Blogging Around

     In the first comment I responded to Jessie's blog post Best of the Week: The Elusive Big Idea.  In her post she reflected on the article The Elusive Big Idea.  She explained how she thought that the internet and all of the new technology that we have has prevented our generation from coming up with the "Big Idea". Or in other words, it is making us become less creative people.  She also went over how we tend to overlook how things originated because we are so focused on the new thing.

     I would have to agree with everything you said here.  I think that the internet and certain web sites really are preventing us from being the next big thinkers.  We are so dependent on facebook, pinterest, and other web sites like that, it is so easy for us to just look up a cool idea rather than create it ourselves.  I feel that another way that computers are doing harm on us, well at least for me, is that I have become so dependent on spell check.  I am so bad at spelling and I think the reason for that is because of always writing on Microsoft Word.  All of these great inventions took great thinkers to come up with them, yet they are also preventing us from being creative as well.

     In my second comment I responded to Katie Dwyer's post, It matters: Creativity or Plagiarism.  Her post was about how there is a very thin line between creativity and plagiarism.  She wrote about how while you may think your just being creative, there is a great chance that you are really copying what someone has already done before you.  She explained how using someone else's idea and being creative are so similar that it is really hard to tell the difference.

     I would have to agree with a lot that you are saying. When all the teachers read the same exact rules in every single class, honestly, nobody listens. They make it sound like every idea we have ever heard can never be used again because we can not copy. The only way we get smarter is by learning from example. No one has completely original ideas, because they are always using past examples to form what they create. Honestly, for the most part, no one is purposely plagiarizing, they are just using examples. Now, on the other hand copy and pasting a paper and saying it is yours is going a little over board, and that is more of the focus of plagiarizing. Overall I think the whole plagiarizing idea is drilled down a little too much at the beginning of the year.