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Double Entry Journal #14

1. What is the purpose of this chapter?
The purpose of this chapter is to look closer to the term "digital literacy" as a way  of understanding how young people relate to the digital culture they live in, and the role of education in developing their knowledge and skills.

2.Why did the author choose to focus on your people in the Nordic countries?
He chose Nordic countries because  of the penetration of technologies in all aspects of society coupled with a high degree of access among young people. There is a public and political awareness about the importance of digital literacy related to education and not such a strong emphasis  on testing as in many other countries. So this could very well be the land of the digital natives.

3. How does education differ in Nordic countries from education in other parts of the world including the United States?
Nordic countries dont have a good education like we do. We are better organized  and prepared for what is coming but Nordic countries are just getting started on the foundation of education.

4. Why is more research needed about how young people use digital media in their lives outside of school?
Most research is on digital media with young people inside of the schools you dont really hear much about digital media outside of school. You cant completely understand digital media unless you research it both outside and inside of school.

5. Why is it important for there to be more opportunities for young people to use Digital Media in school?
 Technology changes everyday. So if we put digital media in the school the children will have more knowledge about technology for the future and it will expand their knowledge.

6.What skills do people need in order to be considered digitally literate?
They need to order to recognize different technologies. And learn how to use them in their proper instructions.

Double Entry Journal #13

Solution to global warming.

Double Entry Journal #12

1. Why do educators need to be careful about terms like "Digital Native"?
It leads to an understanding of a whole generation as a homeogeneous group.

2. What outcome occurs when young people are encourage to transform their understanding of particular topics by designing a multimodal text?
It can enhance the learning process. This recognition of the importance of developing young people's creative and critical  productions with technology signals the need for closer attention by researchers and educators to the actual products that young people create in their learning activities.

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


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

5. What was the goal of the project in terms of process?
It is to gain a deeper understanding of how multimodal texts were created.

6. How were the participants for the study selected?
They were able  to track 115 students studying the subject Study of Society and the Environment from years 8 and 10 to years 10 and 12.

7. Describe the task students engage is for the purpose of this study?
They have to use their minds to figure it out so its a learning experience.

8. Explain how the researchers compared the student created multimodal texts?
They did it by each year.

9. What differences in Jenny's Powerpoint presentation do you find the most interesting?
Each slide on the powerpoint is way more detailed then the other. 

10. How is working together on a computer unlike working together using a pencil and paper?
When you work together on the computer you have to know all the buttons on the computer and I think it is alot easier than doing it on pencil and paper.

11. What was interesting about student's behavior as they collaborated on a task at the computer?
 They were concentrating on the task on the computer very hard. They wanted to learn how to do it and do it the right way.

12. What can teacher learn about designing learning activities that involve the creation of multimodal texts from this study?
Teachers need to give them more of a time span to complete this because obviously they are not finishing it in the time span they have now.

13. According to the conclusion of this study, what do student need to learn in order to successful complete a multimodal text construction?
Multimodal text production requires students to have sufficient time to complex the tasks.

14. Are you suprised by the conclusions drawn in this study?
Yes, I am surprised by the conclusions drawn in this study. I would think that this study would work out or be this successful because everyone does things different ways with mulitmodal texting.

Value: So do tax cuts create jobs?

Was the page worth visiting? Does the site offer anything informative, substantial, or insightful? Is the site free of spelling and grammatical errors?

Yes I think the page was worth visiting because it gave me a better view in the presidential election and about how their is more things dealing with tax. The site is very informative about the presidential debate with Mitt Romney. There is no spelling or grammatical errors on this webpage.

So do tax cuts create jobs?

Coverage: So do tax cuts create jobs?

 Is your topic being addressed? Is the information basic and cursory or detailed and scholary? Explain the major argument being made.

The topic is being addressed. The information is basic because its just simply stating facts about the presidential debate. The major argument in this article is about how on Wednesday debate Mitt Romney repeated his claim that cutting individual and corporate income taxes creates jobs. But when you look at what actually happened, the periods when we had the highest tax rates were the periods we had the greatest job and economic growth. And the periods with lower taxes had lower job and economic growth.

So do tax cuts create jobs?

Currency: So do tax cuts create jobs?

When was the information on the page originally written? Has the site been kept up-to-date?

This webpage was created on September 5, 2012. This page was just created because of the debate just happening.

So do tax cuts create jobs?

Objectivity! Do Taxes Cuts Creates Job?

