~Reflecting on West's Article~

The first thing that I want to say about West's article is that I think it's funny. It's amusing how teachers study their students and experiment on them, haha. And a warning to keep in mind with professors! But I definitely understand the impulse and I don't think there's anything wrong with it- if anything it adds to the learning environment. I think that West's article will be a helpful reference when we are having to dissect identity information out of our own blogs. It's hard to objectively look at yourself like that without drawing on other information that we obviously know, so having some strategies like those discussed in the article will be helpful. Besides all of that I think the article is interesting, blogging certainly creates a more informal atmosphere for students and allows more of a free-flow of thoughts. But something to think about is if academia is transforming into this informal objective conversational place, will other aspects of discipline and traditional forms of schooling be lost? What might schools look like in the future? Everything online? Virtual teaching? No more textbooks? Something to think about... :)