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Digital Media Changing Language?

As I read this article on digital media's effects of our English language, I noticed that this language change is not something that has just started to happen. Grammar has been changing throughout the ages, and today that is just continuing. I do feel, however, that our generation is getting too lazy with our grammar rules and that this could have a negative effect on future generations. Many of us do not want to take the time to learn these rules and decide that it doesn't matter one way or the other. We have technology that will correct our mistakes, so why do we need to learn how to be grammatically correct?

 "[I]f you type a misspelled word (or phrase) into Google, chances are the search engine will land you pretty much at the same list of sites you would have reached had you been a finalist in the National Spelling Bee." This is something that, in my own experience, I have realized how lazy I become thanks to technology. Since I know that google will correct my spelling or give me the same results if the word I am searching is spelled wrong, I don't even try to spell correctly many times. There are some words that I have always had trouble spelling, but I don't bother learning because I know that it will be corrected for me.

"Whatever the benefits of digital media, it is destroying the ability of young people to construct the basic unit of the the English Language... the sentence." I do not find this statement to be true. The large majority of my friends will go crazy if they see a grammatical error or poor sentence structure, and every one of them has some sort of digital media that they use. It is not harming our youth, other than making them a little lazier, which can also be see as just making things easier, but rather just changing the way we go about doing things. The way we communicate with spoken and written language has changed over time and will continue to do that as we progress throught this technological age.


                                        

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The Future of Work

The future is an exciting place. Looking back ten, twenty, thirty years or more, you can see how far we have come as a country, a generation, and a global community. Technology has come so far and has become an influence in every part of our lives. This video, The Future of Work, has demonstrated that very point. As we grow and learn, we see technology changing, but many times we do not think of how it will effect our future and our careers. Many people go to college expecting to gain a lifetime career from their studies. The most astounding thing that I heard from this video was that no one can guarantee a lifetime career. The word career is as outdated as the word typewriter. This is something that sounded very strange to me. From the time we began school, we were told that we would someday choose what we wanted to do for the rest of our lives, which now is something that is seen as much less attainable. I feel like although this may be true for some professions, others, like teaching, are occupations that are always going to be needed. In the video, the fact that location will not matter in the future also caught my attention. People from all over the world can work for the same company. Through new technology, communication has become more accessible for far distances. The last thing that stuch out to me was the fact that you won't be limited by where you are. This will make the workplace much more competitive. The more people fighting for jobs will mean fewer job opportunities.

A Reason to Teach

Hi! My name is Emily Harman and I am a freshman at Fairmont State University. I am from Farmington, West Virginia and am studying Elementary Education. I would love to teach 3rd through 6th grade and at sometime would love to teach music. I think that children learn best when you learn with them. As a teacher I plan to include my students and engage them in every part of the learning process. Children need to be encouraged and told that they are meant for a purpose. When they feel like they are worth something, they are so much more likely to grow and succeed. That is my main purpose for teaching and the goal I will strive to achieve.