The authors point of view is he is trying to clear up the problem. Because Mitt Romney talked about do taxes cuts creates job people think that this is true. Dave Johnson is just trying to clear it up because it is wrong and he has many sources backing up his claim. He is talking about the tax rates with poor and wealthy people. The purpose to this site is to inform people. To inform them that even Mitt Romney said that tax cuts do create jobs he is wrong and they want to inform people about this by bringing people into the situation and given their professional opinion. Yes the speaker uses positive words to describe his point of view and negative words  to describe Mitt Romney. The message is one-sided. Dave Johnson does use sources and they are reliable because this article is part of the main website. There is a graph that has statics. The data was collected by Dave Johnson and it is presented fully. The campaign for America's future is paying for it.

Accuracy! Do tax cuts create jobs?

Accuracy: Do you have good reason to believe that the information on the site is accurate? Are the facts documented? Identify a claim and use another source of information on the web to verify the accuracy of the claim.

Yes, because it is a protected site because it has .org in it. The main web page on this site gives me enough information to hold my claim in this being an accurate website. From my topic, it branches off to a more in depth information page talking about do tax cuts create jobs. Yes the facts are documented because when I went to the in depth page it had hot links linking me to where they got the information.

Campaign for America's Future

Do Tax Cuts Really Create Jobs? Authority.

 Authority: Who are the authors, or who is responsible? What gives them their authority or expertise?

The author is Dave Johnson but he writes for the Campaign for America's Future (CAF). He has been writing for Campaign for America's Future for six years now. He has wrote many times about different presidential debates. The Campaign for America's Future is responsible for the website Dave Johnson is just one of the writers. Everyone has authority to make a statement on the computer. Campaign for America's Future (CAF) is just giving the facts about does tax cuts create jobs because apparently Mitt Romney thinks so but other people see no way that could be possible.

So Do Tax Cuts Create Jobs?

Website #2

Title of web page:
Do Tax Cuts Really Create Jobs?


URL of the web page:

 http://www.conservativecrusader.com/articles/do-tax-cuts-really-create-jobs

Is there an author of the document or web page? If yes, who is the author?
David Bozeman


Is contact information provided?
No


Who is the publisher or sponsoring organization for this web page?
 David Bozeman

 Do you trust the information given on the web page?
 Yes I do.

Does the web page document its sources?
 No its a guys opinion.

How does the information on the web page compare with what you already know?
 It is just giving me more information on the topic does tax cuts really create jobs.

Does the web page tell you when it was created and last revised?
 It was published September 22, 2012.

Are there outside links?
 No

Does it contain original information or just links to other sources?
 It does contain original information.

Why was it created?
It was created to inform people

Is the information biased? 
No just to inform people.
 

Website #1

Title of web page: So Do Tax Cuts Create Jobs?
URL of the web page: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/so-do-tax-cuts-create-job_b_1943500.html
 
Is there an author of the document or web page? If yes, who is the author?
Dave Johnson

Are his/her affiliations and qualifications given?

No

Is contact information provided (address, phone number, email)?
No

Who is the publisher or sponsoring organization for this web page?

Dave Johnson

Do you trust the information given on the web page? Is it reliable and valid?
Yes I trust the information on this web page. And yes I think it is reliable and valid.

Does the web page document its sources? In other words, does it tell you where the information comes from?
Yes.

How does the information on the web page compare with what you already know?
Basically I knew about Mitt Romney presidential debate but I did not see it this way. So when I read this article it made me get a new perspective.
Does the web page tell you when it was created and last revised?
It was created on October 5, 2012.

Are there outdated (dead) links?
No.

Does it contain original information or just links to other sources?Its original in Dave Johnson aspects because it is his opinion but it also has links to Mitt Romney presidential debate to give us more information.

Does the information have real value? Explain.
Not really because he is just giving his opinion.

What is the web page's purpose or intent? Why was it created?
This webpage was created because Mitt Romney had his presidential debate and said that cutting individual and corporate income taxes creates jobs. Well Dave Johnson has a good point when the taxes were high we had the greatest jobs. It was created to inform and explain.

Is the information biased? Is it designed to sway opinion? From who perspective is it given?
No the information is not biased, and it is not designed to sway opinion. Dave Johnson is a fellow campaigning for Americas Future.

