Ulmer’s Questions Heuretics Question: Do you think that if we begin to learn in a way that is heavily influenced by the creative figures in our current day and age? And through this how do you think it would be? I … Continue reading
“Creative Detourment” is the practice that artists use to rearrange and sample a message from an art piece that already has a predetermined message. “Culture Jamming” is the creation of images using well-known images to society to challenge and disrupt … Continue reading
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Creative Detournement is an approach to transform and alter art by distorting them in a creative manner where an underlying message is conveyed. Culture Jamming disrupts media culture by protesting consumer culture with the subversion of consumer media as a … Continue reading
Heuretics: Ulmer states, “When anomalies accumulate to the point of putting the paradigm in question, revolutionary science emerges in original hypotheses formulated by certain creative individuals. Gerald Holton (1973), historian of science, studies such creative figures to understand the ability … Continue reading
Creative Detournement: “Détournement means a ‘detour’ or ‘diversion’ in English. However, in French, the word also means ‘hijacking’, ‘embezzlement’, ‘corruption’ and ‘misappropriation.’ In a broad sense, détournement can be defined as ‘a method of interpretation and reinterpretation: reordering pre-existing materials … Continue reading
Detournement is a method of propaganda, a method which reveals the wearing out and loss of importance of those spheres.” It has been defined elsewhere as “turning expressions of the capitalist system and its media culture against itself”–as when slogans … Continue reading
Hueretics Question: What are the three faculties or virtues within electracy, and can we adapt from these current virtues? Why: Because Ulmer talks about Plato’s three virtues and faculties of literacy. Theopraxesis Question: If we move away from attraction … Continue reading
Creative Detournement: “Involves appropriating familiar images from the mass media or ubiquitous political slogans, and using them in ways that subvert their original message and expose their embedded ideology.” (Bilyeu et al, 2022) (Page, 2016) Culture jamming: “A grass-roots campaigning … Continue reading
“Paleolithic was animistic, regarding everything as alive, using magic to promote survival (life/death). Orality identified divine cause, creating religion and the institution of the church to address right/wrong behavior mandated by God. Literacy identified nature as a cause (Phusis), creating … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Silko “Deep down the issue is simple the so called Indian wars from the days of sitting bull and read cloud have never really ended in the Americas .the Indian people of southern Mexico,of Guatemala and those left in the … Continue reading
Question for Ulmer: Do you think that electracy is the way for future education? “The caveat is that whatever the digital apparatus is becoming, it is not more literacy.” Ulmer mentions a lot of the way that it was sort … Continue reading
Silko: “The great human migration within the Americas cannot be stopped; human beings are natural forces of the Earth, just as rivers and winds are natural forces…The Indian people of southern Mexico, of Guatemala and those left in El Salvador, … Continue reading
Question for Ulmer: Do you believe digital technology will not only affect electracy in education among students, but also deter them away from standardized learning traditions? Ulmer says that “Digital technology is a filter that is going to modify perception … Continue reading
Question for Ulmer: Would you think of electracy as a paradigm shift? Ulmer states, “Socrates is a syncretic figure, partly oral, partly literate, the first person to experience Self.” I am a firm believer in Kuhn’s concept of paradigm shifts. … Continue reading
Ulmer Question: Do you see electracy being significantly instituted into early childhood education? Why: Because technology is too integrated into our lives especially with kids growing up with it soon as they are born. With no drastic changes in elementary … Continue reading
This picture connects to the article because i think of the whole world as an panopticon, where there the world is divided into two groups the watchers and the watched. As to in my picture you can see clearly that … Continue reading
This photo shows two discreet cameras on a building on the corner of Myrtle avenue in Brooklyn. As I was waiting for the bus, I barely noticed the cameras were there because it blended in with the building, both the … Continue reading
Aftermath of Video After my exploratory project, I decided to focus on video because it was something that I personally use everyday. I hope everyone gains some insight to video as I did.
