The experience of a fictional technophile student in 2020
Callum's day starts off by him turning on his laptop and checking his Facebook and messages, while at the same time looking on his Blackberry to check his daily emails. He's got very good at multi-tasking these past few years! He sees that he's been invited to a party group via Facebook so checks his PDA to check if he's free on the calender. He is, so clicks confirm on the party invitation. After his social tasks are done he then gets ready for his virtual seminar that is about to start.
Once Callum's webcam is set up he joins the rest of his classmates on the virtual seminar. On the same screen he can see the other 6 students and his tutor who are all discussing the topic on whether or not to eradicate classrooms all together as online teaching is the main method these days. Once the seminar is technically over his stays online and chats to his classmates a bit longer before signing off the university portal and signing onto Skype to chat to his friend Mike in Australia. After making numerous jokes that Mike's new beard makes him look gay he signs off Skype and turns off his web cam so he can do some work.
Callum downloads this weeks lecture off the uni podcast and listens to it on his IPod while playing World of Warcraft with 200 other people online. After the podcast has finished he makes notes on the topic discussed and gets ready to go out for another party he got invited to on Facebook last week!
4 comments:
I think its amazing how now and in the future we are becoming so reliant on technology. What happend if this technology breaks down and fails what would we do then? i also think that the advantages in technology are making us kind of lazy. For instance not even having to move out the house to even got to a lecture. I don't think i would like learning this way all the time as i like to get out the house and see my friends and communicate with people face to face. What are anybody else's thoughts? do they agree with me?
Yes i totally agree. Imagine being stuck in the house day upon day. You could go days without seeing anyone at all!It would also be much harder for someone to come to terms with technology if it broke down, especialyy if they had become so used to it, its hard to go back. Plus what would happen if technology failed us and we didnt meet deadlines.......disaster!!!
yeh, our reliance and complete trust in technology also scares me.
I think everyone is getting more lazy, you can do everythin over the internet - do the shopping, etc.
Also, I think it's interesting the new Fitness add on for the Nintendo Wii, the fact they are saying we can get fit by a video game instead of the gym.
Lauren,
This is an entertaining account of a technophile in terms of technological advances.
Even though this is creative writing, and the blog is a more informal way of working, I'd be cautious of using terms such as 'gay' negatively...I know students tend to do this, but it's potentially quite an offensive way of using the term....it's implying it's 'bad'.
All the best
Emma
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