Third Week Laptop Activity — History

FIRST ACTIVITY:

Go to Newsy and pick a topic. Watch the news reports from various outlets and countries, and identify the differences you see. Please specifically note elements related to the Ways of Knowing — language, emotion, perception, and reason — and describe the differences in a comment. How might these differences affect how an historian using these reports might describe the topic fifty or one hundred years from today? You will have twenty minutes for this activity.

SECOND ACTIVITY:

Go to The Best Tools To Help Develop Global Media Literacy. Explore the different links there. Identify anything you learn that relates to how the Ways of Knowing might affect the work of historians from different parts of the world fifty or one hundred years from today. You will only have fifteen minutes for this activity.

Please write your comment here, and not at that “The Best…” list.

93 thoughts on “Third Week Laptop Activity — History

  1. iPhone 4s Battery Life Power Problems in “Tech”

    Newsy basically provided a summary of the situation: the battery flaws in the iPhone 4s and iOS. It also comments on videos that submit ideas ad tips on saving the iPone 4s battery life, and basiclly provides simple details the current situation, such as with Apple is doing to fix the situation.
    Mobot is a site that had the situation posted, and a bunch of users conversing about it. Some iPhone users blame it on the old battery types, some on some unnecessary apps. Users of this site have their own opinions about the issue; Some are furious, some are justcalmly offering tips. Nonetheless, these people have their own perspectives of the prolem.

  2. I watched the video about toyota robots and the differences between the news reports is that they use facts about whats true and then they show peoples opinions about what they think. They use their perception to explain the things they are giving the report about.The news reports get peoples opinions and use it to help explain their claim.

  3. Activity 1
    Sand Diego Chargers lost against Kansas City Chiefs on 10 31, 2011 he is being criticize about his poor performance, and is being compared to the other not so well quarter back, Tony Romo, from the Dallas CowGirls I mean Cowboys. In the ESPN site they judge Philip Rivers based on their perception in the two videos. This will affect historians, because they will see how poorly he played, and base it on others perspective and how they saw it.

  4. Historians will be viewed differently in about fifty to hundred years from now. Their work,talent, and structure will be more advanced. For an example, we view past historians differently because they didn’t have high-tech gadgets. It is still found to be determined…in fifty years or more.

  5. Second Activity:
    ViewChange.org presents a wide variety of videos around the world. It uses perception from many sorts of people around different topics. This will affect historians in years to come when they have many ideas from people in the past. They will have a lot to work with when they will have to come up with what they wish to talk about specifically

  6. technology news had some differences because they talked about how the Iphone was going to have a self checkout app which let people pay by scanning the product they want with their iphone , i think people will want to steal more.also a simple motion gaming device turns into a usfull everyday use device.

  7. http://www.newsy.com/videos/study-hominid-females-not-males-were-adventurers/

    The news attacking viewers by making it sounds like a significant turning point about whether or not women is the “homebodies” when this study about chimpanzee’s skull came out, while the scentist saying that this is indeed, a very small clue. However, back then sexism is highly concern, which I think would limit the historians from the past would to release this to the media.

  8. The US (and Vietname too) claimed that the world’s symbolic 7 billionth baby was born in Manila, Philppines. The India nws also claimed the 7 billionth baby was born in India. It’s impossible to know who’s right, the 7 billionh person on earth maybe one of the 2 baby above, maybe both of them or maybe someone else. The Christian Science Monitor tells about the 2 babies who are both girls and the article shows how this coincidence reveals the women’s power to control the worls’s population and women are on their way to gain more rights.

  9. The ways of knowing can affect historians alot. Some ways of knowing can contradict each other, and as a result the historian would have to research more to verify his beliefs.Also the historians from different countries would have different sources and the sources can oppose each other so the historians need to use the Ways Of Knowing to find out the fact.

  10. Many of the websites have new ways to make haering the news more interesting. Link TV uses a game to test the viewers perception and logic of the global news

  11. What I learned that might affect the work of historians from different parts of the world fifty or one hundred years from today that this website might actually be really helpful to other people in the world. It can inspire people about knowledge.

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