Blog 3, Sept 7-9



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 We have been talking a lot about if and how technology changes the way that you think and write. It has been interesting to think that just the piece of technology that you use to get your point across changes how you may convey your point. I can actually understand that, because for example before I start to actually write a long paper, and by write I mean type, I need to put all my thoughts and information on paper, even sources and information that I find on the Internet. I don't think I could skip this step and write the same kind of paper, even if I organized my thoughts on a word document first. For some reason it is really hard for me to concentrate on the computer screen, for example the class readings, I need to print them out. I have tried to read the articles on the computer screen, because its actually a better idea, I can save trees, ink and money, but I just cant concentrate, my mind tends to jump around alot. In one of our articles we had even talked about how we surf the web, and we are use to just reading parts of information then going to the next web page, and I think it has trained my mind to jump every time I look at a computer screen. Technology is changing to make things like reading on a computer screen alot easier, for example the ebooks or the ipad. And as we start figuring out what we don't like about those, and they fix that we will eventually have something that will replace the book permanently.