Have you ever logged onto someone else’s Netflix profile and found options you would have never seen on your average Netflix profile? You’ve become so used to the automated possibilities that it becomes odd to see someone else’s “personal” algorithm … Continue reading
The picture is a speeding camera that takes users information and sends it into an information system. The picture is connected to the article because as Greg Elmer explains we live in a prison society that surveils using its power … Continue reading
The Vital “Another experiment, conducted by Pascual-Leone when he was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, provides even more remarkable evidence of the way our patterns of thought affect the anatomy of our brains. Pascual-Leone recruited people … Continue reading
Carr Literally, Carr discusses the evolution of the understanding of the brain. He touches upon research through the ages and how the sentiment of what the brain is and how it is constructed has changed. In the early years of … Continue reading
Nicholas Carr – “…the brain might in fact be in a constant state of flux, adapting to whatever task it’s called on to perform. “There is evidence that the cells of our brains literally develop and grow bigger with use, … Continue reading
“The ‘tele’ is there to indicate that my concern is with how our discourse might be affected by electronic technology, not only in the sense that it might be important to learn how to use video for educational purposes, but … Continue reading
Nicholas Carr Literally With the discovery of neural plasticity, we can now understand how the brain evolves and repurposes neural pathways and gray matter in the brain’s most utilized areas. Like Kuhn’s concept of the Paradigm Shift, neurologists believed that … Continue reading
Nicholas Carr: “Our ways of thinking, perceiving, and acting, we now know, are not entirely determined by our genes. Nor are they entirely determined by our childhood experiences. We change them through the way we live-and, as Nietzsche sensed, through … Continue reading
Sound, language, and technology share a common connection. Each has its unique way of conveying and emitting certain messages. Throughout the post, I will define the ways they are connected. According to the article, “The souls of Black folk”, sound … Continue reading
Sound, technology, and language; the three very important factors that allow education and cultures to be shared and taught throughout multiple societies. Sound allows us to hear music and speech and understand what they mean through their tunes, what the … Continue reading
The relationship between sound, language and technology is that they are the foundations of effective communication. They are the powerful tools that enhance the way we interact with each other and how we understand the world around us. Language is … Continue reading
Without sound, there is no language. Without language, there is no technology. One can popcorn off the other. Yes, there are other methods of communication without the need of sound, but they haven’t had the impact of the spoken word. … Continue reading
Sound, language, and technology share a symbiotic relationship. These concepts work synchronously to hold the power of the message. To support my claim, I want to illustrate the power of the message through the frames of the deep-rooted history of … Continue reading
Sound has always been linked to our upbringing. It helps us physically communicate with each other. Language is another more direct form of clear communication. The last communication I will introduce is technology. By using technology, we can connect with … Continue reading
While writing this paper I have really educated myself in a topic that I use almost on a daily bases. The MTA has always been something that New Yorker’s either hate or love. But do we all know how the … Continue reading
(PAGE 26-27 Article Do Artifacts Have Politics?) What happened: The mechanical harvester was introduced in California. This harvester was a game-changer in the agricultural world.”This machine can harvest tomatoes in a single pass through a row, cutting the plants … Continue reading
Tech Exploratory project This project was very interesting and fascinating. I enjoyed every bit of it from researching to editing. I hope to receive feedback from my peers and professors to improve my writing for the final project.
Exploratory Paper When I started I had a problem with what technology to talk about. But in the end I decided to pick the light bulb, smartphone, and a 3d printer. I had a problem with what unforeseen consequence would … Continue reading
starting the paper was had for me simply because, I didn’t know what technology to use but when i actually did figure out what technology to use i then had to try and fine articles and videos and pictures but … Continue reading
What Happened: When the highways and bridges were created, it was built to keep public transit buses out because of the height restrictions of the overpasses. Political Intention: It was used to limit access of racial minorities and low income … Continue reading
In this reflection of this paper, there were some difficulties in learning about the consequences pros and cons, but after getting the writing flow going I was able to hopefully write the assignment as best I could. I am more … Continue reading
This exploratory project was challenging and time consuming when I started. I couldn’t decide what was an important technology to me. I decided to pick video because that’s what I want to do in the future. For the other 2 … Continue reading
I enjoyed working on this project much more than I expected. There were times when I struggled to articulate my ideas and thoughts, but I think I was able to manage them in the end. I look forward to expanding … Continue reading
During the whole process of writing this Exploratory, I did have trouble in some areas of my writing. For example, starting the whole piece took me a bit of time and planning. I chose to write my piece on the … Continue reading
In the process of writing this paper, I was able to get a clearer picture of how these technologies changed life. As I did my research, I did have difficulty accessing certain databases, this part of the paper I struggled … Continue reading
