The Banking Concept of Education

1. Do you think the problem posing concept can be used with younger students?

2. I think these are just two different types of learning styles, and different learning styles could be better for different people so maybe one isn't necessarily better than the other?

3. Do you think that the banking concept really dehumanizes people as individuals?

The Banking Concept of Education

1) First of all, did anyone else think this was a confusing reading?
2) Do you think that with the way school is structured that we truly learn anything?
3) Do you agree that the banking method inhibits creativity?

The Banking Concept of Education

1. Do you think that all you have done with your education is just memorize and not understand it?
2. What is knowledge to you?  How is someone knowledgeable?
3. What is the teacher's job?

Why School is Bad for Children

1. Is it bad to trick your teachers?

2. What should we change our school systems to if you think we should change it at all?

3. Should we switch to a school system in which we are on the path to pursue our careers earlier?

Paulo Freire

1) Freire says information presented to students only goes as far as "receiving, filing, and storing deposits." I'm not completely sure I agree with this. Do others agree?
2) He also says that "teachers present themselves to their students as opposite" Why shouldn't a teacher think like this?
3) Freire states students are ignorant. I don't agree with this, because everyone adds their own "spin" on different topics. Why else should they not be considered ignorant?

John Holt reading

1) How does school make a child ashamed of their curiosity?
2) School raises curiosity, so why take away school?
3) What are some of the consequences of abolishing compulsory school attendance?

School is bad?

1. Is creativity lost in schools? 2. Does right brain thinking not matter? 3. Downfield trips really allow for more outside te box thinking?

Why school is bad

Does Holt's article make you think about school with a new perspective?

Did you find the article one sided?

How do you think the schooling situation should be handled?

School is bad for children

Do you think this author's view is too progressive and almost new age or Do you agree with his viewpoint as being accurate?

Can you personally relate to this at all?  Did you ever feel like while in school your creative abilities were discounted by your lack of basic mechanics and other "need to know" subject matter?

Do you truly think Children would still have structured lives without school?  Or do you disagree with the author and think they would/could be "running the streets."

School is bad for children

1) Do you agree with the author's point of view?
2) Do this change your view on school and what it does to us?
3) Do you think the author may be exaggerating or generalizing?

School is Bad for Children.

1. I can see where he is coming from, I think school really teaches the left sided brain (analytic) and not so much the right side (creative). So I agree that people need to be taught to be themselves more and be more creative. It depends on what age group he is talking about?

2. I think letting them miss school a lot is too extreme. Expecially as they get older, the child will really fall behind from missing days of school. Instead of letting them miss school, wouldn't more field trips or something, be a better idea?

3. I really disagree with the statement he makes that we don't and will not ever know how to measure what a person knows or understands. I don't see how tests, quizes, and class participation doesn't show the teacher what a student knows?

Annotated bib

1. how do you properly cite a personal interview?
2. when typing it up, how do you include yourself as well as the interviewee?
3.  how do you set up the summary after your works cited?

V for Vendetta

1. was V justified in killing the lady in her bedroom since she was just doing what she was told?
2. How did the government gain all the power that the achieved?
3 why did the govermnent allow experimentations on human beings?

Visible man.

1. was singer narrow minded during his paper?
2 why didn't he support his statements with statistics?
3. why did singer just go under general assumptions most of the time?

School is Bad for Children questions

1. Is this very one sided?  Did you ever have a teacher that taught you more than the curriculum?
2. What age group is he talking about?  The attendance for elementary school is good because they don't know yet, but I agree as you get older and realize the consequences then it should be eliminated.
3. How are his ethos?  He shows no statistics or anything to back his point up.

Annotated Bib

Anyone else think this is a lot more work then it needs to be? I am a little confused at what the actually point of the annotated bibliography is? Length?

Annotated bibliography

Is their a certain number of questions we should be addressing for our topic?

In an other class our annotations had to include if they are creditable sources and if they are timely this writer does not do that, is that correct form?

Do you think the writer does an overall good job of persuading you she can write 2,000 words on this topic?

Annotated Bibliography

Is it important to have the page number from online sources?

Do we have to number the questions in the proposal?

Are there any length requirements for either the proposal or bibliography?

Sample Annotated Bibliography

1) Is this considered to be a good example?
2) Are we supposed to put a personal opinion or personal connection in our proposal?
3) How long are the annotations supposed to be?

