Playing video games isn’t a waste of time: How McGonigal says why it matters

For my response I chose the TED Talk video on how the Gaming can make a better real world. In her talk, McGonigal addresses the “so what?” question by stating how playing more video games can…

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence: A response to Newman and Chiang

I argue that artificial intelligence has been a helpful tool that has made humans more efficient in accomplishing tasks and finding out information. It gives us an…

Blog Post 5

Tom Bissell’s essay “Extra Lives” describes one man’s addiction to video games, which has been spearheading his indifference towards activities he once found enjoyable. Bissell’s struggle is one experienced by millions of people in our relatively new digital world. Recent reports of experiences like…

Blog Post 6

Original paragraph from Draft 1: The single largest controversy facing the video game industry is their effect on players’ health. Particularly focused on violent video games and their negative contributions to mental health, there have been myriad studies performed over the past few decades on the…

Blog Post #6

Original: Broadway is the cultural hub and center of all theatre. Although Broadway seems like it only concerns people who like “toe-tapping” show tunes, it should concern anyone who enjoys viewing entertainment. Theatre showcases talent, art, music, and lately technology. All things that most people…

Rough Draft

Social media has become the most popular electronic entertainment in this day in age since it was released. According to Merriam Webster dictionary the definition of social media is “forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online…

Alexandra Reiner

March 2018

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In my opinion, artificial intelligence can be both beneficial and detrimental. This is illustrated by the arguments stemming from two articles, “To Siri, With Love” by Judith Newman, and “Silicon Valley is Turning Into Its Own Worst…

Blog Post #4

Artificial Intelligence has many benefits and drawbacks. It can advance society to new heights with its support for manufacturers and inventors. It also becomes too much like human life and the theories that AI will take over start to become closer to truth than fear. A robot has recently been developed…

Artificial Intelligence

To me artificial intelligence seems like a science fiction myth. I have always viewed it as something that everyone would joke about, as if there was never a chance it could come true. However I’ve recently changed my mind on the subject. I can say I have seen a robot that look…

Alexandra Reiner

Blog Post 6

April 2018

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Along with discussing the challenges of effectively utilizing technology in the classroom, this article discusses how inconsistently teachers are trained in technology usage. This article…

Police Body Cameras

Police misconduct has become a rising issue in the world, it seems that every time you turn around the news is reporting another incident in which a police officer has committed a heinous act of misconduct. To counter this epidemic many people, and police, are swaying toward the use of body…

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Chapter 9 of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, a book by Tom Bissell, does not appear to answer any “so what?” or “who cares?” question. I suppose because the passage assigned was just an excerpt from a book, which could explain why this section is lacking both of the questions. The title suggests that video…

Blog Post #4

1. I have never really thought about AI or the cost/benefits to it. I think the obvious would be that it is beneficial in the sense that a lot of AI can solve problems that humans otherwise can’t in a short amount of time. They can also serve as virtual assistants (think of Siri, Alexa, Google Home Mini…

Blog Post #5

Jane McGonigal answers the “who cares” question within her TedTalk by stating that the whole audience needs to spend time playing video games. She also answers the “so what” question by explaining how the world has to play 21 billion hours of video games a week total in order to survive on the planet for…

Robots Take Over the World; But is that Necessarily a Bad Thing?

Artificial Intelligence is perhaps hundreds of years away, and yet people everywhere still argue about A.I. like it is right here on our doorstep. I, for one, would love to have a robot that is completely capable of…

Blog Post #6: Revising

In attempts to support my argument I will map out the rest of the paper based on my reasonings for why I took this approach rather than a strictly government or private-approach. For example, I will talk about how benefiting a partnership between NASA and private companies can be towards…

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Now, however, my perspective has changed greatly, which is ironic because I seem to have less time to put in the work necessary. I have become what I disliked and laughed at when I was younger and did not know as much. But similar to Homer from The Simpsons, I had an epiphany…

Fore! The technology surrounding the sport of golf is evolving out of bounds every day, and is leading to immense debate among golfers, industry manufacturers and regulators. New adaptations are leading to increased distance for tour players and more control of where they hit each shot. Some researchers argue that while the game is more interesting…

Blog Post #5

The article, “Extra Lives” by Tom Bissell, describes how video games have overtaken this man’s life. He opens up the article by discussing how he wrote several books and published a mass amount of magazine journalism but that was “Once upon a time” ago. He begins to explain how once upon a time was a…

Blog Post #6: Revise don’t Edit

However, when speaking with other college students on campus, this sleep schedule seems quite favorable compared to some others. It is not unheard of for students to pull all-nighters multiple times a month in order to accomplish the work in their complete the work from…

Blog Post #6 Nick Melfi

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Throughout the past two decades, technology has become an integral part of many aspects of human life. Whether it be keeping in touch with friends and family throughout the day or the devices that doctors now rely upon to save the lives of…

Is artificial intelligence the way we go?

