easy to see how I can take these principles of …show more content…
Johnson tells the story of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. The two put together their brilliant minds and had the outcome of what is known modern day as computer software. As Johnson claims “Babbage’s idea and Lovelace’s footnote proved to be so far ahead of time that, for a long while, they were lost to history.” (250) Babbage and Lovelace’s perception was completely rediscovered in the 1940’s, this is when the first working computer came to be. The footnote created by Babbage and Lovelace is what brought Google, electronic music, iTunes and hypertext into the twenty first century. If the machinery used to run the software code was built during Babbage and Lovelace’s time, the computer would have been around nearly a century before it was actually created. The two innovators were able to think and work so creatively because of their broad knowledge of several