Student Sample Reading

1. I thought this paper seemed a little uneducated. Like for example, he/she seemed to repeat themseleves a lot, and tell us what they were going to talk about instead of actually doing it (Show then tell). Is it, or is this how ours are supposed to be?
2. Do we need to talk more about our own thoughts in each annotated bibliography?
3. I think he/she did a good job of answering the questions proposed at the begining.

My Movie

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13046418/presidentz-movie

military argumentative

Kristina's edit: I've embedded the video to our blog so people don't have to be redirected to watch it.

Military argumentative
by: jasonv55

what one person feels as opposed to the facts

video: limits for community good vs freedom of speech

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limits for community good vs freedom of speech
by: cvijetinovic

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13046844/limits-for-community-good-vs-freedom-of-speech

maternity leave

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maternity leave
by: mg167611

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13056177/maternity-leave

Safe sex education video

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Safe sex education
by: JordanLochard

http://www.xtranormal.com/profile/7773485/?published=true

Stem Cell

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stem cell
by: eric_osborn

pros and cons

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13055902/stem-cell

movie on whether or not uniforms in schools hindering creativity

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uniformszz
by: ac6785102

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13055690/uniformszz

My movie

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Obesity fighters
by: scottyp55

One superhero convinces the other super hero that obesity needs to be controlled

I am no director but I did the best I could

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13055634/obesity-fighters

Movie

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Presidentz Movie
by: amfalke

Welfare debate

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13046418/presidentz-movie

my movie :)

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Animal Farms
by: os345309

What kind of laws should Ohio make to get rid of exotic animal farms?

my movie :)

Hazzing and Bullying

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hazing a bullying in college
by: AndrewMcKinney

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13042579/hazing-a-bullying-in-college

Rap Music

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Playgoz Movie
by: seansims062

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13054758/playgoz-movie

Movie

Playgoz Movie
by: mg646010

Affirmative Action Movie

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Affirmative Action
by: beneilers

Is it good or bad?

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13046074/affirmative-action

My Movie

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The Catholic Church vs Obama's new Rule
by: bobcatgirl

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13047475/the-catholic-church-vs-obamas-new-rule

Movie

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Bush vs Obama
by: cjsoehnlen

Governement Spend

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13047330/bush-vs-obama

My Movie

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Is Dairy Farming Ethical?
by: lindsey_shaffer

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13047704/is-dairy-farming-ethical

writting process

What kind of brainstorming do you do? How do you start writing a paper? Did you find the reading helpful?

THE WRITING PROCESS

I thought this article was extremely helpful when it came to organizing and starting papers.

1. In this article they tell us to use websites like google to gather information, but my teachers and professors have always told me to stay away from google because it can't be directed back to an original source.

2. After I read all the ideas they have given me to help me organize a paper, I thought they were all extremely helpful. But I know I would never take them into consideration... I think about doing them, but I know I won't.

ENJOY MY MOVIE :)

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Tanning- For or Foe
by: kk976010

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/13043093/tanning-for-or-foe

writing process
 i hope some people feel the same way when they lose what there talking about? does anybody think thats drafts kind of get you off topic? does anyone think that you just writing down words just to get it done? do some people think that you lose focus after writing your draft forever

V for Vendetta

1. Why doesn't V ever reveal his actual face? Did that bug anyone else?

2. How old is V? I was so confused.

3. Why does V wear such a sketch-ball mask? Does he sleep in that?

The Writing Process

I thought this article on the writing process was very helpful. 

I did not understand how to really identify an audience for a research paper?

Along with that I wonder if identifying and audience would really change your paper, as they say it would?

I feel that narrowing your subject would really limit your paper and what you discuss which I thought was not a good thing?

The Writing Process

I thought this article on the writing process was very helpful.
I did not understand how to really identify an audience for a research paper?
I also d

The Writing Process

Why do you want to start out so vague in the beginning?

I don't understand why they give us so much advice to go on Google and other random websites when the library encourages us not to use those.

Is it that important to write your ideas down instead of keep them in your head?

The writing process

1)   What is the importance of drafting your title?

2)   What is the purpose of an introduction?

3)   Why should you make lists before writing your first draft?

