News organizations have the responsibility of delivering accurate news, but I learned that there is an exception. These were called editorial stories, which could include the newspaper's biases and standpoints of a certain topic. I never really knew about this, since I do not read the news on a regular basis. However, I feel that people who read a certain newspaper tend to unintentionally develop a bias or affect our opinions. For the media, many know to "not trust everything we see", and we are more likely to read from a critical point of view, but when it comes to newspapers, we tend to assume the information is more authentic or reliable. With this stereotype, the people reading news like Fox can easily be influenced to hold a certain opinion or point of view. From this, I felt the significance of us viewers needing to take responsibility to become more critical when viewing the information shared with us, whether that be on the internet or printed on paper.
This semester, I have learned so many new things from the things Mr. Paterson has taught us. He taught all semester long how not to be scared, but to be confident in yourself, and how we can learn to become the best presenter we can be. He also introduced many of us to new useful apps, and how we can incorporate technology into our studies for the better. First, he taught us how important and useful technology is these days.At TGUISS, we first and second graders are not allowed to use our phones inside the school campus. Mr. Paterson was the first teacher and class to let us use the technology we have access to, and this let us experience and explore new things about technology that Japanese schools had been hiding for a long time. We finally got to organize everything based off of Google, and got to see how convenient everything around us was getting. Finally, he taught us how to become more confident with yourself. This is one of the reasons why he’s so passionate about giving a pr...
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