While reading the article's, you cant help but think what is the message they are trying to get across to you. Some are advertising a new program that benefit college students and some that seem to be selling a product. One article in particular would be the new technology that Purdue University is starting this two thousand nine fall semester. This program is called "signals" and is for the main purpose to increase college students grades and over all way they approach a class. The way this program works is that as soon as the students log onto there accounts there will be the program kind of working like a stop light showing hoe the students are doing in there classes.
The basic colors, red, yellow and green are significant in there own way. The red is the worst. Meaning that the student is failing and could possibly lose credit for that class. The yellow is reserved for students that are not doing there best but also just getting by. This does not mean that the student is absolutly safe from failing but should take a little more effort before the light hits red. Which in turn would mean that they have hit the failing mark. The last and final color green. Reserved for students that are not only turning in the homework on time and scoring high on test in the classroom, but also with extra help. This along the lines of scheduled tutoring, login's when they check there updates for there classes and what they'll be doing in that class.
This system does not only tell the student what there grade or color they have in each subject, but it also gives the college student advice on what they can do to improve. It suggest resources that they should look into such as tutors and notes from there professors saying what can be done to improve. This new program has not yet reached SAC yet, but while reading the article i couldn't help but fell like they where making it seem like it should be in every college campus.
Another article that had a twist on the subject was "Txtng the gr8 db8". This talked about how technology is not only changing but could possibly be changing for the bad. Now that people have so many ways of talk to each other that it has beegan to affect the way we right. This along the lines of our grammar and also our english language as well. This article makes the argument that not only is texting effecting the way we right but also the way people are changing with social patterns. In my opinion, when we use writting it will imporve our overall writting and will not effect us in a bad way.
The basic colors, red, yellow and green are significant in there own way. The red is the worst. Meaning that the student is failing and could possibly lose credit for that class. The yellow is reserved for students that are not doing there best but also just getting by. This does not mean that the student is absolutly safe from failing but should take a little more effort before the light hits red. Which in turn would mean that they have hit the failing mark. The last and final color green. Reserved for students that are not only turning in the homework on time and scoring high on test in the classroom, but also with extra help. This along the lines of scheduled tutoring, login's when they check there updates for there classes and what they'll be doing in that class.
This system does not only tell the student what there grade or color they have in each subject, but it also gives the college student advice on what they can do to improve. It suggest resources that they should look into such as tutors and notes from there professors saying what can be done to improve. This new program has not yet reached SAC yet, but while reading the article i couldn't help but fell like they where making it seem like it should be in every college campus.
Another article that had a twist on the subject was "Txtng the gr8 db8". This talked about how technology is not only changing but could possibly be changing for the bad. Now that people have so many ways of talk to each other that it has beegan to affect the way we right. This along the lines of our grammar and also our english language as well. This article makes the argument that not only is texting effecting the way we right but also the way people are changing with social patterns. In my opinion, when we use writting it will imporve our overall writting and will not effect us in a bad way.
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