homework 7

Huijun yu

Professor Liz

WRT 103

October 10, 2013

What part of Rheingold’s argument intrigues you? Why?

The experience of the author that to teach her students in means of the internet system instead of the traditional methods intrigues me greatly. Unlike the face-to face communication, using the network to teach students, that students will be always-and -everywhere with the computer instead of put more effort on the professor himself, will be benefit of cultivate students to be proficient at using the internet system intelligently. There are the advantages and the negative effects at the same time. Learning to select the inflow of information we receive is a tough challenge for students that we should know ourselves very well including knowing what the information we need actually and how long we should spend on it. Students who can master to use the internet will gain countless benefit that from personal aspect that they will broaden their network and impersonal aspect that the effort of every individual participating to the internet will be combined to the exceptional energy for the society. On the contrary, the students who cannot let themselves under control will lose themselves through the internet channel. So practicing ourselves to exert the control to be away from the temptation, namely useless or unhealthy information,  is the key to master the internet.

From my perspective, refusing to develop the internet is not a good method for us to be successful in this twenty-first century. The computer will not only enhance the efficiency to finish the assignments, but also share the knowledge and intelligence with each other. In another aspect, the flow of information will distract us that the doing multitask is not a good habit for the majority, including me, because we are not capable of pay most of our attention on the meaningful things. For an instance, when I have concentrated on the assignment for a long time, I will eager to go the Face book to relax myself. In fact, I will be out of control when I encounter so many engaged stuffs. In this case, the useless information lead me to lose myself.

The author point out one of the most crucial problem for the majority and provide us an excellent way to avoid this problem that we should ask ourselves what we really want before we make the decision to use any media. This is the part of the article I like best.