When I annotated Ellen Kennerly I mostly had questions about the laws because it was the beginning of the text and she explained and elaborated more after the first few pages. For the two TED talks from Jennifer Goldbeck and Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad, I made notes about what topics they were discussing. I mostly highlighted parts of the texts that interested me and that I maybe wanted to write about. The annotations helped keep my thoughts organized about each text and it helped me find good quotes to put into my essay.
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I struggled with the chunking method at first because I was having a hard time figuring out what the main claims were and how the evidence followed. After reading for a little bit the claims became clearer because it was what I was focusing most of my attention on. Soon it because way easier and the claims would pop out and the evidence clearly followed. I don’t usually think about claims and evidence when I am just reading a piece of writing but it helped me understand what Greenfield was saying and her reasoning behind it. The pros were understanding the piece deeper and learning more about the structure of writing and the cons were how it look me a little while to get used to this way of annotating (that is to be expected though). Overall I think I ended up liking this way of annotating the most, which surprised me a lot because I really struggled at first.
These quotes from Boyd address how adults view social media, how identities can change on social media, and how teens today use social media.
“Unfortunately, adults sometimes believe that they understand what they see online without considering how teens imagined the context when they originally posted a particular photograph or comment. The ability to understand how context, audience, and identity intersect is one of the central challenges people face in learning how to navigate social media.” (page 30)
“Although Turkle recognized that a person’s identity was always tethered to his or her psyche, she left room for arguments that suggested that the internet could- and would- free people of the burdens of their “material” -or physically embodied- identities, enabling them to become a better version of themselves.” (page 37)
“Many teens today go online to socialize with friends they know from physical settings and to portray themselves in online contexts that are more tightly wedded to unmediated social communities.” (page 38)
The annotation method that we were focusing on for this chapter was to look for certain things while reading to give specific annotations. We were asked to make text to self and text to text annotations for the first part of the chapter. For the second part of the chapter we were asked to still make those text to self and text to text annotations but add in some annotations about summary and quotes and also labeling the three learning styles of deep, surface, and strategic. I also color coded to help keep my thoughts organized. The blue sticky notes is me connecting the text to other texts, the pink sticky notes are text to self notes, and the green is just a thought that I had while reading.
I personally did not really like this annotating method because it took me away from really focusing on the words Bain wrote. I was so busy thinking about ways I could relate each sentence to the things I had to relate it to that I lost a little of my focus on what Bain was trying to say as a whole. I think it was just too many things to focus on for me. I like free annotating where it is just me and the chapter with no guidelines for my annotations because then I can come up with some good annotations without getting too distracted by it.
“The Editor” is a podcast that truly captures the attention of the listener because it is full of action and a fascinating story about a man who went to prison for warehouse breaking and entering. The man’s name is Robin Woods and the crime that sent him to prison was committed in 1988 in Cumberland Maryland. He was sent to Maryland Correctional Institute after someone turned him in. It was his second time in this prison which he said was one of the worst prisons that he had been too.
The inmates were unhappy with how they were being treated and caused a riot that Robin assisted in. The inmates were beaten because of this and more time was added onto Robin’s sentence. Since Robin was going to be there for so long he decided he would take out a book from the prison library to read. The issue was Robin never finished high school and could barely read forty percent of each page. He soon became dedicated to reading and looked up words he didn’t know in dictionaries.
After a while of teaching himself how to read he became the go to with the inmates if they needed help reading legal documents. His time soon was devoted to reading an encyclopedia that he got and one day he found an error in an entry. He sent a letter to Mark Stevens the editor of Merriam Webster’s encyclopedias and got a positive response back. Soon Robin and Mark emailed frequently with mistakes Robin found in the encyclopedias.
Eventually Robin was going to be moved to a new prison, but they wouldn’t allow him to bring his collection of books with him. He went on a hunger strike and lost a lot of weight. He told this to Mark and Mark sent a letter to the prison telling them how cruel this was to Robin and how helpful Mark had been with the encyclopedias. The prison guard was surprised by this information and told Robin that if he did not get in trouble for a year he would be released four years early and they restored his book collection.
After Robin got out of prison he and Mark stayed in touch and Mark assisted him with living costs. Robin and Mark finally met and during this Robin’s house was broken into and stolen from. This made Robin feel like it was life showing him what it felt like to be stolen from.
I have listened to a few podcasts in my life for classes, but the difference about “The Editor” is that I actively took notes throughout it. I had never used this strategy when listening and it helped me stay more focused. I often have trouble just listening to things because I am a visual learner but writing notes down and being able to look at those helped me with being able to focus on what was happening and retain the information more.
The first picture is of me studying in the library. The library is nice because the printers are right there and there are books there if you need them too. The library is a little too quiet for me though because I do like a little background noise when I am studying.
I have studied in the commons quite often as well. It is my favorite place to study because I like studying with a little bit of noise. People are talking a little bit and walking by and it is just the right amount of noise for me. I don’t get distracted here and I stay really focused. I also like the commons because there is food nearby.
French novelist Emilie Zola looks perplexed as he is writing at his desk and I feel like I always have a similar face to this when I am doing my homework.
Author Roald Dahl sits in his writing chair and has a blanket over his legs while he writes. I love to be comfy and often am wrapped in blankets while I do my homework.
Ray Bradbury has such a cluttered desk and I would never be able to do work in such a messy place. I like to have an organized desk and have everything in a place where I can reach it if needed.
Agatha Christie has an organized desk with not much on it and I feel like that is mostly what my desk also looks like. But I don’t have a typewriter though.
While I annoted the piece I highlighted things that I thought were really important and smart. I underlined things that most resonated with me and with my life. Some comments that I left were about how my way of thinking in school was mostly the fixed mindset because that is how I was taught in school and I really did not know what a growth mindset was until high school. I also made a note that cheating happened a lot in my high school to get an A instead of just studying more. I often thought about the benefit of an A instead of the benefit of learning. I thought As are good to get into college and did not think about the knowledge that I would need for college. Another note that I made was that nobody says “I really learned that topic,” but people often say “I got an A on that.” I also thought it was really awesome the good results that schools were getting with the not yet grading system.
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