Double Entry Journal #13

Ten Personal Solutions to Global Warming

This just states ten things you can do to help stop global warming and every person that does it, is helping to prevent global warming and creating a healthier environment.

Double Journal Entry #12

1. Why do educators need to be careful about  terms like "Digital Native"? A majority of the students may possess a core set of technology-based skills but they are in a very diverse range of skills and skill levels that exist across the student population

2. What outcome occurs when young people are encourage to transform their understanding of particular topics by designing a multimodal text? Positive and enhanced outcomes have been reported

3. You may skip the section titled "Context for the Project".

4. What was the goal of the project in terms of product? It was to track the development of the participants' multimodal literacies over a two-year period by comparing tow multimodal products created at the beginning and end of the period.

5. What was the goal of the project in terms of process? It was to gain a deeper understanding oh how multimodal texts were created, especially when the students were working in pairs at the computer.

6. How were the participants from the study selected? They were students who had worked collaboratively in pairs, who fully completed the task, and the video recordings were intact and complete.

7.  Describe the task students engage is for the purpose of this study? They were to complete a concept map to organize information acquired from web sources and a decision making matrix to facilitate transformation of the ideas in their concept map ino a preferred solution, as required for their multimodal text. Then following these preparatory stages, the students could create a multimodal text using a word processor, a presentation tool, or a web publishing program.

8. Explain how the researchers compared the student created multimodal texts? They evaluated the title slide/page, the headings, and the knowledge representation of each multimodal text in terms of design, content, and cohesion.

9. What differences in Jenny's PowerPoint presentation do you find the most interesting? I find that her color scheme changes is very interesting especially for a kid because I would of thought that a student old would use the same colors as 2 years ago.

10. How is working together on a computer unlike working together using a pencil and paper? 1. While typed words may appear immediately on scree, there is ofter a considerable wait time between the keying in of the instruction and a response from the computer. 2. The length of the wait time in unpredictable and may be several minutes. 3. The result the computer provides to an instruction is often unexpected, as in the selection and the ordering of items located in a web search.

11. What was interesting about student's behavior as they collaborated on a task at the computer? The students would start talking while waiting on the computer and they would talk about the task or something unrelated but the computer would eventually signal by the completion of a response to a command which would bring them back to the task at hand,

12. What can teacher learn about designing learning activities that involve the creation of multimodal texts from this study? That they need to teach traditional skills, time management skills and  maintaining a task.

13. According the the conclusion of this study, what do student need to learn in order to successful complete a multimodal text construction? Students need to learn more traditional skills, time management skills and  maintaining a task.

14. Are you surprised by the conclusions drawn in this study? Yes

Double Entry Journal #11

1. Why are networks better than hierarchies? Information moves faster in networks because in hierarchies it has to move all the way to the top and the networks adapt to change faster.

2. What is a nation state and how is it being threatened? The nation state is a territorial concept defined by a geographical border. What is happening now is the two big forces will yank the economic system and the environmental system increasingly outside national borders.

3. How is civil society gaining legitimacy over government agencies? Give an example of a NGO (Non-Government Agency) whose goals and services you think are beneficial to solving a global problem. It's increasingly deft use of new technologies.
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4. How can business be a helpful global enforcer? It's easier for businesses to look ahead and learn of an issue quicker.

5. What can too much economic and social change lead too? It can lead to political backlash, autarchy, and authoritarian forms of control that can destroy liberal values and human freedoms.

6. What Global Issue concerns you the most? Why? The Global Issue that concerns me the most is world hunger because all these countries are in need of food and it is even happening in the United States. All these people have plenty of food but no one can spare a can food item. It is just terrible that no one helps even with all the extra food that they might have. Each person could donate at least one can a month and it would make a huge difference.

Double Entry Journal #8

1. What was the term "Digital Native" meant to be used as? It was originally meant to be used as a metaphor for describing the differences that many people observed between older people and younger people at the turn of the century.

2. According to author what are the characteristics associated with Digital Natives? Easy-going

3. Do you consider yourself a Digital Native? I believe so because I grew up while technology was growing so I use it daily and frequently. I rely on it way to much.

4. What is Digital Wisdom? It is the acceptance of digital enhancements as an integral part of human existence.

5. How does the author define "wisdom"? Efficiently using technology.

6. How can technology enhance our Wisdom? Give three examples from the chapter? It enhances our access to data, our access to alternate perspective, and our ability to plan and prioritize.

7. What concerns did Socrates have about the technology of writing? Socrates feared that writing would diminish our memories.

8. How can teachers practices Digital Wisdom? They can use the technology in the classroom as it advances that way they learn from it as it comes and goes.

9. The author states that he is "...opposed to those who claim the unenhanced mind and unaided thinking are somehow superior to the enhanced mind." Are you? Why or why not? I am opposed to this because I think you have to understand the enhanced mind way to be able to learn more just because there is more to learn with new styles coming in.

Quote

“I believe digital technology can be used to make us not just smarter but truly wiser.”

