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6/8 2021 Manipulating Data & 15-week Class Schedule

    "Insider", an American online media company published an article regarding the censorship of the "tank man".  Tank man is an unidentified Chinese man who stood in front of several tanks that were killing hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators. This happened in 1989 and Bing censored all searches relating to this incident. Depending on the area, the number of images differed, as well as search results. We were then split into groups of 5 and were told to create a plan of a 15-week class schedule. It would be targeted towards university students and mostly about the things we have learned. 

        As Mr.Paterson had mentioned, Bing is owned by Microsoft and, purposely manipulating data. I believe it was simply to please the Chinese government, but was shocked when I heard google has done the same with other news. I also found an article in Japanese; however, no position was stated by the writer which made it difficult to determine which side they were on. Although, search rates are higher than usual, hiding all data on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre was too obvious. Moreover, I realized how easy it is for Microsoft, Google, and other large media to completely secrete substantial information. Moving on to our group work, we started off by writing down every lesson we remembered and tried to put them in order. We wasted a lot of time discussing the order, before grouping each topic. The Palestine and Israel conflict ended up being the longest teaching unit, and deciding from predominant lessons was an adequate choice. In addition, we debated on how the five filters should be introduced to the students. From this, I discerned the difficulty of contemplating lesson schedules. Constantly planning out the time span of each topic can be very stressful and time-consuming.  


notes:

Bing is owned by Microsoft.  manipulating data 

on purpose, they were deleting search results to please the Chinese government 

Google has also done the same 

reporting facts is not a bias


 

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