D2-EWRT 2-S18
- 1. EWRT 2 Day 2 ONLINE LITERACY, CRITICAL THINKING, NEWS READING
- 2. Agenda Checking in Participation for today Upcoming participation assignments HW #1 Group Discussion Critical Thinking: why and how to teach it? Print Newspapers and Manjoo Journal 1 assignment How to study for the NYT quizzes HW for Monday CREM Info Sheet
- 3. OFFICE HOURS CANCELED: Tomorrow, Thurs, Apr 12 Monday, Apr 16 I will be on campus both days and I am available (as always) by email. I would also be available Monday morning for appointments.
- 4. Checking in 1. Got the book? 2. Sign up for NYT Evening Briefing? 3. How did the Discussion Forum post thing go? ◦ Need to clarify: you are asking a discussion question about the assigned readings on the syllabus. ◦ Not about the New York Times. ◦ Not a general discussion question. 4. Hey, how is Math?
- 5. What’s participation going to look like today? I will give up to 3 discussion points for today. --1 point for participating in the group activity we’ll do in a moment. (Sharing your HW 1 answers.) Up to 2 points for talking in class today. That means saying 2 things out loud in our full discussion. This could mean asking a question or answering a question. --It doesn’t have to be “right” or “brilliant.” It just needs to be a contribution. --If you say more than that, it won’t “count,” but please don’t let it stop you. --I will go out of my way to make sure that new voices get to speak. --At the end of class, you should turn in a sheet with a brief list of the two best things you said in class + whether you shared in the group. Brian Malone 4/11 1. Shared my answers to HW 1 in group. 2. Answered a question about the gun control tweet. 3. Asked about the difference between System 1 and System 2. Total: 3 It looks like this.
- 6. Upcoming Sources of Participation 1. HW2: Transfer Skills, Pt. 1 ◦ 10 points ◦ Make an office hours appointment with me before 2:30 on April 26 (end of Week 3). 2. Would you rather see your avatar in my slides? Email me bitmojis of you! ◦ www.bitmoji.com ◦ 1 point / bitmoji (limit 10 points).
- 7. HW Worksheet Go over it in groups. Talk about what you got for each answer and why. Do not change any answers! You’re mostly not being graded on the “right” answer here.
- 8. First off… DID ANYONE LOOK UP THE “STANFORD HISTORY EDUCATION GROUP”?
- 10. “Sponsored Content” What does “sponsored content” mean? What might sponsored content look like? Why should we be suspicious of sponsored content?
- 11. Sponsored Content vs. Native Advertising.
- 13. How might you approach a pic like this? WHAT QUESTIONS MIGHT YOU ASK?
- 14. Potential Questions Who took it? Can I tell? Where was it taken? How do I know? Was it manipulated? Can I tell? Who might want me to believe this is real? Why?
- 15. Part 3 Is this tweet a useful source of information? What did you say and why? What do you do need to do to evaluate whether this tweet seems reliable? What are the right questions to ask? What might have affected your willingness to do the necessary thinking to evaluate whether this tweet is a useful source of information?
- 16. Strong vs. Weak Critical Thinking Strong-sense Using critical thinking to question all beliefs and opinions—especially your own. Ex: “Why do I think that gun control will work? Are there better solutions? Have I examined the evidence to support this?” Weak-sense Using critical thinking to defend beliefs that you already have. Ex: “I know I’m right to support gun control, because here are the weaknesses of all of the arguments against it!”
- 17. Part 4: Website Evaluation Which did you evaluate as more reliable? And why? How did you come to that conclusion?
- 18. American Academy of Pediatrics -Founded in 1930 -64,000 members -“It has the largest pediatric publishing program in the world, with more than 300 titles for consumers and over 500 for physicians and other health-care professionals. These publications include electronic products, professional references/textbooks, practice management publications, patient education materials and parenting books.” -Including a flagship medical journal, Pediatrics, that (as far as I can tell) has a respectable “Impact Factor” (not much lower than the Journal of the American Medical Association).