I used to always think of AI as a positive force that would propel civilization into the promising ages. My view on artificial intelligence quickly changed once I heard about the havoc that it can bring on to humanity. I never truly knew of the danger of…

Blog Post #5

For this blog post I chose to examine the Ted Talk by Jane McGonigal. In her talk, I believe she is trying to reach the audience of not only gamers but people who want to make a difference in the world. To answer the question of what the difference would be if she addressed the audience or not; I believe…

“Countering” example

“Darwin Was Wrong About Dating”

Blog Post #5

In the Chapter “Extra Lives” by Tom Bissel, he describes his experience losing himself in video games, specifically Grand Theft Auto. The entire chapter is a walk through of his time spent exploring the vastness of the virtual world and how it has affected his relationships. Bissel mentions the friends…

Blog Post 5: So what, who cares?

Jane McGonigal in her TED talk segment focuses on the upcoming generation of gamers and what their time online is teaching them in terms of life skills. She is able to answer the questions “so what?” in this video by explaining through statistics the effect significant…

Blog Pot #6

Different articles focus on different technologies that are being used in secondary education. In an academic research paper focusing on the impact of technology on science education, Zarah Aljuzayri along with his co-authors, quote another author who puts the different devices into separate categories…

As society grows today, people are starting to rely more on artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is the development of computers and technology where it can do different tasks that usually humans perform. My take on artificial intelligence is that humans are starting to take advantage of this system and becoming lazy. They are starting to…

Blog Post #5 Alex Morales

In Jane McGonigal’s Ted Talk, “Gaming can make a Better World”, the speaker claims that the usage of more video games by human beings will significantly impact world problems in a beneficial way. A statistic provided by McGonigal states that three billion hours are spent playing…

Blog Post 4

Artificial intelligence is inevitable in the near future with technological advancements. This advancement could very well be positive in creating a more convenient lifestyle for humans in everyday life. People are already using devices like Siri, Alexa and Google to make their lives easier by turning on…

Blog Post Number 5

Teresa Piccolo

English 110

Blog Post Number 5

In the Ted Talk, the speaker, video game creator Jane McGonigal speaks of how video games could potentially help “save the world.” She tries to persuade the audience that…

Blog Post #6

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The main idea behind the horse’s “frame” is that it allows the rider to have better contact with the horse’s mouth via a steady connection on the reins, which attach to the bit, the metal piece in the mouth. It also relates to stride length; equines put their feet down…

After listening to Jane’s Ted talk about video games being able to save the world, she cares a lot about her topic. She offers several examples of past and present researchers who care about how playing more video games could better the world as a whole. By doing this she shows that not only her but others care about this topic around the world…

Blog Post Number 3

Teresa Piccolo

English 110 Section 105

Blog Post Number Three

Due: 02/27/2018

In the article “Schools around the US are finally pushing back their start times — and it’s working,” written by…

In Rewriting How to Do Things with Texts the author, Joseph Harris, exclaims the usage of countering what is written in a text. He states throughout the chapter how important it is to develop a total new idea or statement that is in response to a limited or defective piece of writing or statements. The New York Times recently published an article…

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In wake of the recent school shooting Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 dead and more than a dozen injured, critics and activists for gun control have rallied to let their voice be heard. More have come to call for change after it was announced the president…

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Everytime I hear of artificial intelligence, commonly referred to as AI, I always think of either The Terminator movies, or Wall-E. Whether it is the extreme of cyborgs and AI trying to wipe the earth of all humans, or people becoming lazy and depending on AI to do everything for them, I am always…

Artificial Intelligence represents the future of mankind in all different types of fantasies. Movies, books, and TV shows are all are based around this futuristic idea of a technological mind. This is a very interesting, yet controversial topic for many due to the eventual implications that this advancement may bring. It definitely will revolutionize…

Blog Post Four

Teresa Piccolo

English 110

Section 105

Blog Post Number Four

Artificial intelligence has grown quickly in the past few years. I believe this has been and will be beneficial to humanity, however only…

Blog Post 4: Nick Melfi

I personally believe that artificial intelligence is a cause for concern in some respects, but that it also has some positive affects as well. I feel that artificial intelligence will benefit us in a lot of ways and open up many new doors that we have yet to discover, however I think…

Blog Post #4

Personally, I believe that Artificial intelligence needs to be closely monitored. As we create machines that can think critically, they will continue to do so and accrue and process information faster than humans ever could. If these machines are designed to think critically, they are also making…

blog post #4

I feel like artificial intelligence has been misrepresented and misunderstood almost since it was first proposed. Artificial intelligence is an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. Some of the activities computers with artificial…

Blog Post #5

Right from the start, Jane McGonigal answers the “so what?” question. She says that gaming currently takes up 3 billion hours a week. She follows that up saying that it is not enough. We need to take up 21 billion hours a week to solve world issues like poverty, world hunger, obesity and more. People in…