Question 3 Last Question Yay!

First I'd like to say theres a lot of great things I've learned this semester. I don't know if i can pick just one to expand on it but i'll give it a good shot. I think arguing was a very important part of our class. And i think the best part about arguing was trying not to make a fallacy. Fallacies were something I've always heard of but I never really took the time and effort to learn it. I now realize that yelling and arguing without carefully thinking can lead people to think i'm an idiot. I really think knowing the fallacies will help not just my self but everybody from making mistakes. I hate losing arguments but i hate even more to bit my tongue. and even more than that I would be absolutely mortified if i ended up offending somebody. So I think knowing all fallacies from slippery slope to bullying can also help us as people recognize them and point them out. It's all about advancing as a people and I want to be able to have intellectual conversation with somebody without having to worry about being mean and still accomplish things.

Question 2

My favorite thing about the class is the online nature of it. I don't feel like i'm forced to be locked into a classroom for hours and hours. I like the fact that we read on our own time. We do blogs on our own time and we comment on our own time. It's a super flexible class and i really enjoyed that that most. I'll miss having an online class because now I'll have 2 1/2 hours more to be forced into a desk at school. The least favorite thing about this class was probably desire2learn. I didn't find it very useful. Maybe because we spent so much time on the blog desire 2 learn just felt like a waste of time. I think instead of using that the teacher can just put up important things on the blog and try to eliminate desire 2 learn all together apart from the quizzes. I think the only way this class could improve is to have an online lecture. A video recording of lectures would be very good and impressive. It's a colorful addition and a break from the reading. It also shows us more of the teacher. I really know nothing about the teacher. I don't know how she teaches meaning stylistically. I guess the style would be online, but maybe if i felt like a person was there i could feel like I was learning much better. I'm taking this idea from a biology class i took over the summer where we had online lectures and we had a short quiz and the end based on the lecture. I felt it was very helpful.

Question 1

What is it that i've learned in this class. The class is about critical decision making but i don't think that does it justice. I think this class teaches you how to think properly. Logically I don't think I've learned this much since I was in computer science which I didn't ended up hating. I learned how to think things through. I know longer have to go into arguments and ending up looking like a fool. I can end up looking like an average person. I know now when to pick my battles and when to believe whatever it is that i'm supposed to believe. I guess I could be classified as a gullible person. I tend to believe when people tell me things and I don't really think things of it because I trust people. Now i'm kinda weary to believe things unless I put it through my decision making criteria. I think this class is really important and I can see why it's needed for core GE. I think we should learn things like this at a younger age because i'm 20 years old right now and i feel like if i knew this when I was 16 high school would have been less of crap shoot. High school was like people always trying to deceive and lie for no real reason. Critical thinking would have made me think logically and answer back with a smart witty response like a politician. This class and my 100w class have really changed the way I speak and think so thank you for that. Logic FTW.