Brave New Classrooms Analysis

In order to unravel college students’ desperation of choosing whether they should enroll in an online course, Content Marketing Specialist of Collegis Education, Kristina Ericksen, has devoted experience from taking online courses to produce and provide a solution for any student. Her written article for Rasmussen College, “What I Wish Someone Told Me BEFORE Taking Online Classes,” exploits the hidden challenges and the usual shortcomings that bears in the name of online learning, such as there are certain learning styles that are not meant for staring at a computer screen, so according to Ericksen, “an advantage to one student may be a disadvantage to another.” While learning styles is only one of her subtopics in the article,

There are many different ways to obtain a college degree, whether it is attending class in a classroom or taking online courses. Online learning is the more popular way nowadays because it is more convenient and more flexible, however, there are stipulations to taking online classes. In the "Read-Only Participants: A Case for Student Communication in Online Classes” article, it breaks down the ins and outs of online learning and how it can be beneficial to the students, the advantages and disadvantages, and how you can be a successful student by participating and not just being a “read-only” student.

The education system in Brave New World as dreary and cruel as it seems is not far from the education system of our society. Creativity is not really promoted any longer in our society, which is comparable to Brave New World. The strict educational system and heavy gauntlet on creativity is a present day example of conditioning. The Brave New World uses conditioning to train the children of their society into learning specific subjects or forcibly generating a hatred for certain subjects or objects. Both systems condition children to know only what the administrators feel is suited. It is really quite scary to believe that the entire society is potentially being denied important

Smith fails to cite an outside source or use any statistic to back up what he’s saying. On the other hand, his writing fails to account for his audience, the University of Nebraska—Lincoln Students that are reading The Daily Nebraskan should have a basic understanding of all the things that he mentions: Blackboard; EBSCO; MyRED; but instead Smith builds his argument upon information that is more distracting than helpful (4). Smith introduces his audience to the benefits of online coursework and resources at the beginning of his argument, builds upon what some of these resources are, before finally moving on to explaining how online classes encourage irresponsibility.

Dabbagh, N. (2007). The online learner: characteristics and pedagogical implications. Contemporary Issuesin Technology and Teacher Education, 7, 3, 217–226.

It also can help teach teachers with how they can quiz their students to see what the students are lacking. This analysis is still striving for parents and teachers to be aware that a main factor with kids being lazy and not caring is due to all the new technologies. The writer does a great job emphasizing the important factors that can finally rise and change the slacking students. I do think that this article is kind of boring in ways because it falls off into a story. I think that the article is almost like a small lesson with all the examples it gives. The writer is using ethos by stating that he is a college writing instructor. The teacher is getting rejected from others while she is trying to solve the student’s problems. It also uses pathos when the writer talks about the kids struggling of wanting to give up. In a reader’s opinion, I believe that this article varies in its range of effectiveness. New Dorp or any students should read this because you might notice what are struggling with by just reading all the examples. This article is also pretty easy to understand. I also believe that this article is great because of how the writer explains just about everything he talks about therefore it can help some students understand exactly what he is talking about. This article strives in a way to let students know how simple it really is to understand the basic concrete elements in writing. The writer catches the writer’s attention

Technology is a part of everyday life and being integrated into more and more fields every day. Computers and the Internet are used in every aspect of our daily lives. With that being said online learning has become more and more prevalent. Most colleges and university have an online learning presence in order to extend the university reach and to help better serve the students who can’t make it into a physical classroom. In this article, Read Only Participants: Communication in online classes, authors Nagel, Blignaut, and Cronj (2009) takes on the argument that participation is a key reason for a student to be successful in the class.

I agree with how Valerle Struss the way she explains how students are supposed to be taught Writing in college. In this day in age, many student struggles with ability to know how to even write a simple sentence. The main reason students in college are not able to do this simple task is because as technology advances more and more people rely on it. This is sometimes a good thing, but not always. People have learned to rely on the technologies they have around them. Which at the end of the day won’t do them any good? So, let’s take the advice of Mrs.Struss and the way she thinks how college students should actually be taught.

In Huxley’s Brave New World, the education system is used to control the population and make people do what they are supposed to do from the beginning. “People believe in God because they are conditioned to believe in God.” (Huxley) They know this, so they condition people in to believe their caste system is great. They create caste systems from when they are born and treat everyone from the same caste the same, education wise and in conditioning. Each caste has a completely different educational system because they are completely different. This makes it so you learn what you need to know and nothing else. You won’t want to learn anymore, and you wouldn’t explore options since they put you where you need to be from the start.

“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls” -Martin Luther King Jr (“Quotes about Racism”). In the Darkroom: a memoir in black and white, Lila Quintero Weaver and her family “immigrated from Buenos Aires to Marion, Alabama,in 1961, to a part of the fertile “black belt” region of the state, known for its slave-holding cotton plantation legacy” (Rosenburg). Lila wrote The Darkroom as an adult reminiscing about how the events of the Civil Rights era in America influenced her adult years. Lila portrayed evidences of racism throughout The Darkroom by making the cover page and the pictures used throughout the story in black and white; the complex issues between blacks and whites

In today’s society, so many people are continuing their education beyond high school. We realize that in order to make a decent living, a degree is most likely a requirement. In some cases even a bachelor’s degree is not enough to qualify for many positions. Nevertheless, thanks to technology, we now have the option to learn online or in a traditional classroom setting. There are very few differences between the two, and students need to understand that as much time and energy will need to be devoted to the online courses as on a campus. “A 2010 meta-analysis and review of online-learning studies concluded that online learning was as good as or slightly more effective than traditional face-to-face instruction” (Mendenhall, 2011).

However, advocates of classroom learning believe the online method isolates the students from one another as well as their professor minimizing the overall value of taking the course. They also claim that students learn better when working together with their instructor and their fellow classmates. Students learn better when they are given the opportunity to ask questions, join in class discussions, and they move the process of learning forward through their participation. Face-to-face advocates firmly believe that this kind of interaction is not possible over the Internet; and for many types of education, e-learning will never meet the potential of live human interaction in the classroom. An article in the New York Times titled, “Second Thoughts on Online Education,” backs up the points made above. A recent research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, comes to the conclusion; “A rush to online education

Technology is changing every aspect in our lives, even the way we learn. Online classes are a rapidly growing trend it today’s society. Online classes are a cost-effective substitute for traditional courses and more convenient for many, so more schools and universities are offering this option. Due to the increase in online course enrollment, people are questioning if students truly learn something from online classes because it’s not a traditional learning environment. Online classes are just, if not more, effective as traditional classes because grades have increased and online discussions provide students with the chance to interact through networking while earning a degree for less than what it would cost to enroll at the same university.

Education has undergone significant changes because of the development of information and communication technology over the 21st century (Lin & Jou, 2012:2). As a convenient and inexpensive way to gain knowledge while pursuing higher education, online learning, a form of training or teaching that takes place over the Internet, has been considered as an alternative to traditional classroom learning (Zhang et al, 2004). This essay will argue that even though online learning has benefit such as flexibility which could outweigh traditional learning, traditional classroom learning might still not be entirely replaced. This essay will discuss positive and negative aspects of online and traditional learning in terms of four criteria:

Andrew Simoncelli once said, “Students who take online classes must be motivated, independent learners.” This is relevant because independence and motivation is what it takes to succeed in an online course. Online learning will not only expand what students learn, but will also bring a number of positive changes in the way students are taught. Courses online have changed everyone’s look at learning all over the world. It allows more opportunities for observers to learn online rather than learning in class. Another affirmative of taking an online course is flexibility and convenience. Students who would like to experience some of these ideas should look into an online class!