Over the past couple of weeks, I have learned that technology provides learners with various means to enhance the quality of their understanding and reinforce their prior learning in and outside of traditional classroom. Technology can in fact improve learning if used in an appropriate and effective manner, i.e. technology can enhance learning if it’s effectively incorporated into the course curriculum. In addition, learners can expand their knowledge through online programs and by interacting and collaborating with other individuals and content experts via social media across the nation and the world for that matter, providing easy access to information and resources.

Rose: This course and the materials we’ve learned thus far have changed my perception of the use of technology in education.

 Throne: I’d like to learn more about whether technology hinders physical interactivity now that technology has made interaction and communication so much easier via social media. 

Each of the pieces of this mosaic is a photo I took when I visited the Magic Gardens and other mosaics around South Street over the weekend. Together they become compeletly new versions of what they were before.

When I was reading the mosaic for Thursday, I noticed that it was focused almost entirely on sight. I therefore decided that I was going to make a mosaic out of everything but sight: I only wrote down things I heard, smelled, or touched on the train ride into Philly, in Philly, and then out of Philly.

last one is not clear, I make the mosaic on my own photo and put different eyes, mouth and hands from various "people" into one face.

Look at all these faces with noses or eyes or mouths that don't belong to them.

They are broken to be new
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Has anyone ever questioned the existence of the "female gaze" ? By that I mean the look that some women give, one that is full of assumption and judgement, when seeing a woman known to act promiscuously, or a woman who does the opposite. Numerous times in this past week, I have been a witness to the extreme judgment of a women who chooses to express her gender identity in a way that is considered promiscuous or "slutty" in the eyes of society, BY OTHER WOMEN. Guilty of this myself, I think it is important to consider this gaze, because mistreatment by men based on a woman's lifestyle or dress is one thing, but for a woman to judge and mistreat another for these same reasons puts a huge, hypocritical hole in the feminist cause. We saw evidence of this in The Complete Persepolis when Marjane puts down her classmates for their beliefs and lifestyle, and this is why I had a hard time considering her autobiography a femenist text. Because Marjane was having sex, it seemed that she considered herself above her classmates because they were not rebelling against the state in the way that she was, and that made her independent and them frustrated and weak.