Frontline: Digital Nation

In PBS's Frontline show "Digital Nation," I found South Korea's game/internet addiction problem most interesting. It is amazing that they actually diagnose this as a real addiction like an addiction to alcohol. From my own experience and seeing others, I believe it is a real actual addiction that some people may not be able to conquer on their own. This is something that we as teachers will have to cope with in the classroom. Do we try taking the addictive technology away, or do we give in and accept that the human race will be attached to the internet.

You can watch the whole show on PBS.org

1st class

This class is going to be very helpful to me it seems so far. I was expecting to come into a class re-learning boring things I already know how to do on a computer, but we will learn about things I've been curious in and never tried, like podcasts, and other things I've never even knew existed.

I also believe we have a good group of classmates from different backgrounds and situations to create vibrant discussion with different insightful view points.

Our instructor Professor Murphy-Genter seems to have the best of both worlds, good teaching experience and extensive technology experience.

Hopefully the workload won't be a burden!


-Jimmy