Xtranormal Invention Exercise: Examples

Here are some examples of the Xtranormal assignment that is due on Wednesday. In these two examples, each character is a stakeholder in the argument, meaning that they have something to lose or gain depending on which way the argument goes. While it may appear that one character is winning the argument, this is only because in a 2-3 minute video it is hard to show the complexity of an issue. The point is to show that problems are often complex and have more than one "right" side.

Remember to publish and share your Xtranormal video by Wednesday morning.

Attendance Policies in University Classes
by: kittendeonaldo

Why should it matter that you missed more than 3 classes?

Teaching Assistant Salaries
by: kittendeonaldo

a.k.a. Money for ramen.

Writing

Does anyone else feel like more then one draft is just a chore? I kind of feel like structure inhibits creativity anyone else agree? Do you find it easier to write your paper in chunks or all at once?

The Writing Process

1) does making a list help you?
2)whats better brainstorming or free writing?
3)are you limiting yourself if you have a predetermined audience?

The Writing Process

1) Do you think having several drafts helps?
2) Do you always have to have a predetermined audience?
3) Is it best to draft your paper in chunks?

The writing process

What will the focus of essay three be?

what annnotation is most commonly used?

Can we use examples from the ABGW?

The Writing Process

1. Does the title have to be catchy?
2. we should have some pre writing in class sometime?
3. what is our audience for the third essay?

Privacy Dilemma

1) The author stated that WikiLeaks was the cause of the uprising in Kenya. Is that a false accusation?
2) The author states no one has perfect morals so no one person should ever have all the power. Is this true?
3) Singer never states the military mistook cameras from weapons but the video showed this. The author pointed this out in this essay. Is it possible Singer did this on purpose?

privacy dilemma

1) Do you think "Visible Man" is an eye opening article?
2) Did "Visible Man" persuade you in any way?
3) What flaws did you see in the article?

Student essay

What grade would you give this essay? Do you think the essay bring up valid critisms of Singer's view of the helicopter video Do you think it was right for the school to announce the death in his family over the intercom?

Privacy Dilemma Questions

1) Why do you think Paul wanted start his essay off with the death of his father?
2) Does anyone else think that the essay had more personal opinion rather than facts?
3) Did anyone else feel like that the writer did not realize that the helicopter video incident is still murder, regardless whether it was a mistake or not?

V for Vendetta

1) What is the meaning of Vendetta?
2) Could you imagine what the world would be like if every time someone stood up against the government and all the citizens backed them up? WWIII would be between the national government and the american citizens.
3) I really enjoyed this movie. As I watched I could easily relate it to Visible Man. Is anyone else enjoying talking about the government as much as me?

Privacy Dilemma Questions

1) Do you find it ironic the writer critiques Singer's bias in his piece when this writer started this essay clearly with a bias?
2) Why isn't the writer consistently citing sources?  Example page 3, first paragraph in regards to Kenya.
3) Do you think this writer was too much "against the grain?" I personally do for sure!

Privacy Dilemma

1) I like the writer's opening, but why do you think they decided to be so personal?
2) Why does the writer focus so heavily on social networking?
3) Its hard to pick out, but what side is the author arguing for?

The Privacy Dilema questions

1. This is for Peter Singer's article, but why does he mention the part of the Iceland Bank?  What is the purpose of putting that in?
2. The reflection really got me engaged, but im having trouble figuring out the reflection on my paper.  What are some of your reflections?
3. Does he incorporate all of his sources in the essay?

Questions for V for Vandetta

1. Should a government be that strict?
2. Would you feel more safe if the government controlled everything you do including a curfew?
3. If you didn't like the way a government was acting like, would you do something about it?

Questions on V for Vendetta (Part 2)

We learn from the interview with the Chief Investigator, Mr. Finch, that Larkhill is a detention facility where they kept the “usual undesirables.” Is V an undesirable? Gordon Dietrich seems to think that he is an undesirable too, but why? Is Evey an undesirable? We learn that her parents were undesirables – they were black bagged by Creedy’s fingermen. What does it really mean to be an “undesirable?” And what are the consequences of having this label?

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In this installment, we see Evey reveal her backstory to V. In particular she says,

I’m the one that’s sorry. Sorry I’m not a stronger person. Sorry I’m not like my parents. I wish I was but… I’m not.  I wish I wasn’t afraid all the time but… I am. I know this is rather screwed up, believe me, I know better than most, which is why I wanted to ask if there was anything I can do to help make it right. Please let me know.