- 19. American College of Pediatricians -Founded in 2002 -Est. 500 members -Founder Joseph Zanga has described it as a group "with Judeo-Christian, traditional family values that is open to pediatric medical professionals of all religions" provided that they "hold true to the group's core beliefs: that life begins and conception; and that the traditional family unit, headed by an opposite-sex couple, poses far fewer risk factors in the adoption and raising of children." -Support for (among other things): ◦ Abstinence-only sex ed. ◦ Spanking -The Southern Poverty Law Center (an organization that tracks white supremacist and other hate groups) notes that the ACP has "a history of propagating damaging falsehoods about LGBT people, including linking homosexuality to pedophilia"
- 20. Critical Thinking as a SKILL Why is critical thinking important? ◦ Why does Levitin think it matters? ◦ Daniel F.: How do you explain Edgar Welch? ◦ Based on the exercises from HW #1. ◦ Based on own experience (Lisa’s question). How did you do? How could you have done better? Critique your performance in a brief freewrite. How can we teach critical thinking in schools? ◦ At what age? In what classes? How? (Nicole, Lilie). ◦ In groups, come up with a set of a few general rules or strategies that would help HIGH SCHOOL students do well on this homework task. ◦ How would you teach them to apply these rules or strategies?
- 21. Manjoo: “For Two Months…” What did Manjoo do? What drastic action did he take? What are some of the reasons he says he did this? ◦ Marvin: “the digitization of news is ruining how we collectively process information.” He ends up with three instructions: ◦ Get news. ◦ Not too quickly. ◦ Avoid social. For each of these instructions: ◦ Why? ◦ What are the benefits? Can we follow this without actually reading print? (And still save trees, Kass!) Jasmin: How do you read the news? Sara: Would you rather read your news from the newspaper or online? Why? Esmeralda: Could we ever go back to print? Dean: If we only had print, would you (personally) follow the news less? Eric: Why is it so hard to stay off our phones? ◦ Could you turn off your phone? ◦ What’s the longest you’ve gone without it? ◦ Kenny: “What other activities would you be able to accomplish in your everyday life if you were only allowed to use your cell phone for educational/business purposes?” Drew: Isn’t social media getting better? Sylvina: How do you learn about the stories that aren’t covered?
- 22. Writing Journal 1 (Due Monday on Canvas) If I were writing this, what would I talk about? My daily news habits: ◦ NYT app and “Evening Briefing” ◦ New Yorker app Example of a story I’ve been following and what I’ve learned: Cohen story ◦ Facts from NYT ◦ Analysis and opinion from New Yorker What I’ve avoided: social media. ◦ My old habits. ◦ Why I’ve recently made this move. Might mention how this fits with Manjoo. Do I feel well-informed? Yes and no. ◦ Yes, about national events. ◦ No, about local news. (Give an example.) Why is this good/bad? ◦ Effect on my mental health. ◦ Informed participant in national community ◦ Don’t feel like I have the luxury to be blissfully ignorant. ◦ Teacher, voter, activist. ◦ Less connected to my local community. Not ideal. ◦ What could I do about this?
- 23. How to study for the NYT quizzes Read the whole “Evening Briefing” email. The last 3-4 stories are usually not really important. They’re often entertainment, science, or lifestyle news. Sometimes, they’re in-depth news analysis. But you probably only need to click through to read these if you’re personally interested. For the other 6-7 stories, make sure you know— in general—what’s going on. This might mean you click through and read a bit more. ◦ Major people involved. ◦ Countries, corporations, branches of government involved. ◦ “Plot” of the story: what is happening? ◦ Why does it matter to our lives? Be able to summarize each story in a few sentences. Once you know something about a story, you’ll often be able to quickly understand the new developments in that story over the next few days. The quiz each Wednesday will cover information from the previous five days (Wed, Thu, Fri, Mon, Tues). The next slide is an example from last year (I’ll talk you through it).
- 24. New York Times Evening Briefing Quiz! (from 4/19/17) 1. Why is the US putting pressure on North Korea? What is yesterday’s controversy about the US aircraft carrier group that was sent to the Sea of Japan last week? 2. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had a meeting last week with Vladimir Putin, who is the President of which country? They talked about recent US missile strikes in which Middle Eastern country? 3. Last week, the US dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb in which country? What is the nickname of the bomb? 4. Arkansas is trying to take a certain action against 8 people before the end of April. What is that state trying to do? 5. The Prime Minister of England called for a new election in June as a referendum on last year’s Brexit vote. What is Brexit?
- 25. Stuff to do. -Go over Journal 1 -HW #3 -Check Canvas for the reading and homework for Monday. -Fill out your participation slip for today (don’t forget to put your name on it!). -CREM Info Sheet Brian Malone 4/11 1. Shared my answers to HW 1 in group. 2. Answered a question about the gun control tweet. 3. Asked about the difference between System 1 and System 2. Total: 3