Response to Selfe

Response to Cynthia Selfe

In the essay that Cynthia Selfe wrote called “Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution”, she draws a big focus on the change of technology, and how we are adjusting to all these changes. She really explains how everything is changing and how were all adapting and dealing with this differences that are rapidly changing our everyday lives. In her essay, “Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution”, Selfe states, “Like most Americans, however, even though educators have made these adaptations, we remain decidedly undecided about technology and change. At one level, we believe in the pairing; we believe in the computer’s power, and we believe strongly in the beneficial ways that technology promises to improve our lives.” With her passage from her article, I can see she is making a good point. Basically Selfe is saying that educators have adapted to the technological changes we are facing in the world today and the rest of us remain undecided about it. Some thoughts that Selfe may be saying are most definitely not proven facts. She makes the assumption that most all educators are adapted to new technology and most everyone else is unsure about it.

From the second narrative, the main focus is really about our connection to technology. She talks about accessing and our opportunity we have with this technology, which I think was mainly focused on Internet and computer ideas. I think Selfe’s ideas in her passage are mistaken because she is using her own opinion rather than actual facts to support her claim. How is she to know that most all educators have adapted to technology. Also how is she to know for sure that “we” meaning the rest of Americans are undecided about technology and change.

The countering strategy I used was “Arguing the Other Side.” I felt like this strategy was appropriate because in Selfes essay she uses her own opinion to support her idea. This strategy is best for this passage because it gives me the chance to contradict her claim because I feel like there are many educators that have not adapted and many Americans who most definitely have.