Double Entry Journal #11

1. Why are networks better than hierarchies?
People won't be merely information transmitters. They will be empowered assets, acting independently. Yet leaders will retain an important role: not through controls and detailed instructions but by instilling the basic vision, values, and objectives into the organizations and by holding employees to performance contracts.

2. What is a nation state and how is it being threatened?
They are associated with the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648. When the powers of continental Europe wound up the Thirty Years War with the pledge to let each country be ruled as its ruler desired.A struggling nations-state and mounting challenges to traditional politics together produce a sort of perpetual bad mood in political life.

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.
Civil society has become more powerful through increasingly deft use of new technologies. Thousand of web sites, instant news service, and alert systems have sprung up and are being used to form powerful coalitions of NGOs and other civil society groups.

4. How can business be a helpful global enforcer?
A business can be a helpful global enforcer by providing stuff we need everyday.

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 the environmental issues. What is going to happen to the environment if pollution takes over or global warming? Are we still going to see the beautiful hills of West Virginia.

Double Entry Journal #10

Moral Panic is a term that has arisen to describe conditions in which and identified group in society is portrayed as a threat to social values and norms.

1. What is the fundamental problem with the discourses around children's use of technology?
Tapscott has argued that an entire generation of young people is different to previous generational cohorts because of its experience of networked and digital technologies. He has claimed  to identify a generational shift that concludes significant changes in attitudes and approaches to learning. He suggested that it is because of changes in technology that there have been some " inevitable" consequences for learning.

2. What is meant by the term "moral panic"? Link to an image, online article, cartoon, or some other resource that depicts the "moral panic" associated with young people's use of digital technologies.

3. How do you feel about engaging in more "collaborative learning" during your education at Fairmont State?
I feel like we should have more collaborative learning because from my experience I do better with collaborative learning. I like working together with people. I get to know their views on a certain subject but I can also put my input in too. It makes me learn better with like the information I don't understand I can just go to one of my group members and ask.

4. Do you think Universities should move to a more free-market based privation business model? Why?
No because we have a perfectly good business model.

5. According to the author what is wrong with Prenskey's revived position on his definition of "digital native"? Do you agree with this authors criticism of Prenskey's view of the role technology plays in the education of young people?
 The move he makes is from a hard of technological determinism, claiming that technology has created the divide between natives and immigrants, to a soft form of determinism in which digital enhancement is necessary for everyone if they are to succeed in the new digital world.

6. What are the characteristics of Millennial? Are you a Millennial?
Recent outcrop of a long historical process and the fusion of the idea of the Net Generation with the idea of Millenials can be seen as cementing this cyclical generational view into the idea of a Net Generation in education. No.

7. Do you think there is such a thing as the " Net Generation"? Why? Why not?
Yes because technically it is the same thing as digital native.

8.What is meant by the term "network individualism"?
A move away from place-to-place interaction towards interactions that are person-to-person in character.

9. How would you feel about Fairmont State discontinuing the use of Blackboard and Webmail to using Gmail and Google tools?
I think Blackboard and Webmail are unreliable because sometimes they may work but others they won't. For example, some teachers don't know how to use Blackboard so the students don't know their grade or if they have assignments. Look at how long Webmail was out and we could not get our mail or anything. So yes I agree we should switch to Gmail and Google Tools.

10. Why does the term "Digital Native" persists despite lack of empirical evidence of age related difference due to rapid increase of digital technologies?
There is a difference between Digital Native and digital technologies. Digital technologies change every day no matter what but really Digital Native does not change.

11. Who societal sector seems to be benefiting the most from the social construction of a "Digital Native" generation?
Universities

12. Which argument about "digital natives" needs to be discarded and which one needs to be explored? Why?
Some work has tried to replace the idea of a Net Generation and digital natives with a new replacement metaphor.

Double Entry Journal #9

1. Why is inflation less of a concern in the new world economy?
 There is less inflation-prone environment created across the globe by the very fluid new world economy with its twin economic and technological revolutions.

2. What is the difference between a negative feedback economy and a positive feedback economy?
Consider the classic cycle of wheat: when prices rise, farmers produce more, consumers buy less, and equilibrium is restored at a lower level of demand. It is limited by short-term supply- and-demand constraints.
 
3.Give an example of how new technologies can provide developing countries with an opportunity to catch-up with modern economies?
In education, the opportunities are equally tremendous. To give just one example, in Mexico, the Monterrey Tech university has in a few years become one of the world's foremost distance learning systems, with some thirty connected campuses across Latin America offering each student access to the same star professor. In many developing countries, teacher networking over the Internet is leading to better curriculum development and rapid exchanges of best practices.

