What are the main visual elements?
The main visual elements are the family of three sitting eating dinner. The son is in the middle and his parents are asking how his school day was.
What issue is this cartoon about?
This cartoon is about how technology takes over kid's lives and is used as a substitution for speaking instead. The parents are asking the son how his day went and he obviously said something like this, "Instead of me telling you how my day went you can just read my blog and find out." The parents don't like how their kids are becoming lazy.
What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
The cartoonist's opinion is that us students should spend so much time on computers and other technologies when we should spend it on doing school work and playing outside or other sports. If a kid goes to the extent to say that my school day description is on my blog it means that computers are consuming us.
What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?
The evidence in the cartoon that supports the cartoonist's opinion is the look on the boy's parent's faces; they look dumbfounded. They are surprised that their kid has a blog to skip the retelling of the school day. They are also surprised that their child is very connected to the computer and have no other life besides it.
Why is this cartoon ironic?
The two main reasons that this cartoon is ironic are:
- Kids that age don't usually have a blog; I am thirteen and I don't have a blog unrelated to school
- If kids had a blog, then they don't usually tell their parent's to check their blog
How does this cartoon relate to our study of technology and the future?
This cartoon relates to our study of technology because it shows us how the people of this generation are overusing the internet for unneeded things like blogs about our school day. They could be used for reference, but the intention was not to make a person become lazy.
What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
I think that the only thing that tell me about the cartoon are the words. To make it more persuasive, the cartoonist could have made the parent's expressions a little more surprised and have the son have his chin on his hands to show he is too lazy to tell his parents about his day.
