Well Informed #2- Racism

Racism 2.0

Racism is a touchy subject that has been around forever that usually causes some sort of argument.

People around the world all belong to the same human race; they share the same tendencies to fear, domination, and subjugation. Hence, inevitably, racism is a world-wide issue. People have been unable to embrace and celebrate the uniqueness of the various ethnic groups.

"It always seemed like it was getting better, like our generation was going to be better than previous generations," says Aust, who participated in the CNN/KFF poll. "But the TV started telling us a different story, with all of these shootings by cops." She thinks the officers should be held accountable.

Mathew Cook did a great job of explaining the history of racism. He explains that racism started out as more of what class you were in that turned into race. For many years we fought for equal rights for all races and genders but yet still get divided into "categories" to prove we have more power over others. But it never used to be this way. Cooke also says that whites went through slavery also but blacks were at the bottom and poor whites were placed above them being treated more favorably and were promised to have a better life if they worked hard enough.

There was a poll done from CNN about how big of a problem racism is in our society today and only 43% of white people think its a problem compared to the 66% of black people who think there is a problem.

On the Media #2- Smoke & Handcuffs

This on the media is about the relationship between President Trump and Fox News. Fox news has made billions of dollars exploding the politics resentment. Gladstone says Foxism and Trumpism were made for each other, the Trump-Fox symbiosis is a perfect feedback loop in which the presidents agenda informs fox's coverage and Fox's reactionary coverage informs the presidents thinking. When the president says something false you aren't going to hear about it from fox news as much as you would from other news sources.  When Trump lies or deflects his own outrages fox can be counted on to click its heals, for instance when his national security advisor Michael Flynn was revealed by leaked intelligence to have lied about talking with the Russians about sanctions the President tweeted his anger not about diplomatic subversion but about the leaks themselves.

I did some outside research and found from Media Matters and found Trump announced that he would skip the presidential debate hosted by Fox unless the network removed Megyn Kelly from the moderator panel. The network refused and issued a statement that said, "We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president." Trump responded: "I didn't like the fact that they sent out press releases toying, talking about Putin, and playing games. I don't know what games Roger Ailes is playing, what's wrong over there?"

Gladstone then goes on to talk to about Trump and what he says about immigration and the travel ban. Immigration officers are now going to have a much broader digression to decide who to round up in the first place. For example if an agent goes on a raid to find a criminal undocumented immigrant, anyone who happens to be with that person at the same time who is also here unlawfully may now be deported along them.

 

Well Infomred #1- Future of learning

The school system in regards to learning is the same in every country. Not every country has the same schooling but every country has some sort of learning. Everyone learns differently and at their own pace. In on of the videos I watched the future of learning they said that this is the very first generation that isn't scared of technology. I think that's 100% true, I see 3 year old child riding in a stroller with a giant iPad in their hands playing a game or watching a show. When I was 3 years old I was playing with stuffed animals and watching people as they passed by. I think learning from technology can be beneficial for children but also harmful. you can learn from technology, you can learn math, science, reading, etc. but you cant learn how to interact with others. You cant learn social cues or facial expressions from technology. The video also mentions the technology they are working on helps children learn at their own rate and in a way that makes sense to them. as time goes on the system will get smarter and help teach them in different ways they would understand.  I think all that is great but then you're taking away jobs, and families livelihood. If a machine will teach the children then why need teachers? why need school when each child can take turns being taught from a machine?

I think the future of learning is growing and I'm very happy that its growing and thriving. I think instead of handing the more fortunate countries the technology, take the technology to the less fortunate countries and help them develop schools and different technologies.

There was another video called The Land. Basically just children playing with dangerous things learning by experience. I get the concept of learning hands on but it could have been more supervised, at one point I thought one of the kids were going to cut their hand with a saw. The place they were learning or experiencing from was dirty and looked like an old junk yard, I wouldn't want my children learning that way. If I want them to experience something hands on I want to be there. I want to see their facial expression, the excitement in their eyes. That's something you cant get if they're looking at technology.