This week notes-
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll
Discussed how raw data we collect needs to be analyzed and put into Findings section as the wisdom we developed based on our research
Data to Wisdom- http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm
Tomorrow, I will be in our classroom at Kean at 9:30 am.We will review: Methodology
Explore how to report our research results.
If you are not able to attend the class or need to participate election, you have three choices in lue of your attendance:
Send me an email with your reactions, reflections, experience as a researcher documenting a historical event or a case study: Use your critical thinking lens.
Please feel free to include links, pictures, and post it to your E-portfolio and send me the link when you complete your research report of 2012 election in NJ, USA and the World:
1) NJ Perspective: Spending extra half an hour at the polling station that you will vote recording your observations using your five senses. What you hear, see, smell... OR read Star Ledger for the next three days starting today...
2) US perspective: Watching and comparing three different new channels reporting election: ABC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC, etc.
3) Wordview: Watching a news channel from another country- Aljazeera, BBC, China Daily, The Times of India, CNN world OR reading an international newspapers- http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ , or surfing the internet related to Election 2012.
Election resources from Kean Library- http://libguides.kean.edu/elections
"No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light. Rumi"
As Rumi said, let's become the light to NJ, the US and the World, share our reactions on our portfolios.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll
Discussed how raw data we collect needs to be analyzed and put into Findings section as the wisdom we developed based on our research
Data to Wisdom- http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm
Tomorrow, I will be in our classroom at Kean at 9:30 am.We will review: Methodology
Explore how to report our research results.
If you are not able to attend the class or need to participate election, you have three choices in lue of your attendance:
Send me an email with your reactions, reflections, experience as a researcher documenting a historical event or a case study: Use your critical thinking lens.
Please feel free to include links, pictures, and post it to your E-portfolio and send me the link when you complete your research report of 2012 election in NJ, USA and the World:
1) NJ Perspective: Spending extra half an hour at the polling station that you will vote recording your observations using your five senses. What you hear, see, smell... OR read Star Ledger for the next three days starting today...
2) US perspective: Watching and comparing three different new channels reporting election: ABC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC, etc.
3) Wordview: Watching a news channel from another country- Aljazeera, BBC, China Daily, The Times of India, CNN world OR reading an international newspapers- http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ , or surfing the internet related to Election 2012.
Election resources from Kean Library- http://libguides.kean.edu/elections
"No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light. Rumi"
As Rumi said, let's become the light to NJ, the US and the World, share our reactions on our portfolios.