4.What is one prediction the author made concerning the new economy that appears to be true?
 The hub-and-spoke network developed by the U.S. airline industry since deregulation means that 80 percent of U.S. airline industry travel now takes off or lands at the busiest 1 percent of airports. If a problem hits one or a few big hubs, it ripples throughout the network.

5.Why is excessive trust in free-market economies promoted by free-market fundamentalists a cause for concern?
With the central planning model gone for good, more politicians and other players see the market as the solution to all problems, sometime dumping on government while they are at it.

6.Read and link to a website that provides information about regulation and markets. Based on the information provided in the website, what is your position on markets and regulations? Then list two questions you have about markets and regulation.
Market Regulations It is pretty much just markets is stuff you sell or show off and regulations is just rules and i think we need both regulation and markets.

7.What is the cause of the crisis of complexity in the new world economy?
A crisis  of complexity is brewing. Human institutions tend to evolve only slowly, in a linear way.

Double Entry Journal #8

1. What was the term "Digital Native" meant to be used as?
metaphor for describing the differences that many people observed between the attitudes of younger and older people regarding digital technology.

2. According to author what are the characteristics associated with Digital Natives?
why so many adults in developed countries felt, around the turn of the century "at sea"  when confronted  by new digital technologies. The metaphor implied was because their children were born into the age when these technologies were around from their birth, whereas their parents were not. That is why the metaphor was picked up so quickly and spread so widely.

3. Do you consider yourself a Digital Native?
yes

4. What is Digital Wisdom?
Twofold concept referring both to wisdom arising from the use of digital technology to access cognitive power beyond our innate capacity and to wisdom in the prudent use of technology to enhance our capabilities.

5. How does the author define "wisdom"?
Can be used to make us not just smarter but truly wiser.

6. How can technology enhance our Wisdom? Give three examples from the chapter?
Wisdom seekers in the future will benefit from unprecedented, instant access to ongoing worldwide discussions, all of recorded history, everything ever written, massive libraries of case studies and collected data, and highly realistic simulated experiences equivalent to years or even centuries of actual experience.

7. What concerns did Socrates have about the technology of writing?
Writing  would diminish our memories but was shortsighted in that concern.

8. How can teachers practices Digital Wisdom?
Teachers could put more technology use in their school schedule.

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?
Yes because I believe our mind is always increasing and each and every day we unaid our mind and that is superior to the enhanced mind.

Quote:
He argues that the new technologies associated with contemporary popular culture, from video games to the internet to television and film, make far more cognitive demands on us than did past forms, thus increasing our capabilities in a wide variety of cognitive tasks. (Steven Johnson)

Discussion:
I agree with this quote because video games, internet, television, and etc makes far more cognitive demands on us than past forms. When we play a video game we have to think of a strategy to kill the opponent for example. For the internet, you have to think of key words to type in the search engine and you have to find a reliable source. With making a film, you have to figure out what the audience is interested in to the film can become popular. But in the past, they did not have such high tech technology.


Citations:
Thomas, Michael. "Deconstructing Digital Natives."

Kenuam, Amanda."10 Ways To Use Skype in the Classroom."
 





                  

Skype Reflection

I thought the skyping with the fifth grade class was a good ideal because we got to make magazine covers and then let the fifth graders judge us. It was interesting letting fifth graders judging us and giving us feedback. I really appreciate all the advice they gave us and the feedback really opened up my eyes because if these fifth graders already think positive stuff about us it really gave boosted my confidence in being a teacher.

Idea of having skype in the class room.

Picture Post

I chose the picture of Albert Einstein. The photo could help me teach a concept by discussing his brain smart and how he came up with new concepts in the world of physics and mechanics, but also teach how Albert Einstein can be humorous too.

1.Did this picture of Albert Einstein change history?
2.If we did not have someone like Albert Einstein where would we be today?
3.If Albert Einstein did not stick his tongue out would everything be different?
4.How has Albert Einstein impacted our lives if he was not a genius?
5.How would the world be different if he never figured out physics or mechanics.

Obama

1. Three things I observe from the photograph are Obama talking to the BP workers and business people about the oil spill. I do not know but the boat in the background is probably a boat full of oil. This picture is after Obama and everyone fixed the BP oil problem.

