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The link above is to the picture of my brainstorming session.

For my brainstorming session I listed all of the texts we had to choose from for this essay; Richard Restak’s essay, Sam Anderson’s article, Robin Henig’s essay, and Thomas King’s TEDx talk. Then, underneath the each person’s name, I listed the main topics or the topics that related to the prompt and circled each of them. Then I drew lines connecting the topics in each category. The orange lines represented the ideas that support how the availability of constant information could strengthen young minds and the purple lines represented the ideas that support how it could weaken young minds. I wanted to be able to see which claim would have more evidence that I could you as support in my essay. I found that for strengthening young minds I could talk about how times are changing and there is a need for speed, people are expecting more from others when it comes to being efficient, and how focus is a voluntary thing so technology is creating more options for young people to find what interests them and how they want to apply that to the world. I would you the texts from Restack, Anderson, and King for that claim. If I was to write about how constant information weakens young minds I could talk about how it is actually impossible for people to multitask and how that affects young people’s brains. I could also talk about how more jobs have many jobs for people to fulfill and how that can affect mental health of individuals, and how people are turning to drugs to try to keep up with the many impossible jobs they are being asked to do. I could also connect technology to how young people are taking longer to grow up because it is so time consuming. For this claim I would use the texts from Restack, Anderson, and Henig.

I think this ePortfolio has the potential to be very cool and helpful students. You can post things for others to see and essentially blog about things. It’s basically making your own website. I think that setting this up is very difficult and there could have been a set class time to go over how to do everything. The office hours for Digispace are helpful, but it would’ve been more helpful if they had hours during the afternoon to get help.

I think that the ePortfolio makes it more possible to share your work with others compared to pen and paper. Pretty much anymore can read and see your work if they know how to find your page and if you have it set up for the public to see. With pen and paper you actually have to send your work to other people or have them see it in person. The ePortfolio takes out the face-to-face part of sharing your work which is more modern.

The only other digital technology I’ve had experience with is Google Docs. I love Google Docs because it’s so easy to share your work with people and have them comment or edit things for you. You can also do group projects at the same time and you don’t have to be in the same room to do it. Google Docs is more assignment oriented, while this ePortfolio seems more like a website/blog space. You can customize it to your liking, which on Google Docs you do not have so much freedom to do so.

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Brainstorming Session

ePortfolio Reflection