F20CEC9- Part 1

Hi, everyone.

Welcome back to week five.

Now we're going to be as you see, doing lessons

or classes nine and 10.

We're gonna be finishing up our articles for the first

half of the semester.

So this is the fourth article of four.

So after we do this, we're going to be having

some review classes and heading towards the midterm exam.

Okay, um, you can see that we're studying this week.

Our fourth article is related to what's called in the

title The devious art of lying.

By telling the truth and we're going to get right

into that in just a moment, you may have noticed

that my voice is hopefully is clear that it has

been I listened to my recordings more closely from the

previous lessons on dhe.

I decided that my voice was a bit echoey and

that that the sound wasn't wasn't a ZX good as

it could be.

So I bought this microphone to try to improve things.

So hopefully this is a better experience.

A better listening experience for you.

I'm always trying to make things a little better when

I can.

It's not again.

Not perfect.

Working from home as an amateur.

But I do like to try to, you know, improve

the things I can when I can.

Okay, So, yeah, I hope you guys, By the way,

I hope you guys were doing all right, you know,

with this, uh, coronavirus situation continuing.

But hopefully it's Ah, it seems like the numbers have

dropped, so but it can go back up any moment.

So we're just see how this plays out.

But hopefully you're able to get out of your house

and get to some places that you like to get

to, You know, try to keep good mental health.

I'm sure a lot of you are aware of the

issues with mental health.

You know, given your major and I I enjoyed reading

your writings, your essays.

Ah, lot of you wrote about issues related thio, the

coronavirus, or mental health.

And so it was very interesting to read.

And I I hope that you enjoyed doing that and

fixing your your papers based on my feedback.

If you are watching this before Wednesday night, then you've

you've Hopefully you've already turned it in.

You've already turned in your final draft, but if you

haven't be sure and do that.

If you're watching after Wednesday, then I'll assume that you

all did finish the final draft of your writing.

One. Yeah.

Okay, let's get into this week's article first with the

excuse me with the introduction activity like we always do

again. We want to consider the context.

We want to consider all the things that we've been

practicing so far in the semester about context and paying

attention to the paying attention to the audience, paying attention

to the the way the framing of the article is

happening, the way the source has framed to the article.

And again, the way it's been tailored, we say toe

a specific audience.

So we're going to move into our last of four

articles here and our last set of skills that we're

gonna practice before we go into the midterm.

Um, like always, I found a video that that I

think helps introduce our topic in an interesting way.

Uh, this this video is kind of fun.

Actually. It relates Thio Ah, ah, lot of people's lives

these days.

I came across this a while ago.

I think this video, as you seek, was from 2017

Um, but it's really a good video to kind of.

It's kind of slapstick a little.

It's kind of obvious and kind of over the top,

but I think it does illustrate it's a good illustration.

It's not really accurate, but it's It's an illustration of

the problems that all of us face with social media

and especially with dealing with honesty online, which I think

has become mawr and mawr important since this video was

made. But this video is it's all, um this video

is all, um, all just sound effects and video.

No, no, real.

There's no real dialogue in this except reading.

You have to read some dialogue, which is kind of

fun. But go ahead and look at this.

The title of the title of it is Are you

Living an insta lie in Stuck, Of course, refers to

three idea of instant or relates to the idea of

instagram, which is where the word comes from.

Instagram, a telegram You know Instagram is a combination.

I don't know if you're aware of that.

Instagram is a combination of two words.

Instant telegram.

A telegram is an old way of communicating where we

used to it was the one at one point.

It was the fastest way to communicate.

You would on one ends.

And, uh, you would tell you would write down what

you wanted to send to your friend far away from

you and again.

This is when they're well, this is This is a

long time ago.

This is before radio before television, of course, before the

Internet. But if you wanted to send a message to

someone far away, you could write a letter, and that

would take a long time because the letter would physically

have to go on a train or go by horse,

even if it's far back enough.

But but a telegram is, you used to actually go

to a telegram office.

You might see this in the old Western movies that

deal with cowboys and all that where they would type

in. You would bring your message that you want to

send to your friend, and the person would have a

kind of a Morse code, kind of tapping that would

go through.

Lines, took dashes and dots, and it would be sent

through a line, and on the other end would be

a receiver, a person who would listen to these dots

and dashes that did it, did it and they knew

Morse code and they were able to able to decipher.

And and actually, you know, your your message would actually

become dots and dashes.

And then on the other end, the person who knew

how to decipher it, how to translate it, would bring

it back into language, and then it would be delivered.

You know, your friend would come and pick it up,

and so that's how you would send a kind of

letter. That's kind of like sending an email in the

old old old days, you know, before radio before television.

And so that idea of sending a telegram.

But this is an instant telegram because it goes by

lying the same way.

So it's very clever to call a social media platform

instagram. Anyway, I assumed, by the way, I may be

wrong with that.

I didn't go and check that to see if that's

where they can't.

You know the combination of those two words.

I'm pretty sure I'm right, but go check again.

Don't believe everything that your teacher says, because sometimes, like

sometimes like now, they might just say something off the

top of their head that they think is right.

So, see, this is in our class.

This is what I hope that you do too.

I hope that you that you, you know, you make

good inferences.

You say Okay, Instagram and I know Graham What I

know about Graham.