3. They need to come up with a better caption. Is he really the one doing the talking?

4. This picture gives me more confidence in Obama because in the first picture Obama is just sitting there looking concerned but he is not doing anything but thinking. It kind of makes me think does he do that alot. Is he more sitting in a chair thinking than doing action? But in this picture he is taking action instead of sitting down. He is walking with BP oil people and business people. This picture makes me feel like he is trying to help people out.

People	Objects	Activities
Obama	boats	walking
BP workers	ocean	discussing
business people		looking ahead

Concerned Obama

People	Objects	Activities
Obama	books	thinking
	desk	sitting
	background: lawn with trees	figuring out solutions
		frowning

1. Three things I observe from this photograph is Obama might be doing research on the problem. Why I say that is because there is book in the background. His expression on his face is he wants to fix it he just does not have a solution quite yet. His expression he is just surprised about the BP oil spill.

3.How can the oil spill stain Obama? How will the oil spill effect everyone?

Double Entry Journal #7

One of the unprecedented stresses on earth resources is food. It will negatively effect the quality of life of people living in developing countries since they are just figuring out things for themselves. So when a food problem comes up they would not exactly know how to fix it because they do not have a system figured out. Then with people living in modernized countries, they already have a system figured out but when a food problem comes up sometimes there is not going to be a solution to every problem.

The major debate is about how to balance the basic market-oriented approach with this or that regulatory feature of social safety policy.

The difference between previous technological revolutions and today’s is earlier technological revolutions had to do with transforming energy or transforming materials. Now has to do with the transformation of time and distance.

Quotes:

Some readers may still resent my use of the term “demographic explosion,” which has become politically incorrect. To those I would respond that I’m not a Cassandra or even a Malthusian, but that the resources and living space of the planet will be far more stretched with 8 billion people a few short decades from now than with 5 billion in 1990, let alone only 3 billion in 1960.

Response:

When I read this quote it really surprised me. I mean I knew our population was growing but I did not know the exact numbers. Even in 1960 the population was still high. I mean 3 billion people is a lot of people. I looked demographic explosion and it says overpopulation is a condition where an organism's numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat. They have that partly right. We aren't necessarily organism but they do have it right about  how it is getting over populated.

 This article is more about over population.

http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/population-growth

Citations:

Rischard, J. High Noon. 

 Report world population growth eases. (1996, December 27).

Seven Power Lens on 21st Century Literacy

 What is semiotics?

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


 How can teachers capitalize on students preferred literacy behaviors?

Since we know that students are speed-reading and skimming online, that they prefer clicking to scrolling, and that they will rarely read below the fold we can teach quick ways to assess authority and credibility.
Students don't visually distinguish between content and advertising we can explicit point out the difference in an online news article.


According to this article why is it important for students to learn to analyze the news media?
 It is important for students to learn to analyze the news media to position students to analyze and evaluate news reporting in today's visually drenched world. Students learn to ask important questions and engage in discussion central to democratic society. By focusing on the seven strong lenses on the news media, students learn to apply powerful cross-disciplinary skills of visual, news media, and information literacy to analyze current political issues.



understand the main idea or message in visual media (e.g., pictures, cartoons, weather reports, newspaper photos, visual narratives).

Double Entry Journal #6

No I am not a technoloevangelist of a technoloskeptic. The term Digital Native problematic is basically just the problems with digital native. Three vocab words  that I was unfamiliar with are technoloevangelist,technoloskeptic, and luddites. Technoloevangelist is person who attempts to build a critical mass of support for a given technology in order to establish it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects. Technoloskeptic is an arsenal of malware-detection technology that is designed to protect our clients from some of the nastiest threats on the internet. Luddites is any opponent of technological progress.

Quote:
Faculty often argue that banning laptops makes students more attentive in content-based classes, students at the University of Memphis Law School reacted by signing a petition protesting to the American Bar Association, claiming that they had been denied the technology for an "up-to-date education. (Young, 2006)

Response:
I agree with the faculty. I think that students should have laptops in class because who knows what they are doing on their laptop. They might be on Facebook, listening to music, or watching a movie and that just takes time away from what you are actually suppose to be learning in your class. Even though the students are signing a petition about not being able to have laptops in class it still takes away from learning. Everybody tells us that we should use new technology in classes which we are. For example, smart boards in the classroom. Using "old technology" such as writing on the board or white board is good because it makes you learn better if you visualize it.

 Citations:
 Thomas, M. Deconstructing digital natives.