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PURPOSIVE
COMMUNICATION
Module Two
Work Sheet
English Language Department
College of Arts and Letters
Bicol University
Legazpi City
DENNIS R. MIRABUENO
Instructor
[email protected]
0908-864-5417
PROPERTY OF
JOMARI KAISER M. BERMIDO
BS ARCHITECTURE 2G
__________________________________________________
Name of Student/Course and Year
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DIRECTION:
After reading and understanding the learning contents of MODULE TWO, you are
now ready to answer the following tasks. Keep in mind that most of the tasks would
simply require you to share your own thoughts and ideas – meaning – everything is
subjective. There will be no wrong answers. So please do not copy and paste. I have
my way of finding out if you do. But in instances where you want to include quotes or
passages from online resources, please mention your reference/s.
Generally, the tasks are quite simple. Only LAZY students will find them difficult. Do
not procrastinate even if you have the entire semester to accomplish these tasks. Once
completed, send this MODULE ONE WORKSHEET to my email drmirabueno@bicol-
u.edu.ph and write on the subject line: M2 WORKSHEET, then indicate your COURSE,
YEAR & BLOCK – example: M2 WORKSHEET ARKI2A or M2 WORKSHEET BSSW2A.
Enjoy working on these tasks. =)
PS: If you have questions and would need clarifications, do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you.
“The FASTER you finish your homework,
the more relieved you become.”
- Park Bo Gum, Record of Youth.
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Can you guess what these logos are?
1. FACEBOOK
2. TWITTER
3. INSTAGRAM
4. SNAPCHAT
5. GOOGLE CHROME
6. SKYPE
7. LINKEDIN
8. YOUTUBE
9. TELEGRAM
QUESTION:
How do these new technologies affect the way we communicate today?
Your answer here:
Technology affects the way we communicate today differently compared in the past. Because
technology makes communication more efficient and easier to use than before. By using technology
communication is much easier to use when reaching to your love ones.
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NOW LET’S DO A SELF AUDIT!
Check the column that best describes your ability to communicate in the context of globalization.
USUALLY SOMETIMES SELDOM NEVER
3 2 1 0
1. I express my ideas effectively in verbal,
nonverbal, and written forms in either ✓
digital or non-digital environments or
both.
2. I use effective listening skills to evaluate ✓
arguments and rationalize judgments,
and work relationships.
3. I communicate with purpose to a variety ✓
of audiences.
4. I understand the concept of diversity and ✓
promote respect all the time.
5. I use technology and social media ✓
responsibly.
6. I promote collaboration and cooperation ✓
with others.
7. I apply creative thinking on complex ✓
situations to arrive at sound conclusions
and communicate these in both digital
and non-digital forms.
8. I demonstrate working well with others ✓
and sharing my ideas with them with
respect.
9. I consider diversity in communicating with ✓
others.
10. I develop effective communication skills ✓
for global context.
TOTAL 24 4
GRAND TOTAL 28
LET’S NOW SEE YOUR RESULTS AND ITS INTERPRETATION:
SCORE LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY
28-30 Advanced
25-27 Proficient
23-24 Approaching Proficiency
21-22 Developing
20-below Beginning
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Task 1
1. What other effects of globalization to communication have
you observed or read about?
2. Do you think globalization will eventually lead countries to
embrace a single culture? Are you agreeable to the idea of having
one culture?
YOUR ANSWER HERE:
1. One of the things that I’ve observed in globalization affecting communication is that we Filipinos are easy to
be influenced by other countries culture and sometimes act like them or copy their gestures and the way they
talk. And I can’t say whether it’s a bad or good effect on communication since being influenced by other
countries has their own pros and cons. But overall in my own opinion, being influenced by other countries is a
good and a normal thing since you’ll be able to develop they’re culture, on how they talk, and how they act,
same thing on the gestures.
2. I think that globalization will not eventually lead countries to embrace a single culture. Because as long as
there are people who are accustomed by their own culture that was past by their ancestors it will always be
there and it will not be replaced. The idea of having one culture is a good thing especially if it’s just in a
small province or villages where indigenous people lives. But if we are talking about the whole country
embracing and having only one culture is not a good thing to do because it might be disrespectful for the
other cultures and especially to the people who have been accustomed by their own culture and it might
eventually cause misunderstandings and miscommunications.
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Task 2
THE FLIGHT FROM CONVERSATION
Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle is a psychologist and professor at M.I.T. and the author, most recently,
of “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other.”
The New York Times.
WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet
we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mail. At work, executives text
during board meetings. We text (and shop and go on Facebook) during classes and
when we’re on dates. My students tell me about an important new skill: it involves
maintaining eye contact with someone while you text someone else; it’s hard, but it
can be done.
Over the past 15 years, I’ve studied technologies of mobile connection and talked to
hundreds of people of all ages and circumstances about their plugged-in lives. I’ve
learned that the little devices most of us carry around are so powerful that they
change not only what we do, but also who we are.
