Dean
DeGroot
Eng.
102
Laura
Cline
5
May 2012
Technology!
What can I say that has not already
been said? Online learning is not as
enjoyable to me as classroom based learning. I enjoy human contact and real
interaction. In the classroom when there is a debate that I don’t partake in
verbally, I can still benefit by listening. The benefits to online learning for
me are; flexibility, and the ability to pause and/or rewind the instructor’s
online lectures.
My children, who are now 19 and 22,
came home from kindergarten with photocopies of computer keyboards. They have
grown up with a technology that I rejected until two years ago. I cannot begin to
explain how much I have learned to a younger generation that has grown up
utilizing it. The more I learn about technology the more I realize I don’t
know. The trick that I learned this semester that I utilize now on a regular
basis is hyperlinking. Hyperlinking is
so easy, but until this semester I had never been exposed to it and didn’t know
it existed.
English, for me has always been a
difficult subject. I cannot say that my English 101 class was any easier
because it was classroom based. My good ole boy concept of English class has
always been; proper punctuation and sentence structure. Although those are
important my concepts have changed and I continue to relish in the challenges
of being a non-traditional student.
“Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow” (Ronald E. Osborn) http://www.iwise.com/Ronald_E_Osborn
