Critical Thinking:
As I work more and more at my resort and see coworkers come and go I can't help but realize how important critical thinking is. I don't want to write a full essay in the discussion session, but if anyone reading this thinks they lack critical thing skills please work on them because i the real world those skills are more important than a GPA. GPA's are still important so don't go failing, but I am sure you get my point.
An example would be a situation where, as a student gathers experience and time with a concept, he or she earns points that are tracked either manually or automatically. With gamification, teachers can manage, motivate and engage their students by transforming their classroom into a role-playing game.
I wish I thought about this for the online discussion, all I spoke about was grades when I could've also thrown in team work.
The Oregon Trail is one of the earliest instances of game-based-learning (GBL), an approach to education where students explore subject-relevant video games with defined learning outcomes.
I think having games like this are very important for some students.
“We are being racially profiled by a platform that doesn’t allow us to even declare our own race and ethnicity,” she told me. “What does that mean to not allow culture and ethnicity to be visible in the platform?”
This is a very true statement.... I wouldn't want google telling me I am something I am not based off of statistics that don't even matter.
Our search histories were littered with topics like web development, finance, and sci-fi. In other words, we searched like men. Or at least, that’s what Google thought.
It is a little odd that google would do this in the first place. I understand why, but why would they also make it so people could see. Can google predict how much controversy it will cause?
Google listed the age range and gender it thought you were. It thought I was a man, and somewhere between 35 and 44. I was 28.
I never knew google did this. It also surprised me that facebook has a section that tell you what political party you were apart of.
“People there are a bit more tired of attending meetings and not seeing anything done,” Holliday said. “But I don’t think anyone’s tried in the way and the direction we’re coming from,” with providing financial and training incentives. “This is important work and it deserves to be compensated accordingly.”
When it comes down to it there is only so much that can be done in a short time span. I am going to assume that most of the requests being made are things that can't be fixed over night. But there should be a way to show the people that there is at least an effort being made.
City Bureau is trying to make public hearings matter again — or at least, noted by the public and somewhat reported on — and is bringing its approach to a new city for the first time.
Listening to the public is very important and there is a lot that can be learned. I also want to point out that it is only beneficial to a certain extent.
Statistics are an often-abused tool in data science. “Fatal shark attacks have risen 100% this year” sounds like an alarming statistic until you realize that only one person was fatally attacked by a shark last year. Check the raw numbers when data visualizations present only the statistics.
This is a very important one and it is also sort of comedic with the example used. Overall it is important to not immediately trust something due to its visual appeal and to do further research.
Color is one popular tool for making certain data stand out above the rest. When considering the map below, Kentucky and Utah (the darkest and the lightest) will most likely stand out to us first.
This is a big one that I often see used.
data visualizations can easily be manipulated to lie.
Why exactly would it be manipulated?
Faced with an unprecedented torrent of information, data scientists have turned to the visual arts to make sense of big data. The result of this unlikely marriage–often called “data visualizations” or “infographics”–has repeatedly provided us with new and insightful perspectives on the world around us.
Overall I like the idea of an article like this and am happy to see one has been made. I have never even thought this in depth about false information of this kind being spread.
“Outrage is good for business,” says Mr. Harris, who now runs Time Well Spent, a nonprofit that seeks to “align technology with our humanity.”
I can definitely see why he says this. If something helps make a company money they are going to keep doing it.
Research shows that people are more likely to share content that elicits outrage, something that social media platforms facilitate by letting you share your anger with your peers, say, by tapping on a scowling emoji.
This is very interesting because I don't do this, but I most certainly see it all of the time. The things that cause most outrage on social media involve politics though and I steer clear of that.
“I think it's crucial that we understand how new technologies might be changing the way that we experience and express moral emotions like outrage,”
This is something that is very important to understand and it is very interesting to see what things do.
There’s a saying common in education circles: Don’t teach students what to think; teach them how to think.
This quote really stands out to me because having a teacher that outwardly shows biases whether I agree with them or not ruins the class.
The ultimate aim, it seems, is to turn campuses into “safe spaces” where young adults are shielded from words and ideas that make some uncomfortable.
If this is the ultimate aim it's a bad one. Shielding a child can be good at times, but there comes a time to where someone needs to see what the world is really like. If people are shielded forever they will simply become ignorant.
The installation gave examples of microaggressions such as “Aren’t you supposed to be good at math?” and “I’m colorblind! I don’t see race.” But a backlash arose among other Asian American students, who felt that the display itself was a microaggression. The association removed the installation, and its president wrote an e-mail to the entire student body apologizing to anyone who was “triggered or hurt by the content of the microaggressions.”
This is a great example for the last question I posted. Yes one student is tired of people asking them if they are good at math, but outwardly saying that is a micro aggression insulting other students like them. I support the student standing up for themselves and think the others are too sensitive.
Two terms have risen quickly from obscurity into common campus parlance. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless.
Are these things students should really try to avoid or are people becoming more sensitive?
Fake news stories can have real-life consequences. On Sunday, police said a man with a rifle who claimed to be "self-investigating" a baseless online conspiracy theory entered a Washington, D.C., pizzeria and fired the weapon inside the restaurant. So, yes, fake news is a big problem.
One new importance that is slowly rising is stopping the spread of fake news. If it isn't stopped then ignorance will only spread.
The idea is that people should have a fundamental sense of media literacy. And based on a study recently released by Stanford University researchers, many people don't.
How do people decide whether or not people have a fundamental sense of media literacy?
Established news organizations usually own their domains and they have a standard look that you are probably familiar with. Sites with such endings like .com.co should make you raise your eyebrows and tip you off that you need to dig around more to see if they can be trusted.
Does this statement mean the same thing when a student is looking for biased information?
A picture should be accurate in illustrating what the story is about. This often doesn't happen. If people who write these fake news stories don't even leave their homes or interview anyone for the stories, it's unlikely they take their own pictures.
Pictures are often things that grab peoples attention in the first place, which is why people will often get fake ones to bait people into going deeper into the topic or article. It's just as important to have reliable pictures because that is a key piece to good evidence.
If you do these steps, you're helping yourself and you're helping others by not increasing the circulation of these stories.
It is more than important to not spread fake stories because the last thing the world needs is more ignorance.
Here's one last thing. Satirical publications exist and serve a purpose, but are clearly labeled as exaggerated and humorous by the writers and owners. Some of the more well-known ones like The Onion and ClickHole use satire to talk about current events. If people don't understand that, they might share these articles after reading them in the literal sense.
Satires can be a really good way to learn about things going on in the world because they do make you think harder about the situation because you see it from a satirical viewpoint.
Overall after reading the entire article there was a lot to be learned but the biggest question that kept coming to my mind is do people consider news fake when it differs from their viewpoints? Viewpoints are one of the biggest things that keep people separate, mainly political viewpoint.