Readers should expect to go on a journey through my life and understand how language and technology affected me throughout my lifetime. During the writing of this essay, I struggled with the direction I wanted to take with how language … Continue reading
The three articles have a similar message and content. For instance, the authors of all three articles emphasized the importance of orality and how it has impacted us throughout history. All authors portray a message that knowledge is manipulated in … Continue reading
The readings from Trask, Gee, and Rath all connect from the concept of orality: communication that’s spoken or verbal; through different cultures and their languages. From Trask’s “From a Native Daughter,” she expresses a sense of confusion or rather a … Continue reading
Growing Up with Technology I really had to think hard about what my first memories with technology was. As you get older, your memories begin to fade little by little and they become somewhat ambiguous. Technology is a part of … Continue reading
The three passages of Rath, Trask, and Gee speak of the importance of learning orality and the importance of learning orality to understand the history of the people or the culture a historian is trying to understand. When reading, Trask … Continue reading
A famous phrase all through out the world, “History is written by the victors.” All throughout history and even modern times we can see the validity in this quote. We can see it the native tribes losing their power and … Continue reading
Through the process of writing this essay I have compared the ways that Ive identified my connections orality, literacy, and technology. Ive learned to identify how I use these concepts every day and how they connect with each other. … Continue reading
From these readings I got that they all connected to culture, and how our culture shape the person that we become, and as we develop a scene of self. Haunani-Kay Trask became a part of the culture there because of … Continue reading
A story of how reading comes in many forms, and how modern technology can assist in further developing someone’s ability through interest. Read about how Nabin, a child who hated reading and writing grew an interest in it through the … Continue reading
Trask, Rath, and Gee’s articles both connect to orality. — a form of communication and language often associated with the “primitive.” Trask’s article depicts the lost history of Native Hawaiians, which was lost in context after being falsely rewritten by … Continue reading
A love-hate letter to writing and the modern technologies and languages we use today. Leapfrog, a 5-year-old Diana’s best friend. Modern technology shaped the way that Diana learned to read and write, but will Diana stick to the modern world … Continue reading
Though this assignment was a bit of a challenging I got around it pretty well. After being stuck and clueless about where to start for a bit I just started answering the questions though that wasn’t the hardest part for … Continue reading
I sat in front of the screen of my laptop, staring at the blank, white page of Microsoft word. Where do I start? I was stumped. I had no idea where to start. I took my favorite pen and favorite … Continue reading
Culture influences the way we identify ourselves and the way we interact with the world around us. This can be said for the Hawaiians as their culture includes orality and years of experience on the land passed on by generation … Continue reading
I enjoyed writing this paper because this allowed me to really delve into my past and recognize how I learned literacy, as well as how I witnessed the advancement of technology in my life. I relied on my mother to … Continue reading
Knowledge is history and if you don’t have any evidence to back up your argument, you don’t have a voice. Trask, Rath and Gee show us that knowledge can be manipulated. As a society grows it takes shape by the … Continue reading
I took a long time writing about my early childhood struggle but it was still clear in my head. I was searching for what to do in life with so many obstacles in my way. To reach the best of … Continue reading
The author literally says that many activities wouldn’t exist without electric light. For instance, brain surgery, factories, electrical devices, etc. Intellectually one innovation led to another, for example, the invention of the telephone. Currently, we can access the world through … Continue reading
McLuhan: “In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: ‘We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. … Continue reading
Electric speed mingles the cultures of prehistory with the dregs of industrial marketeers, the nonliterate with the semi-literate and the postliterate. Mental breakdown of varying degrees is the very common result of uprooting and inundation with new information and endless … Continue reading
The Medium is the Message “Today when we want to get our bearings of our own culture, and have need to stand aside from the bias and pressure exerted by any technical form of human expression, we have only to … Continue reading
My Journey to Technology- Tech Lit Narrative Writing this was really reflective as I had to dig deep into my memories about what technology was and how I was introduced to it. Since the introduction of technology, it has really … Continue reading
Literally: McLuhan’s, The Message is the Medium explains to the reader that the Medium influences how a message is perceived. McLuhan talks about the rise of technology through history and tells the reader that although automation has eliminated jobs., it … Continue reading
” The American stake in literacy as a technology or uniformity applied to every level of education, government, industry, and social life is totally threatened by the electric technology.” Literally: This quote from ” The Medium is the Message,” by … Continue reading
“The American stake in literacy as a technology or uniformity applied to every level of education, government, industry, and social life is totally threatened by the electric technology. The threat of Stalin or Hitler was external. The electric technology is … Continue reading
