Blog #33
5/12/20
Period 9
Aven Zeng
SOPHOMORES 2020
AIM I: How can students be controlled?
For the first 5 minutes of class, we had to fill a survey that had debatable questions that had many different perspectives to how you could answer it. Examples being, “Ignorance is bliss” and “The government can create rules that make its citizens very restricted.”
AIM II: How is man conflicted between both the desire to conform and the need to be an individual?
We then followed up the Do Now, with an individual activity about what the word FREEDOM meant to us. The class discussion that followed had many different takes on it. To some students, freedom meant that a person was allowed to choose many different paths in life. Other students said that freedom is to do and choose what you want as long as you are not restricting anyone else’s freedom. Another student said that freedom only exists because of supervision; that someone is given freedom by a higher power. It’s a very complicated question that has no one single answer because the perception of the word freedom is based on personal bias and how we were brought up. After the question on freedom, we followed up on rules based on authorities in our life like parents and teachers. One student said that rules set by parents can be hypocritical like siblings get preferential treatment because of age differences and other factors which make them feel frustrated. I believe that parents should do what they think is best for their children but sometimes, teenagers will have different opinions about what’s good for them which will lead to arguments and disagreements. Teachers have a similar perspective as in some scenarios, students will prefer a set of rules from one teacher rather than a different one. However, teachers are more open about how flexible their rules are and so it's way different from how parents treat their rules as parents are usually more strict and rigid.
The following activity had us complete a survey on our notes about government, society, freedom and liberty. Again, similar to the survey in the beginning of class, this also has many different perceptions on how you can answer these questions. Most of the questions were about limiting one’s freedom for the benefit of the country which can raise many concerns about whether we should focus on the freedom of the individual or the country.
Keeping up with updates and Working from home
I used to not care much about news until the coronavirus hit because I had the mentality of “if it happened and doesn’t affect me much, then I don’t really care”. However, now that the coronavirus has struck and changed my way of going about the day drastically, I’ve been checking my phone constantly for updates. I’ve been seeing so much criticism being thrown out against Donald Trump, who, in my opinion, deserves it.
Working from home was a challenge for 5 days for me. Keeping track of lessons and notes was difficult for a bit, but it became much easier once I got into the flow of things. Sometimes, it feels weird not using my backpack to obtain my notes now, but it has made my items easier to locate.
Student Reflection
I learned that opinions may differ from other students based on perspective. For example, some students believed that freedom meant being controlled by no one other by yourself while other students thought that freedom. You also have to closely inspect the wording of certain phrases like “To assure the country’s freedom, the government should be able to spy on its
citizens”, which contradicts itself as you associate the words “spy” with limiting one’s freedom.
Learning these lessons are important for when we eventually head out into the real world because we will have to actively look for these things in our workplace. For example, contradictions in our workplace and disagreements on certain views, which can happen anytime so we have to keep in mind how we go about solving those problems. In short, we will use these lessons in order to influence how we make our decisions.
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