After reading these three articles I have another perspective of more effective ways of learning. I studied Philosophy couple years ago and I was concerned that Socrates’ method for learn more was based in oral conversations and not in writing. Socrates has an interesting point of view were the only way that we are able to learn is through talking and conversation, that was the way that he use to teach to his students. In a sense I think that it is a good point of view because you will pay more attention to the people when they talk since is the only resource of knowledge, also you will hang around wise and people with the same interests as you for obtain more information of what you will like to know. It also true that the human being has limits and ¨you are limited to what you can hold in your mind¨(1) and as I said I think it is a good idea to get knowledge from the oral conversations but it is not the better one. Sometimes we need to retain some information or others we will like to leave alive some of our memories by writing them because by talking everything could change. I think it’s a good way of ¨reminiscence¨ (2). Plato, Socrates’ student is writing the dialogues that Socrates was having. For me is not contradicted, as I think he could thought that the wise Socrates had to be remembered by everyone and known in the future therefore he had to write down their wisest and complex ideas about the knowledge.
Nowadays this writing has become excessive and not even in a proper grammatically way. The new technologies as Internet has become as in machines were we find the information rapidly that in old ages ¨but it comes at a price; we lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the we or in print¨(3) We are so use to read over the paragraphs, to get hundreds of sources on Internet to find what we are looking for, that we became lazy and once we have to read more than one paragraphs to get the content we need we get tired and change the page. That’s so true and I TOTALLY AGREE, with the LAZINESS that the INTERNET had created. I love it, but it had create a great problem among the people, specially has the teenagers. Personally I lost the ability, if I had it before, of reading long texts or of searching through a long prose without changing of article or website as soon as I don’t see what I need right away. This great article open my mind, and if you don’t exercise your brain reading it will not come naturally to us because it is not a characteristic that we need to live that is why we do not born with that ability and we have to work on it.
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VALERIA KUBLIY // Feb 4th 2015 at 4:25 pm
I do agree with you about usefulness of the Socratic method of teaching, since it’s a student-centered approach that contests learners to cultivate their critical thinking skills and engage in analytic discussion. However, I disagree with your argument about progressing idleness of teenagers due to Internet evolution. You point is “we…became lazy and once we have to read more than one paragraphs to get the content we need we get tired and change the page.” I think, it is more depends on author’s style of writing, instead of loosing our ability to concentrate. If author doesn’t hold your attention, material or topic of the article itself is too dry, or irrelevant, no need to blame technology for this, instead we should question someone’s ability to wright about challenging topic in a attention-grabbing way. Thus, lack of our concentration capacity, possibly due to someone’s deficiency of journalistic talent.