by : Nakesha Willis
People often think
learning academically comes primarily from being in school when, truth is learning
takes place in every aspect of life. With everything comes a reason or purpose.
As stated in this passage, it is up to you to decide which lessons you gain or
wish to gain from everyday activities and/or goals. You could simply figure up
what you would like to learn more about, make a curriculum for yourself, make
practices as close to real life routines as possible, find things you enjoy
engaging in, and find people to assist you in your efforts.
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This passage was a
story being told by Eric Meltzer. Eric had a particular goal to learn an
alternative language. Eric had trouble locating academies/educational
institutions that would fulfill that accomplishment to his personal standards.
He later came to the conclusion that he would figure out how he would achieve
that by himself. Eric figured that he could basically lay out a plan that would
be somewhat like a normal academy. Here are the details to those plans of
action.
Eric decided to create
a curriculum, breaking down information that had to be learned. He then
realized that our generation is said to be disconnected. By that, it means,
being raised on video games, networking, and television. Those forms of
technology are helping us so much that it hurts us at times. In the book Net Smart by Howard Rheingold, Rheingold
spoke about the fact that if you’re out of touch with technology, you’re
basically out of touch with the world.
Technology has become a
way for people to navigate information and find almost anything they search
for. They can almost travel the world online. People often operate based on the
things on television and video games as well.
I think technology is
awesome but when people don’t search further for information they wish to
acquire, they believe solely what they hear from the mouths of other and the
sources they come from.