GEE: “The discourse practices associated with our schools represent the world view of mainstream and powerful institutions in our society; these discourse practices and their concomitant world view are necessary for social and economic success in our society. But they … Continue reading
GEE: “The discourse practices associated with our schools represent the world view of mainstream and powerful institutions in our society; these discourse practices and their concomitant world view are necessary for social and economic success in our society. But they … Continue reading
In Gee passage he states”An unacceptable large number of children, a disproportionate number of whom are from low- income and minority homes, fail to gian functional literacy in schools;and functionally illiterate or only marginally literate.” What I think that … Continue reading
James Paul Gee: The quote I am choosing is: “But one major factor keeps literacy, apart from any cultural context, in focus: the claim that literacy leads to higher order cognitive skills.” It basically means that literacy can affect the … Continue reading
Gee: “Olson’s (1977) claims for the cognitive effects of literacy-that, for example, it “unambiguously represents meanings” (p. 264)-refer only to one type of literacy, the essay-text form of writing prevalent in Western culture and supported by our schools. In fact, … Continue reading
Gee “But a contrary current has developed, a current which sees literacy as necessarily plural: Different societies and social subgroups have different types of literacy, and literacy has different social and mental effects in different social and cultural contexts. … Continue reading
Gee: The discourse practices associated with our schools represent the world view of mainstream and powerful institutions in our society; necessary for social and economic success in our society. When Gee wrote this I think he’s saying that whatever a … Continue reading
James Paul Gee, Orality and Literacy: From The Savage Mind to Ways With Words is an overview of orality. Gee mentions different dichotomies in his article, such as primitive vs. modern. A passage that particularly piqued my interest in this … Continue reading
Sandy- In the article “Orality and Literacy: From The Savage Mind to Ways with Words,” written by James Paul Gee the quote that I chose was ” while oral cultures produce powerful verbal performances which may in fact no longer … Continue reading
My name is Aaron Nieves and I was born and raised in NYC. I am Puerto Rican and Cuban. I am currently a Professional and Technical Writing major here at City Tech. At the moment, I currently work as a … Continue reading
Khaled Akam Society is given at two faces of a whole, showing as at view point that writers are important to our upbringings but the second is hiding the construction of thought one could give in literacy. James Paul Gee … Continue reading
Hello, my name is Naila. I was born and raised in the United States. However, my ethnicity is half Guyanese and half Pakistani. I have lived in Queens, NY, for most of my life, but my family moved to Virginia … Continue reading
Hello, My name is Elija Ruhith. I am 22 years old, currently I am studying Human Services at City Tech. This is my last semester so I am looking forward to graduate and get myself into a better stable place. … Continue reading
Hi my name is Stephanie Jacob and I am a junior here at City Tech. My major is in Healthcare Policy & Management. I was born and raised in New York, I have lived here my whole life. I live … Continue reading
Hi, my name is Alexa. I was born and raised in Brooklyn but my family is from Mexico, we usually go and visit every year. I am bilingual I speak both English and Spanish. I am a full time student … Continue reading
1. My name is Khaled Akam and my parents were born and migrated from Yemen at an early age. I was born and raised in Brooklyn and went to school in the area up until college, which was at Hunter … Continue reading
i. My name is Khemraj Jeremy Persaud. I was born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Laurelton, which is in southeast Queens. I currently live in Kew Gardens, also in Queens. I went to Brooklyn Technical High School, … Continue reading
hello, my name is Simmone Jeremiah. i was born on an caribbean island called Grenada, there i went to school until the six grade.I came to the united states at the age at 11 or 12. At the time i … Continue reading
Hello! My name is Diana. I was born and raised in Spanish Harlem, I’ve lived in the same building and the same apartment my whole life. Needless to say, I don’t work well with change. I am Puerto Rican and … Continue reading
1. Hi everyone! My name is Melody Garcia. I am 22 years old and I am an Aquarius. I have three siblings and I am Puerto Rican. During these past few months I’ve been trying to really understand what I … Continue reading
My name is Sandy Fougeres. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. My parents are from Haiti and so I understand Haitian Creole and have visited Haiti however I am not fluent in speaking it. I have a two … Continue reading
Hello my name is Nabin Tiwari. I was born in Nepal, but then i migrated to America when I was 1 and then I Kept going to Nepal and coming to America over and over again until I was 5. … Continue reading
Hello my name is Tiana and I am excited to join this course. I was born and raised here in New York, but I’ve lived in two out of the five boroughs but I currently live in Brooklyn. One of … Continue reading
Everyone have a great Summer. ReflectionPaper- Final
Dear Professor Leston Its been great taking your class, thank you for your patience with me. See you around in the major. Have a great summer
I am so grateful to have taken this course with all of you. It has been very enlightening and fun and I am a bit saddened to have to let it go. I hope you to see you guys in … Continue reading
We’re at the end of the semester FINALLY!!!!!. Of course I’m joking but I hope everyone learned something this semester, and hope to see everyone again next semester. Have a great summer. finalletter Simone H
ReflectivePaperENG1710 (Abigale) This paper signifies the end of the semester for all of us. I hope you all walked away with an abundant amount of information and knowledge. I definitely did. Thanks for the support and the enlightenment this semester. … Continue reading
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