Metaphors as Ways of Seeing March 29, 2010
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The metaphor in the picture shows how much Americans see animals as food. Other cultures such as African cultures see cows as a form of wealth, while Indians consider them holy, and would never consider eating them. In the U.S. food has become a business, instead of a means of survival. We have Burger King and Mcdonalds were we can get cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets for 1$. This devalues the life of animals to dollar signs, and the small group of people that still value animal rights are mocked. Factory Farming has become an epidemic in the U.S. were cows who were meant to graze freely, eat things they cannot even digest, including other cows brains. They are a food source and should be revered, because they give life to our communities, but instead we cram them into pens where they can’t move and force them to walk around in their own feces.
By using the picture of a cow shaped like a hamburger as a metaphor, it shows how society views animals, especially cows; as delicious, expendable sustenance.
Richardson Ch. 6 March 1, 2010
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Everywhere I am hearing praises for Twitter; it expands social networking and makes people feel part of a more global community. However, I disagree with the use of twitter as an educational to. It makes sense as a personal networking tool, or as a “social notepad” as Richardson calls it, but it skirts boundaries of private and professional life, much like the social networking on Facebook or Myspace. Since education is becoming more and more a group effort, these social networks are crucial for teachers to communicate and expand their resources and references.
Social bookmarking services seems especially useful for professional networking; I am always finding good teaching sites and then either forgetting what thy are or losing the URL. Being able to form a social network based on sharing resources will be very helpful as a teacher. For example, a website I found named Delicious is a social bookmarking website. One just enters keywords that are relevant to their topic and numerous links pop up with similar key words. I entered the word ‘education’ and about 12 different articles popped up with the number of people who had also bookmarked these pages. These social bookmarking websties allow us a way to organize the otherwise overwhelming web into a way that one can make useful for themselves.
