Throughout, history you can see different methods of communicating dating back to the cave man era. Though, there are many different ways communication has been done from the beginning of time, it’s no secret that language is the primary code humans use to communicate. “Although there is no specific date that we can pinpoint as to when language was first "discovered," we can estimate that our ancestors have been verbally communicating for approximately a million years.”(Bevan & Sole, 2014) How much time in a single day do you communicate with your phone, computer, or both? Why does this matter? This is a question I never thought to ask myself but throughout this assignment I have come to the realization that I don’t use my cellular device
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The anti-technology movements that oppose economic growth through technology might ask, why should we pay special attention to our CMC? First, I would explain to them that everyone has to except that the continued development of information and communication technologies has virtualized the way we learn forever. Example, teachers and instructors around the world are using various forms of multimedia and web-based systems to deliver and teach content to students without being in there presents. These few technologies alone has allowed students and educators to receive and deliver information virtually from anywhere in the world, using a cellular device to do so. Although, there are probably more cons than pros to learning on-line versus learning in a traditional classroom setting, the option is still there for students to make, depending on their living conditions. This year alone I have spent more time on skype communicating with my wife and kids. My interactions included the use of nonverbal communication at times when I only wanted to watch my family instead of talk to them. I already know how the conversation would go, nothing has changed for me and I really don’t want to speak about my deployment life because my family might began to worry. Due to this fact, I spend most of my time on skype watching them and listening to them tell me about their day. Although, I couldn’t imagine a world where you spend most of your time communicating nonverbal, unfortunately this year I
The anti-technology movements that oppose economic growth through technology might ask, why should we pay special attention to our CMC? First, I would explain to them that everyone has to except that the continued development of information and communication technologies has virtualized the way we learn forever. Example, teachers and instructors around the world are using various forms of multimedia and web-based systems to deliver and teach content to students without being in there presents. These few technologies alone has allowed students and educators to receive and deliver information virtually from anywhere in the world, using a cellular device to do so. Although, there are probably more cons than pros to learning on-line versus learning in a traditional classroom setting, the option is still there for students to make, depending on their living conditions. This year alone I have spent more time on skype communicating with my wife and kids. My interactions included the use of nonverbal communication at times when I only wanted to watch my family instead of talk to them. I already know how the conversation would go, nothing has changed for me and I really don’t want to speak about my deployment life because my family might began to worry. Due to this fact, I spend most of my time on skype watching them and listening to them tell me about their day. Although, I couldn’t imagine a world where you spend most of your time communicating nonverbal, unfortunately this year I