(not to be outdone with the german) Danke Alles, und guten Abend!

first off, i said a long time ago that i think computers have a big place in the classroom although not as complete replacements. i thought that computers would just be a way for teachers to access information easier and would be very benefitial for multimedia presentations to add videos, sounds, and pictures to a lecture. i thought that would be very convienent and helpful to the teacher, and i also thought that it would help the kids learn. after hearing some discussion and what emily said about what she has seen in teaching, i think that there would be more problems then benefits with the computers. first of all the teachers are from the pre-computer age, and as i have seen many times, especially in high school, most teachers cannont use computers well at times. many times i have seen the teacher have something set up, only to have it mess up and have to get fixed, which would take up a lot of class time, and then it wouldnt even be that much better than an overhead projector or a regular lecture. this just wastes time and is a hassle. also i dont think it helps that much anyway. mostly they are just putting notes on microsoft powerpoint, which they could just dictate to us or use an overhead projector instead and it would be just as easy. also, i think that the powerpoints only end up having the kids just copy down the notes word for word from the powerpoint and never actually have the material sink in. i think that when a teacher just lectures, the students actually have to think about what is being said and write down what they think is important

for my second challenge i want to talk about what i said earlier about saying it was unfair to call the monster from frankenstein a cyborg. i said that since he was made of all human parts and since he could learn things and had feelings he would have to be all human. now i think that it is also good to call the monster a cyborg. he is not natural at all. he was made by man and man's creation from parts of different but already dead humans. he was created in a lab, and there was a bunch of technology and machines used to make him. also, as it is shown in the movie, he does not fit in with the human population he was designed in the image of. he is an outsider, and is nothing like a normal human. he has not experienced any of the things that the other humans have, he never was born, he never grew up, he never had real parents. so in that sense of unnatural feelings and artificial creation i think it is fair to say that the monster is just like a cyborg. also i think that the previously mentioned statement in class that he, like the cyborg, is a borderline case, which is another simularity that can make the monster a good candidate for comparison to a cyborg