We began presentations this week in Dissecting the Internet! It really felt very sudden for me. Even though we had been assigned the books at the very beginning of the semester, it seemed then that it was such a far ways away, and then suddenly the due date was upon us. The semester really is flying by. . .
Well, I definitely enjoyed listening to the presentations and discussions groups gave on their books. This week we heard from the students that read The Dumbest Generation, The Overflowing Brain, Distracted, and Against the Machine. Many of these books seemed to have expressed similar views on the internet's negative effects on our generation; however, students seemed to be annoyed that their books did not offer any solutions to these consequences. I know that is they way my group felt after reading Distracted. Our author rambled on and on about information that, although somewhat interesting, often had nothing to do with her point, and in the end, she gave no cure for "the dark age" our generation is headed toward due to new technologies.
Despite the similar topics and viewpoints discussed in all of the books, I thought each group did a good job at presenting their book in a unique way. For instance, I enjoyed the presentation of Against the Machine, where the groups first asked their classmates what they each thought the best and worst thing about the internet was.
This week starts another round of book presentations, which I am looking forward to listening to and discussing. We will also have a guest speaker! Yes!
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