Classroom modifications are of great importance in schools. Years ago, people with ADHD and other problems went noticed to a certain extent. Students with disabilities need accommodations to be able to reach their full potential. These accommodations include extra time for tests, double review of exercises, aids, study guides, taped lectures, and the list goes on.
I think the school system focuses too much on standardized testing. Focus needs to be put more on things that get us out of the classroom. Writing notes and taking a test over and over is not what will make us remember things. The school system is cheating kids of reaching their full potential. Your smarts should not be based on one test that's worth 20% of your grade at the end of the year. In the long run what does any of that do for students?
Friday, May 31, 2013
Moral Truth-Drones
Drones could be a great innovation to the journalism field; but it's a tricky, waiting game. Drones are still like a new toy to many, proper precautions and regulations have to be set up before they can fully come into play. If journalists starting with drones aren't careful about current regulations it could end badly for future generations.
http://www.spj.org/quill_issue.asp?REF=1998#1998
As great as drones could be to journalism, I think it's cautiously crossing over that line of privacy. Drones could be great for environmental stories, and things more of that topic. Drones can be used for more than that though, it's easy for privacy to get invaded with them and people are going to jump back at the idea of that.
Personally, I think drones to cross some boundary lines involving privacy; though with proper regulations they could be a great technological advance.
http://www.spj.org/quill_issue.asp?REF=1998#1998
As great as drones could be to journalism, I think it's cautiously crossing over that line of privacy. Drones could be great for environmental stories, and things more of that topic. Drones can be used for more than that though, it's easy for privacy to get invaded with them and people are going to jump back at the idea of that.
Personally, I think drones to cross some boundary lines involving privacy; though with proper regulations they could be a great technological advance.
Media
Media can make or break a story. You could have an all around great story but the interview you have backing it up could go against everything you say. You could have a great picture but the words might ruin it.. Media is a tricky thing; sometimes you have to fit it into your story other times you have to make your story fit it.
Media can sometimes persuade a reader. For example, you're reading a story about a small town in Africa; there's a picture of a starved, dehydrated young woman and her dying child or there's a picture of a family smiling. Think about it which picture would have an effect on you and grab your attention?
Always remember the phrase, "a picture is worth more than a thousand words". Without the proper story to back it up, a picture can mislead an audience.
Media can sometimes persuade a reader. For example, you're reading a story about a small town in Africa; there's a picture of a starved, dehydrated young woman and her dying child or there's a picture of a family smiling. Think about it which picture would have an effect on you and grab your attention?
Always remember the phrase, "a picture is worth more than a thousand words". Without the proper story to back it up, a picture can mislead an audience.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Advocacy Journalism-Central Park 5
Central Park Five
Exercise
11. Please compare and contrast the following
assessments of the social meaning of the wrongful convictions and the
subsequent partial exoneration of the five young men.
The
Nation : Patricia Williams http://www.thenation.com/article/173910/lessons-central-park-five#
N.Y.
Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/services/central-park-five
Columbia
Journalism Review: Lynnell Hancock http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/wolfpack.pdf
The New
York Times: Jim Dwyer http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/nyregion/central-park-five-petition-oversimplifies-blame-in-a-collective-failure.html?_r=1&
Washington
Post: George Will http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-central-park-five-tells-of-a-gross-miscarriage-of-justice/2013/04/12/982d024c-a2d3-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html
22. Use the model that we have developed to analyze
the role of the media in the frenzy that led to this miscarriage of justice.
Please list examples if the following
a)
Shared revelation
b)
Individual enlightenment
c)
Individual and collective deception and illusion
d)
Propagandistic manipulation
33. With regard to advocacy journalism, why must the
impulse toward action be tempered? When and how are facts distorted in the
pursuit of cognitive “closure”? In the absence of malice, what else explains
the veiling of truth and the pervasiveness of “dark figures” in the newspaper
account of the jogger case? Would precision journalism have succumbed to the
same temptations that entranced narrative journalism in the Central Park Five
case?
