Essay+2+Assignment+Sheet

Essay 2—Looking at the 21st Century Drafts Due: Typed. During your conference with me. Final Draft Due: Typed, 3-5 pages. October 25.
 * 1) Using the freewrites we’ve done in class, write a digital literacy narrative that supports a central theme or an overall conclusion. For example, one of these //might// be:
 * 2) An insight about your use of digital media today that was influenced by your past experience.
 * 3) An argument for why your digital education up to this point was flawed and how it could have been better or an argument for why you have had a great digital education up till now.
 * 4) A description of an ongoing conflict or tension you experience when you use digital tools or media.
 * 5) An insight on how a digital literacy sponsor or a group of sponsors affected your digital literacy today.


 * 1) Select a sense Daniel Pink describes in A Whole New Mind and write about how this sense already manifests itself in your life in particular. Be specific. That is, write about your life and particular examples of that sense in action, don’t write about people in general. For example, instead of writing, “People are influenced by the design of objects,” write about how the design of an object influences you. Remember Dan Pink’s story about getting a new phone? That’s a specific story about how design affected him.


 * 1) Choose a statement in //A Whole New Mind// that interests you and write an essay with a thesis that either agrees with or disagrees with it. Use specifics to support your essay.


 * 1) Write on a topic on digital literacy OR A Whole New Mind using a thesis of your choice; just clear it with me first.