Skimming

One new thing I learned after the scavenger hunt activity was where to find the student catalog in both Moodle and Student Portal. Previously, I thought the student catalog was only available on Moodle. It was a great activity and it reactivated my skimming and scanning reading technique. The role of higher education institutions in today’s world is to identify and recognize the changes taking place in the world around us. Higher education…

feel of the structure and layout before reading the body of the article. Rosenberg suggests to read the titles and to look for the abstract in the introduction. After discovering they layout, and main argument, she recommends to start reading, while skimming over less-needed text. Finally, Rosenberg emphasized the importance of the conclusion, and how it’s unwise to skip over as it can be used as…

forlorn and depressing sky hangs above their young minds, sweeping them away into summer. Although the clouds say otherwise, the teenagers orbit the town of South St. Paul, throwing mud to others in the river and digging up asphalt as they ride, skimming across the streets in inhuman speed. The rain fastly approaches the vulnerable children as they watch the first drops shudder on the ground, shaking from the merciless wind that sweeps the trees and hats off of teens. The school rings the bell…

Nicholas G. Carr was born in 1959, and is the author of, 2011 General Non-fiction Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brain’s. He is also the author of the highly debated article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” published in July of 2008. This article is about how he noticed that he had a shorter attention span and could not focus on long pieces of writing. He describes the neurological consequences of the internet, and how it is shaping how we read. When we…

Do you have a computer or a self-phone? Technology is all around us in this world today. It is very common to have a phone or a computer of any kind or to even have both. People think only about the good things about technology but not about the bad things that are harmful to the consumers. Technology is very harmful to people because it rewires our brains and disconnects us from the world. Technology has rewired our brain over the years and dumbed us down that we have short attention spans. In…

During the Winter Quarter of 2018, I enrolled in CHEM1A at De Anza Community College to deepen my understanding of chemistry. Going into the class, I expected it to be similar to a high school class. However, I quickly discovered that it was quite different--it was literally and figuratively in a class of its own. There were a lot more advanced concepts taught in my CHEM1A course. At first, I was at a loss on how to study and adequately prepare for the class, given the volume of material and…

Technology: Changing the Way Things are Done Hopefully no one can deny that technology and the internet are becoming a big part in people’s lives. Even if you don’t use them as much as other people I’m sure you still notice that it has changed how you do some tasks. Whether it be using social media or using the internet for research or business, technology probably shows up more in your day than it did a few years ago. Technology and the internet are not just changing one thing or a few things,…

emotion.” (Carr 211) The overuse of mind-altering technology is extremely capable of diminishing the natural capacities a human contains. People are no longer guided toward deep, personally understanding. Instead they are pushed more towards quickly skimming over articles without taking the information deeply into understanding. They are hurried off toward pieces of information and another, and so on. “The breadth of its influence and activity is often interpreted as evidence that is an…

While writing these past journals and essays, I feel in many ways I connected with part of the message of Carr's Googley-Technology essay. Carr wrote about the loss of deep reading skills, and the trend of skimming. Carr provided examples of the effects it had on some individuals. When I first read Carr's essay, I felt it was hard to follow, all over the road, long, somewhat tedious. Now, I had to write discussion entries, journals, and work on my essays, most of which were reflective of…

government would stay out of the affairs of business, those who were most “fit” would succeed and become rich” (239). The idea was brilliant in its cunning simplicity: it successfully won many Americans to the side of laissez-faire while simultaneously skimming over the real-life complexities of the economic ladder. But just as Carnegie’s philanthropy won over the hearts of the American people, Social Darwinism won their…