Response

I feel that this quote is very strong in saying that technology will help us learn and become smarter, but it will help us grow as a civilization and that will have everyone using technologies to help every daily life with learning new things. Digital technology is always growing and it is now becoming the way we learn and it will make us smarter and wiser. 

Picture

This picture shows some digital technology that is used in everyone's daily life. If you need to find something on google you can use your phone now which just helps you learn something on the spot. The laptops are used to write papers, learn new things over the internet and much much more.

Resources

http://www.ibn-tv.com/2012/03/tanzanians-challenged-to-adopt-digital-technology/

Photo and Questions

1. What is healthy dieting?
2. Do you have a healthy diet?
3. Can we help others to eat healthier.
4. Is Obesity hereditary?
5. What can we eat to make healthier diet choices?

Concerned Obama

People	Objects	Activities
Obama	frowning	concerned
	scowling	thinking
		wondering

 

1. Based on what you have observed list three things you might infer from the photograph.

-There is something he is thinking hard about.

- Is he deciding on what to do about a bill

- Did he just hear some bad news.

2. Read the article title and photo caption.

3. What questions do the caption and article title raise in your mind? What is he going to do with the oil crisis.

4. Post the answer to these questions and the photo in a blog posting.

Action Obama

People	Objects	Activities
Obama	walking	discussion
BP workers	boat	working
Crew members		Taking Action
white house staff

 

1. Based on what you have observed list three things you might infer from the photograph.

-He is getting work done with people.

-He is visiting the coast guard

-Taking Action

2. Read the article title and photo caption.

3. What questions do the caption and article title raise in your mind? Who is the President with and what is he doing 4. Which picture gives you more confidence in the presidents leadership abilities? Why? Concerned Obama because he is hit with hard news and he is thinking about what needs to be done but he is also concerned at the same time. This to me shows compassion towards the country.

5. Do you think the editors of these news papers have a liberal or conservative bias? Why? How could you find out? Yes I could have my students do research to finding out about it and show how they are biased either liberal or conservative.

Double Entry Journal #7

1. Choose one of the unprecedented stresses on the earth resources and describe how it will negatively effect the quality of life of people living in developing countries and people living in modernized countries. The population will grow massively in which it will make  us use a lot more energy, two or three times more and that could cause serious problems.

2. What is the major debate around the future of market-based economies? The only real debate is about how to balance the basic market oriented approach with this or that regulatory feature or social safety policy.

3. How has this technological revolution different the previous technological revolutions and what two factors of production and now more important than capital, labor and raw materials? Knowledge and Creativity

4. What new service ideas have you had direct experience with? Drawing on your personal experience what are the benefits and drawbacks of these new service ideas? My cell phone because they are just getting more advanced year after year. They started out just to make phone calls and then texting and now playing games, having an app store, surfing the web, take care of your bank accounts, GPS and much much more. The better the phone the more it costs which hurts the economy.

Quote
"There will be some sixty cities with more than 5 million inhabitants."

Response
This quote has me thinking about all these people living in one city. There are obviously not enough jobs for all these people and there probably isn't enough food for these people and this is technically one city with this problem and some sixty others as well. Everything goes up in costs if there is more people even though they can't afford, if it is from cost of living to making car payments it is just to crowded for all the people which would hurt the majority of the people living in these cities.

Picture
This picture is of an overcrowded subway which if the population keeps growing the subways will just become even more crowded and it might just be a waste of time to wait in line just to be in an overcrowded cart.

Sources
- http://www.urlesque.com/2011/04/06/crowded-subways-video/

Seven Power Lens on 21st Century Literacy

Quote

"News and its images are always selected truth."

Response

This quote says a lot for such a small sentence but it means that the news and media can select how the viewers or audience views the news. They will always show what the want to show that way people will have a false sense of whats actually going on. If a war is going on in another country they will show one side of it because that would be the side they want the public to think they are right in going  in to war and the other side is just ruthless barbarians. The news can manipulate many minds with a single image. They can tear down politicians, athletes, movie stars, even local workers with hardly any hard evidence to back up a single photo.

Article

This is an article about a news station that is based on doing the news about whats really going on in Africa, Asia and other countries but the U.S. won't air because they believe our news stations always covers the whole story in these countries.

Questions

1.What is semiotics? Semiotics is the study of how the reading of signs and symbols together
communicate complicated ideas in the form of codes.

 2. How can teachers capitalize on students preferred literacy behaviors?Use social media sights to them about stuff going on in the world.

 3. According to this article why is it important for students to learn to analyze the news media? It is important because of what the media says is one thing but the truth might be something else, that way they can analyze and discover the truth.

 4. Copy and Paste a West Virginia CSO that a photo analysis activity might address in a content area.
RLA.S.10.1Reading

Students will apply reading skills and strategies to inform, to perform a task and to read for literacy experience by ·         identifying and using grade appropriate essential reading components (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, written application) and ·         selecting a wide variety of literature and diverse media to develop independence as readers.