Information Overload!

Information is always at our fingertips and it comes in unfathomable quantities. This has potential to be a great help to us, but in some ways the overload of information makes fact searching slightly overwhelming. When we were asked to find articles about a topic that matters to us I thought that we would do one activity with them and that would be it. I was so wrong. It was only the beginning and I found myself questioning our professors (in my mind) on their decision to get us to do so much work with one piece of writing. I did not see what direction they were going with the tasks they were presenting to us. I now have more insight into what intentions were/are. It makes so much sense that they are asking us to question what we assume to be truth and factual and to get us to search beyond our current knowledge of a subject to a new place of learning. The methods that we have learned to effective researching have proved to be very helpful to me in all of my courses.

Michael Camp made a comment that has really stuck with me and it has seemed to crack open my mind to the many possibilities that surround all situations. When we were discussing genocide it was apparent that many of us had some preconceived opinions about genocide, etc. He asked a question to the extent of ‘what makes genocide worse than war?’ I am not sure why, but that one question seemed to resonate within me and I realised that I need to ask such questions (controversial, unthought of, etc) of other situations. His question seemed to get my mind to work in a more diverse way. I know it probably sounds ‘weird’ but it is all a part of my learning process.