We’ve become accustomed to a new way of being “alone together.” Technology-
enabled, we are able to be with one another, and also elsewhere, connected to
wherever we want to be. We want to customize our lives. We want to move in and
out of where we are because the thing, we value most is control over where we focus
our attention. We have gotten used to the idea of being in a tribe of one, loyal to our
own party.
Our colleagues want to go to that board meeting but pay attention only to what
interests them. To some this seems like a good idea, but we can end up hiding from
one another, even as we are constantly connected to one another.
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A businessman laments that he no longer has colleagues at work. He doesn’t stop by to talk;
he doesn’t call. He says that he doesn’t want to interrupt them. He says they’re “too busy on
their e-mail.” But then he pauses and corrects himself. “I’m not telling the truth. I’m the one
who doesn’t want to be interrupted. I think I should. But I’d rather just do things on my
BlackBerry.”
A 16-year-old boy who relies on texting for almost everything says almost wistfully,
“Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I’d like to learn how to have a conversation.”
In today’s workplace, young people who have grown up fearing conversation show up on the
job wearing earphones. Walking through a college library or the campus of a high-tech start-
up, one sees the same thing: we are together, but each of us is in our own bubble, furiously
connected to keyboards and tiny touch screens. A senior partner at a Boston law firm
describes a scene in his office. Young associates lay out their suite of technologies: laptops,
iPods and multiple phones. And then they put their earphones on. “Big ones. Like pilots. They
turn their desks into cockpits.” With the young lawyers in their cockpits, the office is quiet, a
quiet that does not ask to be broken.
In the silence of connection, people are comforted by being in touch with a lot of people —
carefully kept at bay. We can’t get enough of one another if we can use technology to keep
one another at distances we can control - not too close, not too far, just right. I think of it as
a Goldilocks effect.
Texting and e-mail and posting let us present the self we want to be. This means we can edit.
And if we wish to, we can delete. Or retouch: the voice, the flesh, the face, the body. Not too
much, not too little — just right.
Human relationships are rich; they’re messy and demanding. We have learned the habit of
cleaning them up with technology. And the move from conversation to connection is part of
this. But it’s a process in which we shortchange ourselves. Worse, it seems that over time we
stop caring, we forget that there is a difference.
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We are tempted to think that our little “sips” of online connection add up to a big gulp
of real conversation. But they don’t. E-mail, Twitter, Facebook, all of these have their
places — in politics, commerce, romance and friendship. But no matter how valuable,
they do not substitute for conversation.
Connecting in sips may work for gathering discrete bits of information or for saying, “I
am thinking about you.” Or even for saying, “I love you.” But connecting in sips doesn’t
work as well when it comes to understanding and knowing one another. In
conversation we tend to one another. (The word itself is kinetic; it’s derived from
words that mean to move, together.) We can attend to tone and nuance. In
conversation, we are called upon to see things from another’s point of view.
FACE-TO-FACE conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience. When we
communicate on our digital devices, we learn different habits. As we ramp up the
volume and velocity of online connections, we start to expect faster answers. To get
these, we ask one another simpler questions; we dumb down our communications,
even on the most important matters. It is as though we have all put ourselves on cable
news. Shakespeare might have said, “We are consum’d with that which we were
nourish’d by.”
And we use conversation with others to learn to converse with ourselves. So, our flight
from conversation can mean diminished chances to learn skills of self-reflection. These
days, social media continually asks us what’s “on our mind,” but we have little
motivation to say something truly self-reflective. Self-reflection in conversation
requires trust. It’s hard to do anything with 3,000 Facebook friends except connect.
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As we get used to being shortchanged on conversation and to getting by with less, we
seem almost willing to dispense with people altogether. Serious people muse about
the future of computer programs as psychiatrists. A high school sophomore confides
to me that he wishes he could talk to an artificial intelligence program instead of his
dad about dating; he says the A.I. would have so much more in its database. Indeed,
many people tell me they hope that as Siri, the digital assistant on Apple’s iPhone,
becomes more advanced, “she” will be more and more like a best friend — one who
will listen when others won’t.
During the years I have spent researching people and their relationships with
technology, I have often heard the sentiment “No one is listening to me.” I believe this
feeling helps explain why it is so appealing to have a Facebook page or a Twitter feed
— each provides so many automatic listeners. And it helps explain why — against all
reason — so many of us are willing to talk to machines that seem to care about us.
Researchers around the world are busy inventing sociable robots, designed to be
companions to the elderly, to children, to all of us.
One of the most haunting experiences during my research came when I brought one
of these robots, designed in the shape of a baby seal, to an elder-care facility, and an
older woman began to talk to it about the loss of her child. The robot seemed to be
looking into her eyes. It seemed to be following the conversation. The woman was
comforted.
And so many people found this amazing. Like the sophomore who wants advice about
dating from artificial intelligence and those who look forward to computer psychiatry,
this enthusiasm speaks to how much we have confused conversation with connection
and collectively seem to have embraced a new kind of delusion that accepts the
simulation of compassion as sufficient unto the day. And why would we want to talk
about love and loss with a machine that has no experience of the arc of human life?
