A. We do this investigation in several small groups. B. Upload one file of responses per group. Use a shared google doc so all can contribute simultaneously as in a chat. C. First, put the names of all group members in the file itself. D. As a group next, with all contributing individual responses where prompted, thoughtfully and briefly respond to these questions:
Do you grab unverified quotes off the Internet? Do you send unverified quotes to friends or post them on your social media accounts? If so, why? As a student at the #1 public institution in the world, how do you view your contribution/s to making facts and kindness the cornerstone of society? What can you do? This small-group exercise has real-world applications, as does every assignment / exercise / discussion we engage in together.
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Use this PowerPoint slide deck to create a group deliverable (your google shared doc). Kind Reminder: As always, did you add your team's members' names to a single file to upload one file per group? Talk among yourselves. Who will be uploading the file? Make a plan! Also, please ensure the same person doesn't always have to upload a file. :)
In a Google Doc for your team, answer these questions: a. Who is John Adams? Did John Adams say that quote repeated twice in the slidedeck for emphasis? Do research using tools given you in the slidedeck. Give factual details that clarify and complexify this response. What source did you use to determine your response here? b. Who is the author of the bestseller The Gifts of Imperfection? What credentials does she have?In The Gift of Imperfection slides, page 117, what piece of evidence would your group revise? How did you decide? What was your process? c. In the Excerpt from a Student's Otherwise Excellent Research Project, what sentence on this final page would you rethink, reresearch, and revise? Why? How did you decide? What was your process? e. List 3 resources that you have at your free use to help you determine a quote's factual basis or fake existence (19-22). You can take 2 from this slidedeck, and then add one that you and your group think is useful. What else? f. Why does this exercise matter? Discuss. Give one sentence in response. g. Then add one comment per person on how you will treat internet quotes from now on. How will you ensure you don’t have a “gotcha” moment where you use a bogus quote in an official document you are authoring? h. Post your deliverable / your group’s findings here on this Discussion Forum as a link to your google doc. Again, be sure all group members' names are in the file. Thanks! i. Read each others' groups' work, which I'm sure will be insightful and brilliant!