Thursday, September 28, 2017

Societal Problem: Who Owns the Water? in the Ground, Stream or Lake

Three Essential Components of Public Policy Analysis and Action

 DIN: In your Journal -Choose 1 of the following questions to answer. You must answer in at least 2 to three sentences.

   1. Who owns the water in the ground?
   2.  Where do you get your news from?
   3.  What do you think of the quote below?  Is there something you do everyday , that you are trying to get better at?

Quote of the Day:
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit."    Aristotle

Song of the Week - Island Style ; John Cruz 

Daylight - hours:   Temp:


Objective - Why is important to know three components of Public Policy?

                -  Compare the Flynt Water Crisis with Onondaga Lake issues - how are they similar / different?  Why is Skeanateles Lake important?


Activities - Current Events - Puerto Rico Supply Issues , then Reading on Public Policy, review yesterday's work.

How have the trees been impacted by the weather?

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Three Essential Components of Public Policy Analysis and Action

 DIN: In your Journal -Choose 1 of the following questions to answer. You must answer in at least 2 to three sentences.

   1. Why is reading and writing important? Are they habit?


   2. What is something good that happened yesterday?  


   3.  What do you think of the quote below?  Is there something you do everyday , that you are trying to get better at?

Quote of the Day:
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit."    Aristotle

Song of the Week - Island Style ; John Cruz


Objective - Why is important to know three components of Public Policy?

                -  Compare the Flynt Water Crisis with Onondaga Lake issues - how are they similar / different?

Activities - Current Events, then Reading on Public Policy, review yesterday's work.  

Friday, September 22, 2017

Monday Sept 25 Goverment Reading and water

Reading from text ...see documents
page 4 1.3 ...


drink water  testing??? text code

song?

Friday - Rocket Man, Maria Devestation and Bibliography

In your Journal - you must answer this question

- How was your cellphone use in this class this week? Did you use it everyday? Multiple times during the class? Was it used just for music ? Or was it used for texting , watching shows, or social media (example - Twitter, Facebook, etc)

Then Choose one of the following - and you can just write the question and /or answer the question, turn the question into answer:
 
Current Events:
1) Why is Skeaneatles Lake in the news?,  Who is Rocket Man? Where was Hurricane Maria's impact felt?  Current Events

2) Why does a  Bibliography matter?


SURVEY RESPONSES

Objective - Evaluate the impact of digital technologies on learning?


Review Cellphone   Addiction Assignments  assigned and due dates
  - Assignment Checklist /Rubric
  - Review Bibliographies 
  - What is a Societal problem ? What is a Government Policy?



Thursday, September 21, 2017

Thursday - Bibiliography / how to and survey

DIN - Take the following Survey - click here Link to Survey


Today's  Big Ideas

Why does a bibliography (works cited page) matter?

 If something is "Fake News" chances are it will not have sources , therefore no bibliography.

After you take survey - you are going to learn how to make a Bibliography (Works Cited Page)

You will use the 4 sources listed below and Citation Machine.  So lets first click on:
Citation Machine   APA Style ,

Sources of Information to create a citation:

1)  Brain Hacking  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brain-hacking-tech-insiders-60-minutes/

2)  Leave Your Laptops at the Classroom Door   https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/opinion/leave-your-laptops-at-the-door-to-my-classroom.html?

3)   Why We Can't Look Away from Our Screens -  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/science/technology-addiction-irresistible-by-adam-alter.html?

4) Creators of the iPhone fear they created a Monster https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/29/15893960/apple-iphone-creators-smartphone-addiction-ideo-interview

Copy the citations into MSword 
- then email to ssgates100@gmail.com


Format -

Title:   Cellphone Addiction

   Annotated Bibliography (Works Cited)