Have we so lost confidence that we will be there for one another?
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WE expect more from technology and less from one another and seem increasingly drawn to
technologies that provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of relationship.
Always-on/always-on-you devices provide three powerful fantasies: that we will always be heard;
that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be; and that we never have to be alone. Indeed,
our new devices have turned being alone into a problem that can be solved.
When people are alone, even for a few moments, they fidget and reach for a device. Here connection
works like a symptom, not a cure, and our constant, reflexive impulse to connect shapes a new way
of being.
Think of it as “I share, therefore I am.” We use technology to define ourselves by sharing our
thoughts and feelings as we’re having them. We used to think, “I have a feeling; I want to make a
call.” Now our impulse is, “I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.”
So, in order to feel more, and to feel more like ourselves, we connect. But in our rush to connect, we
flee from solitude, our ability to be separate and gather ourselves. Lacking the capacity for solitude,
we turn to other people but don’t experience them as they are. It is as though we use them, need
them as spare parts to support our increasingly fragile selves.
We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. If we are unable to
be alone, we are far more likely to be lonely. If we don’t teach our children to be alone, they will
know only how to be lonely.
I am a partisan for conversation. To make room for it, I see some first, deliberate steps. At home, we
can create sacred spaces: the kitchen, the dining room. We can make our cars “device-free zones.”
We can demonstrate the value of conversation to our children. And we can do the same thing at
work. There we are so busy communicating that we often don’t have time to talk to one another
about what really matters. Employees asked for casual Fridays; perhaps managers should introduce
conversational Thursdays. Most of all, we need to remember — in between texts and e-mails and
Facebook posts — to listen to one another, even to the boring bits, because it is often in unedited
moments, moments in which we hesitate and stutter and go silent, that we reveal ourselves to one
another.
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I spend the summers at a cottage on Cape Cod, and for decades I walked the same dunes
that Thoreau once walked. Not too long ago, people walked with their heads up, looking at
the water, the sky, the sand and at one another, talking. Now they often walk with their
heads down, typing. Even when they are with friends, partners, children, everyone is on their
own devices.
So, I say, look up, look at one another, and let’s start the conversation.
Task 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Xr3AsBEK4&t=223s
Watch it and understand what the speaker is trying to say then answer the following:
• Identify the main idea.
• How does the writer support the main idea? Enumerate the examples provided.
• According to the writer, what is the difference between “conversation and connection”? What does face-
to-face conversation teach us? How?
• What does “being alone together” mean? Cite specific instances.
• Explain the title. What does “flight from conversation” do to us?
• Explain the following lines: “We expect more from technology and less from one another…”
“I share, therefore I am.”
• What does the writer suggest so that we can make rooms for conversations?
• Do you agree with the writer? Explain your answer.
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YOUR ANSWER HERE:
The main idea of this talk is about how technology is rapidly advancing and that we have become
more and more connected to the online world than the real world and that we have become so addicted
to it, that we end up rejecting face-to-face relations in exchange for virtual ones, as we feel it easier and
more efficient.
The writer supported the main idea by giving examples of people’s experiences on technology and
one of them is her daughter.
“Conversation and connection” The difference between these two according to the writer is
that connection is more likely to be done in technology specifically on phones and it’s a way getting out
on human touch, on the other hand conversation is more in human relationship, it’s a bit messy and
demanding but that’s just how us humans are. Face to face conversation teaches us patience, it helps us
converse with ourselves and it also teaches us the feeling of friendliness or even love and it can even
boost your success in relationships. Using face to face conversation is a much better way for persuasion,
engagement, and leadership compared to using emails and phones.
Being alone together means that you’re with someone who you feel comfortable to be alone with
for instance your husband or wife. You’re alone with him/her together without anybody interfering.
“Flight from conversation’’ shows how modern technology makes people rather choose
conversation to a mere connection through emails, texts, and social media. It shows us how Important face
to face conversation is.
“We expect more from technology and less from one another…” means that we humans expect
technology to be there to us, to comfort us, to be there when we feel alone, and we are convinced that
we don’t need human interactions to feel comforted because there’s technology but no, how can we trust
an empathy by a mere robot who never experienced human life.
“I share, therefore I am.” We often go to our social media accounts and often share and posts
what we feel, for us to feel a little bit of relief and also to feel more about ourselves, but that makes us
more distant on gathering people who will be there for us. Because we thought that sustained connection
will make us feel less lonely.
The writer suggested that there are many ways in order to make a room for conversion. For
example, we can create sacred places at home, the kitchen, the dining room and we can also make our
cars a ‘’device-free zone.’’ We can also teach our children what the value of conversation is and we can
also apply it at work.
Yes, I strongly agree with Sherry Turkle since we now live in a place where everything is made in
technology and I can also relate to it as well because I can tell that I have become more and more
accustomed to technology when I’m having a rough time and I don’t usually go out and tell anyone my
problems and I think that’s kind of unhealthy to me. And that’s why I strongly agree with Sherry Turkle’s
claim.
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