Monthly Archives: April 2009

Giambatista Vico

Giambatista Vico Vico focuses on the study methods of the ancients and modern times. His views discuss how present study methods are better than the study methods of the past, and ways in which the inferior study methods of the…

Commentary – Week Three

Reading Response – Week 3 Xing Lu and Lu Xie have given useful insights on Chinese Rhetoric. Both the writers focused on translation, hermeneutics and also elaborating on a Western approach to Chinese rhetoric. Hermeneutics is the translation of historical…

Hearing the distant voices

Distant Voices. Ironically, in this class that’s all I seem to be able to hear because of the huge computer screens every student sits in front of. The topic of the pros and cons of technological advances in our schools…

Thoughts inspired by Emig

Writing is a learned behavior and talking is natural. This phrase from Janet Emig’s article, “Writing as a  Mode of writing” really sticks out for me today.   It doesn’t take any training to speak, but it does take learning to…

Education and Technology

I found the arguments put forth in Anson’s article, “Distant Voices” intriguing, however, I wonder how much of it is driven by fear of change and the loss of the “academic institution”.  I have experienced almost every form of education…

Writing as a Mode of Learning

Janet Emig’s article, “Writing as a Mode of Learning” described the ways in which she considered writing to be a unique form of learning compared to other modes of talking, listening, and reading.  She categorized writing into two categories.  Writing…

“Distant Voices”

“Distant Voices”                 “Distant Voices” is interesting. As many of the school districts that have the means to do so, are using technology to enhance teaching, those that don’t are relying on Government subsidies in order to try for some…