Wikipedia Worksheet and Response

Wikipedia Reliability Worksheet

I clicked on a user named Transito and he said this, "To respect the work of others when I edit a page I do my best not to delete anything and move replaced content to a more appropriate section" I think that that is very polite and suprising that the user respects other users' work even if their work is inaccurate. This writer simply moves his added content somewhere else on the article. This makes my reliability decrease because it seems like this user has to correct statements quite often. For the user 222.8.85.240 I learned that he usually is a user that notcies and corrects grammar and spelling mistakes. This increases my reliability in Wikipedia because I feel like the information I am receiving is accurate and worded correctly. This grammar and spelling reliability also goes for the user 156.99.93.219 who had changes to user's language in their logs. For the very same reason as the last user I read about, this increases my reliability.

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                                         Video on why Social Media is not ruining writing

Are Digital Media Changing Language Response

Quote from article: "Yes, young people sometimes accidentally slip a btw (by the way) into a school essay. But a recent study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project confirms that middle school and high school students understand what kind of language is appropriate in what context (Lenhart, Smith, & Macgill, 2008). What's more, scholars of new media language, such as David Crystal and Beverly Plester, remind us that the new technologies encourage creativity, which can spill over into school writing (Crystal, 2008; Plester, Wood, & Bell, 2008)."

 My position on this quote is that I strongly agree. Kids know what kind of languge and grammar is
acceptable. They know that texting abbreviations like ttyl, nm, and brb are not appropriate when writing papers or essays. In english class I have had to read many essays and writings from other students. I have yet to ever come across someone who uses texting abbreviations in their writings. Students just don't do it because they know that the teacher will deduct points of their grade. Students use the texting language when it is acceptable, but write properly when needed.

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                                                  KIDS ARE THE FUTURE OF WORK.

I have had a few experiences that have helped me in my field of study and the future of the work. Last semester I had the pleasure of being in intro to education which truthfully explained my work of study. My professor was honest and told us problems we would have to face. He taught us that in this profession passion is what drives you and not money. This course gave me a huge understanding of what my future career will be like and I am sure other educational courses I take will do the same. Another experience I had was over the summer I worked at Camp Crawdad. Camp Crawdad is a summer camp for kids which we had from ages as little as five years old all the way to kids who were twelve. At this camp we taught the kids how to play sports, which I instructed tennis lessons, arts and crafts, swimming, discipline, and other fun and useful tasks. We also had prepared food delivered from our county's school department. For this job we had to learn CPR, First Aid, obtain a food handlers license, and other necessary requirements. Many of us had strong relationships with the children and enjoyed helping them learn whether it be to ride a bike or how to spell. It was a very rewarding job and it also gave me experience of what it would be like working with kids.

After watching the Future of the Work video there were several things that stood out to me that caused me to have feelings towards. During the short video there was a saying that said "No one is going to guarantee you a lifetime career." This worries me that all of this preparation and learning in college towards my degree might not count for anything as I quickly might lose my teaching job in today's society and economy. I want to feel secure that I will have my job that I am passionate about and not have to worry over my dreams being crushed. Another saying that I noticed was "to stay employed you need to stand out" I agree with this but I also disagree with this statement. I feel that the workplace, at least for teachers, should not be a competition however I feel that the better a teacher does, the better their students will learn and develop. Which your performance might later save your job over another teachers if the school had to lay off employees. Lastly the last comment that stood out to me was the final slide, "Because the future of the work is you." I highly agree with this. We are the future of the work. The youth will later be the older and then there kids will be the future. We are the age where we will decide how careers will be in years to come. It is essential we do as much as we can to learn and become what we want to be and take the workforce to new heights.

 Dr. Seuss will often be used in my future classroom. I feel that this image relates to me because I want to help students gain the knowledge and understanding that they are their own person and they can learn skills to be anything they put their mind to.

A great educational website that teaches kids fun ways to learn math, reading and other skills through games and more fun! FunBrain!

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