But later on, we find out that she was just going to use her participation as an opportunity to escape. Was she just lying then? Is she really more content not being like her parents? Did she never actually see herself as helping out V in his cause?

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We learn something more about V in this installment too. His personal motto was apparently: Vi veri universum vivus vici or “By the power of truth, I while living, have conquered the universe.” How to we see truth motivating V’s actions? How does his motto inform us about the title V for Vendetta?

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So far, we have seen V kill three people: Lewis Prothero, Reverend Lilliman, and Delia Surridge. All three of them played significant roles in Larkhill, but they are also visible figureheads in England. Does V have a strategy or rhetoric for killing these people? What about these people’s backstory and current roles can we consider as contributing to V’s decision to eliminate them?

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Mr. Finch gets a hold of Delia Surridge’s journal from where he learns a few things about Larkhill that he couldn’t learn elsewhere. When he informs Chancellor Sutler that he thinks V wants the truth about Larkhill revealed, this is what the Chancellor says: 

Am I to understand that you have read this document inspector? ... Has anyone else read it? … Then let me make this perfectly clear to you: The contents of this document are a matter of national security, constituting an assault on the character of several important Party members, as well as a blatant violation of the articles of allegiance. As the authenticity of this document cannot be verified, it could be an elaborate forgery created by the terrorist, as easily as it could be the deranged fantasy of a former party member who resigned for psychological reasons. Any discussion of this document or its contents will be regarded at the very least an act of sedition if not a willful act of treason… You would do well, Inspector, to put it out of your mind.

Is this a suppression of the truth or an attempt to stifle a lie? Who decides what is true anyway? And better yet, who should decide what is true? 

V for Vendatta

How far in the future is the movie set?
What happened to V hands ?
How do you think the movie will play out?

1) do you think that because of this Wiki Leaks will revolutionize how people distribute information
2) will the government ever shut down the website
3)Will this website cause new wars over leaked information

Questions on V for Vendetta

This is how V introduces himself:

Voila! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage is no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi now vacant to vanish. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.  The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [laughs] Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me "V."

What impression are we supposed to get from this introduction? How does this help us to think about whether we are supposed to like him or not?

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After the Old Bailey is blown up, Chancellor Sutler and his advisors "sit" in a conference. What is the significance of the fact that Sutler appears on a screen instead of in person? Why does he appear larger than everyone else in that room? And what are we to make of his short monologue?

Gentlemen, this is a test. Moments such as these are matters of faith. To fail is to invite doubt to everything we believe, everything that we have fought for. Doubt will plunge this country back into chaos and I will not let that happen. Gentlemen, I want this terrorist found and I want him to understand what terror really means. England prevails.

This relates to a question I raised in class today: why is it bad to have negative emotions about our government?

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Towards the end of the segment that we watch, V and Evey have this conversation:

Evey: Can I ask about what you said on the tele?

V: Yes.

Evey: Did you mean it?

V: Every word.

Evey: You really think that blowing up parliament is going to make this country a better place?

V: There's no certainty, only opportunity.

Evey: I think you can be pretty certain than if anyone does show up, Creedy will black-bag everyone of them.

V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Evey: And you are going to make that happen by blowing up a building?

V: The building is a symbol,as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by the people. Alone a symbol is meaningless but with enough people blowing up a building can change the world.

Evey: I wish I believed that was possible,but every time I see the world change is always being for the worst.

What we see here are two opposing views on the possibility of changing the government. V is convinced that he can effect a positive change, but Evey says that change is never good, at least not from her experience. How do their respective characters reflect their opinion on changing the government? On whose side are we supposed to be?

Government Secrecy

1: how can the president claim to be open about secrets yet Clinton would prefer to have secrets? 2: do you trust the current administration with our national security? 3: do you think WiliLeaks did more harm then good?

Government Secrecy

In this article it is said Obama is not one to keep in secrets, in the last article it said Secretary Clinton is pro-secrey.  How do you think this dynamic plays out?

why would not knowing secrets be better?

Isn't it our job as Americans to put checks on our powers? Thus making the internet's issue of control never a problem?

Government Secrecy

1) Does anyone else think that what Bradley Manning did was an act of treason to his country?
2) Do you think Wikileaks will release something that will sabotage the presidential election this year?
3) Do you think Assange is a hero or a villain?