To spend a day at a university as a Neo-Luddite would make everything so much more difficult, especially with the increase of technology within education.
A Neo-Luddite is some one who is opposed to technology and thinks that its not necessarily for society to function.
So your a Neo-Luddite and you get up to go to University ready to go to your first lecture, with out the use of a computer in your room/home you would not be able to check emails or black board to see if there has been any changes to the days schedule, therefore a lecture could be canceled or a room change could of occurred, leaving you standing outside the lecture room not knowing of any kinds of changes. So once you realise its either been canceled or moved, you decide to head to the library to kill some time before the next lecture.
You get to the library and have difficulty using the search engine to find the books you need, the books you should have gotten out last week to read for this next seminar. After spending ages trying to work the university search engine you go to get help from a library assistant, after them having to explain it to you for the second time, you finally find the books.
So you head to the next lecture ready to get on with what ever is required, however its not that easy, your lecture is in a computer room and you are expected to know how to work a computer, you go in any everyone is either on facebook or myspace, not really knowing what these sites are, You ask the person next to you, they just look at you like your crazy and laugh.
You see your friends you made from the previous weeks lecture, there all talking about the night out they had, which you where not invited to, as no one knew how to contact you. Therefore you feel left out of the conversation. Your homework for this week is to read an online article and write notes about it, to discuss next week. Meaning another long day will have to spent in the library trying to work the computers and find the source your meant to read.
You have one more seminar before you have an hour break for lunch, you arrange with your friends to meet them all at the pub on campus after your seminar. You show up and can't see them anywhere, you stand around for ten minutes and give up and go home, your friends decided to go into town instead but had no way of telling you.
So you decide to go home rather than wait about on your own, as you feel rubbish and let down, you then get a headache and don't go to your afternoon seminar, but can't email the lecture or text your friends to ask them to tell the teachers. All in all its a pretty rubbish day.
This shows just a few of the difficulties a Neo-Luddite would run into in a normal day at University and there are hundreds more that could occur. Its not just the communication aspect that would become a big problem, but the actual learning for the course, I.e. the online sources that have to be read, the use of computers and different software in seminars and practical meetings.
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