Well, I know the only word I know that relates

to messaging or communicating.

That has the word that the part of the word

Graham in it is telegram.

So I naturally assumed that they probably chose the word

telegram for the grand part and insta, of course, insta

relates to instant.

It has to.

There is no other combination of words that has that

part in it.

That segment.

So I think that's a reasonable inference, don't you?

Instagram would be instant telegram anyway.

Again, if I was going toe going to write this

as an answer down somewhere permanently, I would go and

verify that fact.

Verify my inference to make sure that it was right

before I I went ahead and said, That is true.

But excuse me a moment.

Their trash man has come as usual during my reporting.

Um anyway, Um, the reason that I didn't go and

check it now is because I wanted to use it

as an illustration.

I actually thought of this.

This is this is just a little bit of insight

into how teachers work often is that whenever I'm searching

the Internet, I look around and I'll read an interesting

article and and and if it's interesting, it might be

interesting to me personally.

But a lot of articles I go, Oh, that would

be a good one for teaching because it shows framing

or it shows.

You know, it's a good use of paraphrasing, or it's

a good sample for summarizing or teachers air always have

the teacher brain on in the background, you know.

So whenever we're searching for Internet, sit searching through the

Internet for other things, we always have.

Ah, kind of part of our brain or teaching brain

is still on, and we're searching, you know, we're going

Wait a minute.

Could I use that for my class?

Every teacher I know has that, and that's how you

find your stuff, because it takes so many hours to

find the right materials to to use and to illustrate

what your what?

You need to teach that you can't just sit down

and do it all one day and be done.

You have to be constantly Ah, wake for new and

interesting materials that are teachable as we say.

It's a teachable moment.

And so when I was thinking of this Instagram I

was going to just go check it up to make

sure that it was right before I gave it to

you. Like I always do to verify, you know, make

sure I'm giving you accurate information.

But this time I didn't because I thought, Ah, this

is a good teachable moment.

Anyway, Sorry for the aside, that's called in a side

A s I d e.

And a side is when you say something kind of

like not directly about your topic, but related.

And then you come back and say, Well, by the

way, by the way, and then you come back and

say Anyway, I'm back to the conversation.

Okay? So please do go watch this video again.

Watch it as many times as you need to on

then chat, chat, chat about it with your friends, with

your you know, your group members Here are the six

questions I'd like you to discuss together on this week's

Article four plus article for Warm Up Plus five.

Here's the warm up for the video.

The questions are number one.

How much do you prepare like make up and hair

and all of those clothes?

All those things?

How How much do you prepare for pictures that you

post online?

How about for live online?

Classes are online.

Our classes air not live online, but I'm almost certain

that you've had an online class.

I wonder how much do you get yourself ready?

I can tell you me.

I shave my head, too.

I shave before I before I make these videos.

But otherwise I don't put any makeup on on mold.

I'm strange looking enough as it is anyway.

Number two question.

Have you ever done what the cyclist did in the

video? You're going to see a cyclist talking and you

get well, you're you're not going to see him really

talking, but you're going to see him writing messages and

talking about what he did.

Have you ever done that?

Have you ever acted like you exercise when you hadn't?

Why, or Why not number three?

Have you ever gone somewhere in a group?

But spend most of your time?

Or maybe just a lot of your time looking at

your phone?

Why or why not?

Number four?

Have you ever posted a photo that made it look

like you were having fun?

But really, you weren't, But you weren't.

Why or why not number five.

Which of these situations in the video that I've asked

questions about which of these situations seeing the most untruthful.

They're all a bit untruthful.

But which one do you think is the worst closest

to a lie?

And why number six?

Do you think that social media has made us lime?

Or why?

Or why not?

That last question courses about you.

So yeah, I'd like for you to to think about

that, you know?

Do you think that by using social media and presenting

yourself online or is it is it really you?

Do you think that it's created?

It's created a kind of desire or kind of, um

um impetus.

We say a kind of stimulus to to make us

lime or or to not tell the truth about ourselves.

Let me know.

you know, let your your group members No, of course.

But I'll I like to check in.

I have been checking into your post, you know, the

post that you dio And that's why I've kind of

commented that I hope that your post, you know, are

really and you're having real discussion.

And you ask questions in the questions part, especially that

are about the text and about understanding the text and

trying to interpret what the authors trying to do.

Because that's the main thing we're we're trying to get

through with in using our skills as well is we're

bringing our own experiences in our own questions to the

experience. And we're wondering things that are not written in

the text, of course, because you know the frame that

that the text, the articles, all frame that subject.

So we do wonder outside of that frame.

But but we should try to stick in our discussions.

We should try to stick with what is that?

The focus of the article on what's actually contained within

the frame?

That's that we really need to understand that well, before

we pull out again to try to explore, why is

it. This author's doing what they're doing, you know?

What are they really up?

Thio And And how?

How is thief framing?

Quite limiting?

You know what is this author not telling me?

I think a lot of your questions are really good.

I see on the discussions.

But they like I told you, they can't be answered

by me or other group members because we have no

information for it.

Um, so again, try and stick with those kinds of

questions about the actual text and what's contained within it

and and how the author is using that.

Okay. All right, I'll see you in part, Part two,

coming up.

F20CEC9- Part 1

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