http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
What caught my eye about this source was the title. After watching the video, i learned so many things i never even knew. One fact that caught me was when it said that India had more honor kids than the U.S. even had kids. Amazing, astonishing, yet so unbelievably predictable and true. It had so many interesting facts that it left the audience constantly engaged in the message it was trying to get out. The end was somewhat scary because it talked about how students are being trained for jobs that don't exist, the courses that students are studying will be out dated by the time they graduate. It's scary because it makes me think, will i even have a job when i graduate? can i compete with the rest of the world? It definitely makes a lot of people wonder about what the future has in store for them.
The 2nd source i viewed was the New York Time's article called " Facebook Users asks who owns information"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/technology/internet/17facebook.html?_r=1
I have to admit, i must agree with what the CEO of Facebook said "people own their info and control who they share it with". If it wasn't for that, nobody would even use facebook anymore.
Without privacy, a person could be robbed of their identity or worse. Yet people's lives aren't so private because of the fact that facebook basically "owns" their user's information and can do whatever they want with it. In my opinion, whenever anyone becomes apart of any "website" related communication system, privacy is not something they should get use to. By uploading pictures, videos, basic info of yourself, you are opening a gateway to your life for others to see. If you really want to be as private as you wish, don't join these sort of websites. The article was very knowledgeable for the readers, and made me think twice about who sees me online and who doesn't.
The 3rd source i viewed was the article by smoking gun titled "Student Arrested for Classroom Texting".
The title grabbed me immediately. I thought to myself, what kind of institution, and state would allow for a student to be arrested just for text messaging? Then as Doctor Harris let us know it was a fluke, i thought to myself, what if this really happened? There are indeed places where students could be punished severely for disobeying a teacher but no where in the united states came to mind. The article stated that the so called student was arrested and her bail was set at $298 for texting in class and not cooperating with the teacher to give it up. The article even had a fake police report. It was pretty misleading. Although the article was entertaining and a definite eye grabber, it had no real relevance to the technology and privacy issue. Sure, a cell phone is a great technological advancement, but a student being arrested for texting couldn't really connect to the main idea we are trying to focus on.
I also did the New York time resource concerning the whole Facebook privacy issue and I believe that if Facebook had not reversed the language that allowed them to own whatever you posted on the site, people would still use Facebook. It is true that if one wanted to keep things private they should not use these type of sites. People pretty much expose themselves to the world by using sites like facebook
ReplyDeleteI also did one of my sources on the article that speaks about the teenager being arrested. I actually believed it to be true, but I had my doubts as to if a school would really go that far and allow a student to be arrested. I am not entirely sure if i did my assignment correctly but from what i understood from the instructions is that we should evaluate if the source was a reliable source. I believe that the first two sources that you posted about are reliable sources but definitely the last source you posted about is not a reliable source. It seems that the smoking gun is known for its interesting but fake stories.
Martha, you don't really get into assessment until the final source. More like that would be helpful rather than personal anecdotes.
ReplyDeleteIn the first paragraph you give too much on your opinion and summarizing what you came across on the site. However, you do go into detail on the "evaluation" part by stating again your opinion but you should go into detail explaining why or why not the source is credible. Why is it an authoritative source?
ReplyDeleteIn the second article it seemed like you had an epiphany on what you personally were doing, like joining facebook and uploading pictures. I infer that you read the article you felt an expression and wrote that down rather than diving into the authoritatiive source once again.
The third article is similiar to the first and second.
Ask yourself questions like...
-Is this an authoritative source?
-If so, why?
-Is there a slant?
-What are the main points and are they correct?
-Are they slanted?
Is the author valid?(i.e. a high school student vs a phD)