44. Contrast this case with the episode at the heart
of Bob Dylan’s “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”? Should we view this media
carnival of terrors through the lens of class rather than race?
The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/feb/25/bobdylan
Listen to the song and then blog your answer
titled “ The Fractured Media Lens of Class”
1. Of these five different sources I find N.Y. Daily News to be most resourceful. By creating a timeline and short facts with pictures it's appealing and easy to understand; linking to full articles for people who want to get deeper into the story. Opinions differ with who is writing. With the Central Park Five case an article written by a black person would differ from a story written by a white person, because of the race case.
2. In advocacy journalism there is a more biased opinion So with many different journalists all writing stories what is there to believe? What is true? Often this can lead to the miscarriage of justice because the articles won't be understood correctly. The wording in an article can simply weigh a person's beliefs to what the writer wants them to believe. It's all about the words you use in journalism, everything comes back to rhetoric truth.
3. Facts are distorted when we pick sides, get information from unworthy sources, and don't dig out the full story. In the jogger case, an article written with the statement "dark figures" people are to believe these people who attacked, these "dark figures" are not white people and must be black. Who would you be more likely to blame with a rape and assault a group of white teens or a group of black teens?
4. Race plays a part in everything, something we can't break away from.
2. In advocacy journalism there is a more biased opinion So with many different journalists all writing stories what is there to believe? What is true? Often this can lead to the miscarriage of justice because the articles won't be understood correctly. The wording in an article can simply weigh a person's beliefs to what the writer wants them to believe. It's all about the words you use in journalism, everything comes back to rhetoric truth.
3. Facts are distorted when we pick sides, get information from unworthy sources, and don't dig out the full story. In the jogger case, an article written with the statement "dark figures" people are to believe these people who attacked, these "dark figures" are not white people and must be black. Who would you be more likely to blame with a rape and assault a group of white teens or a group of black teens?
4. Race plays a part in everything, something we can't break away from.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Anti-Realism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzqnIJ6qcFw
An anti-realist is a person who denies a reality separate from our mind or our thoughts on this reality.
Your own story
I believe that your own story is news. The view I have is everything is news, but the more significant news is what grabs people's attention. Instead of simply telling your own story, it would be better to relate your story with another; make it all connect. I think if you say "I had a potato for dinner" and posted it to your blog or twitter that is news; yet it's not what people are looking for. On the other hand, if you post a 400 word blog about a shooting in your neighborhood and how that relates with gun violence that's more significant news that people would care about. What really makes something news though?
Alex's Journalism Blog
http://alexfunhouse.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-hyperreal-looking-beyond-platos.html
Both journalism and a blog. Using his own opinion but relating it to a huge philosophical idea.
http://mexodus.borderzine.com/
This is a perfect example of something that's not anti-realist. Borders are real, they separate us. An imaginary line across the nation can truly make a difference in how things are reported. Different things happen in different places, because of the borders.
An anti-realist is a person who denies a reality separate from our mind or our thoughts on this reality.
Your own story
I believe that your own story is news. The view I have is everything is news, but the more significant news is what grabs people's attention. Instead of simply telling your own story, it would be better to relate your story with another; make it all connect. I think if you say "I had a potato for dinner" and posted it to your blog or twitter that is news; yet it's not what people are looking for. On the other hand, if you post a 400 word blog about a shooting in your neighborhood and how that relates with gun violence that's more significant news that people would care about. What really makes something news though?
Alex's Journalism Blog
http://alexfunhouse.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-hyperreal-looking-beyond-platos.html
Both journalism and a blog. Using his own opinion but relating it to a huge philosophical idea.
http://mexodus.borderzine.com/
This is a perfect example of something that's not anti-realist. Borders are real, they separate us. An imaginary line across the nation can truly make a difference in how things are reported. Different things happen in different places, because of the borders.
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