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  1. Nov 2020
    1. black-boxed technologies

      I am having a hard time understanding black-boxed technologies. What are they? Is it the search networks? Apps for schools?

    2. As students move through a variety of digital information sources, they generally do not notice the changing contexts and nature of the information providers, and they do not see the infrastructure and labor involved in the creation and maintenance of those sources. The results obtained from quick keyword searches on Google, Bing, or other search portals are typically unquestioned in terms of their validity, value, and persistence.

      Information changes so much everyday. We, students and society, don't see when it is changed or where this new information came from. We just go along with it because in this generation all search apps are ALWAYS right. Our class searched the word "beautiful" on different search networks. Google when we searched the word up, it showed us different beautiful women but when we search it up on Yahoo beautiful landscapes popped up. So definitely for Google you have to type exactly what you want to see or it would show you something different.

    1. Right after the election, when you did a search for election news on Google, it returned sites that discussed how Donald Trump won the popular vote—which we know is absolutely false. But because people are clicking on it, it’s profitable. It begs the question, how does misrepresentative information make it to the top of the search result pile—and what is missing in the current culture of software design and programming that got us here?

      I honestly didn't know that the news on Google were stating that Donald Trump won the popular vote. Google has been the number one reliable sources for everything and the fact that these kind of fake websites were created kind of makes me have second thoughts about using google.

    1. Proper provision of time, expertise and resource to support their efforts, and sincere and enthusiastic celebration of their success, might partly determine the extent of the social sciences’ participation in recovery. This can be expensive but it is an investment worth making for a better – and more evidence-based – future.

      The fourth priority for shaping the post-pandemic world is Incentives. I completely agree with what this passage talks about. The passage explains how research education is expensive but its an investment for the future. Our future is very important. Especially with this pandemic happening we need our best researchers to prevent another pandemic like this.

    2. Part of rehabilitating social science expertise is getting better at tracking, evaluating and describing the impacts of social science research. It’s typically hard to draw even correlative, let alone causal links between specific impacts and specific social science research, making it hard to prove the nature and value of the contribution that research makes.

      The third priority for shaping the post-pandemic world is Credibility. I'm having a hard time understanding the word credibility if I'm being honest. Is it giving credit to the researchers? From what I understood from the little section that described credibility is that researchers have had a lot to deal with in the past decade but didn't do their best in tracking, evaluating and describing any research found??? If I'm wrong please correct me.

    3. However, it’s perhaps especially problematic for social scientists because most people don’t really know who they are or what they do. If we want communities, businesses and policy-makers to recognise the contributions that social sciences make, we need to improve our visibility.

      The second priority for shaping the post-pandemic world is Visibility. At the beginning when COVID-19 first became publicly, I was still missed informed. I had no idea what was happening, I was just happy school was going to be closed. Then little by little I see in the news, on my social media pages how bad this virus was and is. COVID-19 was the topic everyone would talk about. I honestly think that COVID-19 could of been prohibited but we were all missed informed and it wasn't very publicized in the beginning.

  2. Sep 2020
    1. when choosing community building activities that ask students to disclose information about themselves, and especially about how they are feeling, it is important to recognise the risk of unintended harm.

      Most faculty in a teaching setting chooses to do certain activities that can make a student very uncomfortable. In high school my teachers would do "icebreakers" and I would hate them because that meant I would have to talk in front of people and sometimes the topic would be a little too personal.