Friday June 1st

Am still messed up.

SL &HL
Using your annotations from your reading of Chomsky, post three outstanding quotes from each section on your blog.

Then go back to the work you did on Tuesday and see if any of your news propaganda articles fit these.

If not, find ones that do

You'll need American Newspapers for the last of Chomsky's ideas

when done with that...

please continue with the assignment from last class.

you can use today's and yesterday's papers as well.

post everything on your blog.

HL
you will have a study period

we will pick up the lesson next week

Wednesday May 30th

sorry I can't be with you today

the post on propaganda will be your focus today

There are the seven and the three of eight approaches as well as more info on the linked sights

assignment: scavenger hunt

on your blog you will need to post a consideration of as many as you can find with examples and point form explanations from today's newspapers taken from here and or here. (you can download them and post on your blog)

linking your pieces to our logical fallacies work, or even better your reading of Chomsky will of course result in immediate bonus points of the sucrerie variété 

homework: SL & HL Finish Chomsky for Friday 


HL first story from Open Secrets and End of Man article (emailed already)

The internet is the best place for dissent to start

Ethan Zuckerman's compelling 'cute cats theory' has changed my mind about the internet's role in the struggle for global justice

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/jan/03/the-internet-best-dissent-start

see also,

Ethan Zuckerman- Cute Cats and the Arab Spring: When Social Media Meet Social Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkDFVz_VL_I

Propaganda

...uses all the tricks we have learned to convince the audience of what they should know better than to believe.

review our Sender-Message-Audience paradigm

We shall be using this site from George Mason University and this site as our  foundation sources

Seven Types of Propaganda

• Name Calling
• Glittering Generalities
• Transfer
• Testimonial
• Plain Folks
• Card Stacking
• Band Wagon

 Also divided thus into three of eight (yeah yeah, I know...)

Word games

Name-calling

Glittering generalities

Euphemisms 

 

False connection

Transfer 

Testimonial 

 

Special Appeals

Plain Folks

Bandwagon

Fear

Consider in terms of our work on the language of Global climate destabilization, and what our good friend Mr. Chomsky has to say.

occam's razor

given two conclusions with two interpretations of evidence, the simplest is always the best

problematic because.....

Logical Fallacies

Fallacies of Relevance
- evidence used is irrelevant to the actual argument, often relying on psychology or emotion to affect the audience
 ie.

• bandwagon
• stereotyping

Fallacies of Components/Composition
 -  a reliance on one part of the whole being true (or false), therefore the whole argument is true (or false)
ie.

• atoms are not visible to the naked eye, humans are made of atoms, ergo humans are not visible to the naked eye

Fallacies of Ambiguity
 - incorrect reasoning due to imprecise/incorrect use of language

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Fallacies of Omission
-necessary information or data is left out in order to misdirect others

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Critical Thinking 101

Fundamental Precepts

1. Avoid Confirmation Bias
2. Complex systems demand that we rely on the opinions of experts
3. Experts are those with appropriate training and experience, whose work has been appropriately  'vetted' or 'peer-reviewed'

The process of Scientific/Critical Thinking

Acquire evidence  (avoid confirmation bias)
Interpret the evidence (avoid confirmation bias)
Review the evidence and any theories/conclusions drawn from said evidence  (avoid confirmation bias)
Seek out the criticism of others in order to test any theories/conclusions drawn from said evidence (avoid confirmation bias)
Publish evidence and interpretation in order to open them up to peer review and thus ensure that the reasoning is sound and ...


avoids confirmation bias

the Foundation premises

Premises
1. Argumentation is wrong.
We cannot argue the finer points of climate change. Must trust the experts. (analogy of Manhattan project in WW2)

2. The most prestigious scientific organizations are in agreement. It is real, a major concern & there is a timeline (& likely a tipping point)

3. Media is a big reason why it is still treated as a 'controversy'

4. Our concern must be the application of risk management. We must seek to mitigate the risk of the potential damage.
(analogy of Manhattan project in WW2 and the purchasing of insurance)

5. The language is wrong.
Global warming is incorrect. Global climate change also.
Concern and therefore name is Global Climate Destabilization.

Also: Pascal's Wager
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
http://www.iep.utm.edu/pasc-wag/

Vid and discuss

Watch videos and take notes.
Seek quality external sources in support/counter to the discussion.
Meet with your colleagues to prepare a framework for your discussion.
Hold a 20-30 min discussion/forum to inform your classmates.


External sources posted and checked with me by Friday please

Discussions take place beginning next Tuesday, May 15

Resources (a short list, don't be afraid to use other quality sources):
Independent.co.uk
Economist.com
NYtimes.com
NewYorker.com
Scientific American
Guardian.co.uk
NewScientist
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/exxon-secrets/

Assignments:

Laura Katie
Why There Is Still Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpVWFIWZMjk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS65Pw-O77Y


Momo Francois
Mechanics of GCC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqEYLvPt0lA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29v4FZvhvcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUrNBr6KdRI

Antonia Samy Liam
Risk Management
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwuDDZ5HM_U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLoO6qyoV08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hpNoBfEsLw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx-7j5lH9gE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFCS0Pcv-Eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnLVSDAbieA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2F3bw4CmhQ

SL Homework

watch and ensure you have appropriate notes on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls8mYJIncdA&feature=relmfu
and the video which concludes the series  (Nature of science part 3)

HL Tuesday homework

Just a reminder...

a brief presentation (like a minute or two, no props) of a review, discussion of Helen of Troy... By Margaret Atwood

finished annotating A Room of One's Own Yet?