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psych700spring2010: Welcome to PSY 700, Critical Thinking, Spring 2010
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Welcome to PSY 700, Critical Thinking, Spring 2010. This course provides a number of activities and exercises designed to challenge and expand your perceptions of media, and at the same time help you develop perceptual tools to help you see more clearly and evaluate more effectively the technology and media that populate your digital landscape. To access the syllabus, click on this link: Psych700 Syllabus, Spring 2010. The syllabus is also available through our Felix Forum. Please read it carefully!
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psych700spring2010: Week #5: How do we determine bias on the web?
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Week #5: How do we determine bias on the web? Week 5: March 22 - 28/2010). When bias is obvious, we can snicker and turn away. But what happens when it isn’t, and we keep reading or watching something because it seems reasonable in its presentation? In the age of "infowhelm and mythinformation" (Jukes, 2009) we are all vulnerable to information scams. To better understand how to navigate in such a world, revisit Alan Shermer's Baloney Detection kit. Teaching Legal Professionals How To Do Research. Based ...
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psych700spring2010: Week #7: What are social media?
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Week #7: What are social media? Week 7: April 5 - April 11/2010). The world is awash in Web 2.0, also known as the social web, also known as the read-write web because of the free, easy-to-use tools that allow the least technical among us to create web content.There are four basic pillars of Web 2.0:. Many of the tools that characterize Web 2.0 are developed with programming languages that many people use. The result is that there are lots of tools! A cornucopia of content resources. Fortunately there ar...
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psych700spring2010: Week #8: Return to critical thinking
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Week #8: Return to critical thinking. Week 8: April 12 - 18/2010). No discussion this week.). Overview, goals, activities. In this final week we return to the issue of critical thinking. The goal of this activity is to apply critical thinking to your critical thinking. That is, to rethink and perhaps rewrite what is in your blog. Your have three tasks this week:. How it has changed the way you use media,. How it has changed your own professional practice, and. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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PSY700 - Critical Thinking: Apr 18, 2010
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Sunday, April 18, 2010. Return to Critical Thinking. Critical Thinking: Being a Gatekeeper. Critical Thinking in Process: Changes in Media Use. Today’s NPR program, On the Media, featured a 7-minute segment with Clay Shirky. It’s Raining Men. On NPR’s BLOG, Alicia Shepard states, “the goal is to identify and audition new, diverse voices and widen perspectives in stories. Klinger is focusing on new sources in politics, arts and national security….The question [Klinger] is asking ...Shepard goes on to quot...
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PSY700 - Critical Thinking: Feb 18, 2010
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Thursday, February 18, 2010. Intro - happy to be here! Hello fellow classmates and faculty,. And then I remember in the early 1990s, the beginning of desktops and somehow knowing enough to get by and figure it out as I went along because of my COBOL programming days. Nonetheless, one app at a time, I continue to learn and to teach how to navigate this amazingly connected and fun world and invite you to join me. About my Professional and Academic Background. I founded Synergistic Solutions. There is a dis...
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PSY700 - Critical Thinking: Social Media
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Sunday, April 11, 2010. Social Media - A Cultural Revolution. 8220;I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”. Thomas J. Watson Sr., IBM Chairman, 1943. Revolution is nothing less than a fundamental development in the phenomenon of self-expression, human bonding and group action. In this piece, I explore the ways in which social networking creates a unique platform for communication, conversation, connection and collective action. I believe this revolution in social media is based on a fu...
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psych700spring2010: Week #2: What is critical thinking?
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Week #2: What is critical thinking? Week 2: March 1 - March 7/2010). This course is about “critical thinking,” which Wikipedia defines as “…purposeful and reflective judgment about what to believe or do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments.” The goal of this activity is to consider critical thinking as a perspective that is essential to the researcher. Go to the Wikipedia article about critical thinking. Then visit The Critical Thinking Community website.
