the core spirit of the journey we’ve taken you on will always be accessible as long as you have an Internet connection.
So cool
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Your peers are often your best teachers, and through peer review
Unfortunately true, though will still never like it
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This is especially important when you advance into the particular field of study in which you will focus your future career, where through “reading like a writer” you can learn and start to internalize the specific expectations, norms, and vocabulary of that field of study.
Exactly what I was hoping for in this class
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Write brief summaries of each stage of thought or if appropriate each paragraph, mirroring the article’s order.
Never tried this, really forces you to actually absorb info.
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Give specific examples and explain how the source compares with other sources in your bibliography
Good place to organize opposing view points and ways to counter them.
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they are forced to read each source more carefully understanding the source on its own in relationship the assignment and other sources.
Perfect way to find out if a source is actually helpful to your writing.
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summary, assessment, and reflection for each source.
Easy way to recall sources without having to find them in the scattered writing process.
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annotations of a source.
Not my favorite part of the writing process but definitely helpful.
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create a mind map
Haven't used a mind map in a long time, interested to see if I like it better than trad outlining or not.
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Creating your Healthy Information Ecosystem
Good step by step of how to tackle any bias
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Happy editing!
Don't think I've ever felt happy while editing, but I like the enthusiasm.
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there is no one perfect source
Good reminder
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But if we add parentheses and search for (“Early childhood” OR pediatric OR infant) AND obesity:
Most helpful explanation
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“peer review,”
Even with peer review can a source still be untrustworthy?
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After reading “Why Historical Thinking is NOT about History,” use evidence from the article to discuss why it is important to carefully evaluate the credibility of a source. What could be some consequences of spreading misinformation?
Wineburg discusses the fact that while researching on Google people can fall into a herd mentality, the more popular an article the more credible it becomes. The concern, of course, becomes even if a source has no evidence to back it up, it can still be regarded widely as a "good" source, leading to a large group of people believing and relaying false info. Right now the most obvious example of this is A.I use. At this point the vast majority of the public have become "slaves to the machine" as Wineburg put it. By the spreading of misinformation especially right now, we see a lot of people fall into negative or hateful ideology because simply believing what we see without researching leaves us vulnerable to hate.
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What type of authority does the author have? How do they show this?
Seeing a lot of people using some sort of degree as a way to back up statements they have to knowledge on
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you have to always consider whether or not you believe it, and why
Critical thinking, annoying can make you have to do more research to work out if a source is credible or not :(
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Google search results are heavily influenced by algorithms, keywords, advertisements, and even social biases
Does this not impede researching if a person could only be getting sources for their position?
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AND will limit your search. OR will expand it.
Cool
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YouTube and other social media
How can one include social media while still maintaining credibility?
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Concept 3:
Decline in reading rates
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Concept 2:
Book bans in school libraries
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Concept 1:
Topic bans in schools
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To what degree is renewable energy a possible solution to global warming in California?
Nice to see example questions
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search engines or databases
JSTOR will probably be one of the best to use for this class
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“fake news.”
Harry Styles reference, deep lore
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also recognize and keep track of your stance as you research
Easy to get original idea lost in research
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To what extent can these discrepancies be blamed on the general public or should it be blamed on big gov not taking actual care to educate students?
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The government leaves schools like this so citizens are uninformed, left to blame each other at the smaller level so nothing gets acomplished.
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Nothing is really being done to make education cohesive across America
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Pre-writing Activity: Draft your Inquiry Question1.
How does politics in school impede a students learning about simple subject, math, english, science, ect
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“Who” is the best candidate, or “What” is the best social system, these are based on opinion and perspective but generally have a single answer—“In my opinion, Mickey Mouse is the best candidate . . .” or “The best social system is Capitalism”—and the conversation is effectively over.
See a lot of this currently, people are too obsessed with the "self" right now.
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we mean the questions that get beneath the surface of a problem, questions such as
Sometimes difficult to ask these questions when we know they will have uncomfortable answers.
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our goal is to make the conversation interesting enough that readers will want to get involved in it
Interesting point, we see a lot of the same questions or conversations going around and they lose meaning by the end of it all.
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any question that elicits a single-word answer is . . . boring
Good reminder
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meaningful Inquiry Question changes and gets revised
Sometimes difficult to revise a point you may have gone in feeling very strongly about
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research the issue is authentic.
How can this be done for topics that people don't have a personal connection to?
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Choose one of these issues to discuss: Why or how would your research of this issue represent an example of “intrinsic motivation” for you?
Women's rights, at my job I'm talked down to a lot by men. Seeing every woman in my life be disregarded or embarrassed by men is tiring and I want change.
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What are some personal experiences you have that relate to larger social issues?
Treated poorly for being a woman-women's rights, treated differently for skin tone-poc rights, unable to attend four year college/afford housing on my own-income disparities.
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Freire created “culture circles” which based the learning and practice of reading and writing on the issues that his students faced every day of their lives.
Wish this was more common, older generations talk about young people not caring about the world around them but they don't have many spaces where the problems they face are addressed.
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Meaningful research involves using the reading and writing strategies we’ve outlined earlier to investigate your own topics that can help you address issues that you and others like you experience, or even think about everyday.
Can meaningful research lead a person to negative ideologies?
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College research should be driven by open-ended questions that seek to expose real issues or problems occurring in the daily lives of a particular group of people or populations.
Usually see papers on the same 5 topics
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academic research that is important to people and changes the world
Excited to start the end of term paper on our topic, love these kinds of papers
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sources.
Each objective I've explored in pervious classes, I wonder if this will bring new ideas to me?
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