What is Media Literacy?

Today is just a work period, and I do not find it necessary to give an update of how I did the same thing in AM as I have every other day. So, I have decided to adress your question, Mr. Maks. What is media literacy?

I don't know if there is a specific answer to that question. I would say that it is one's ability to interprit information from a wide variety of media. Perhaps to understand media literacy, one has to understand media. As far as I know, media comes in many formes, like newspapers, books, magazines, computers (pdf or powerpoints and spreadsheets to get specific), TV, etc. To have full media literacy would mean that one would have the ability to gather information, understanding, and knowledge from any medium they like.

Of course, I have romanticized the idea a little bit. Everyone knows that in its simplest form, literacy is the ability to read. But if you have to give a presentation on media literacy, I would recommend rambling on and on about collaboration, higher education, greater understandings, increased senses of self worth, world peace, etc. Even if you've lost the audience's attention, they'll know you know what you're talking about.

So there's my take on media literacy. I'm sure you allready have a good idea of what it is, Mr.Maks. but maybe this will help.

Understood What Wd Did Today

Today, I was relly focused in class and I understood what was explained to us. Thanks, Mr.Maks for including examples from our assignment in the notes. I really helped me understand what we are doing. I still no not fully understand what we did yesterday in class, but I am making exercise 21 a priority. I find that you really need to do that in this class. Otherwise it gets overwhelming because at times we can have three or more things all going on at once. Prioritizing is how I got caught up in Accelerated Math.

Lots of New Stuff

Yesterday, I understood everything we talked about regarding exponents and rationals. Today, because I came in late I only have a partial understanding of what we went over. I will probably only be able to do the simple questions on exercise 21. I also need to finish this equation: a^m/n = ... That will help me. I will probably also take the notes home tomorrow. I am still suuck with graphing in AM. I have trouble getting an answer that is on the sheet, and usualy end up justchoosing a similar answer. I wonder if I have the right equations for those... But I got a 5-question test and exercise so I will probably finish those quickly.

I Get It Now!

After yesterday's class, I was a litle frusterated. When I got home to do homework, I opened my books, and stared blankly at my homework. But then, for some reason, everything just clicked. I was able to do exercises 11, 12, 13, and 14! What's more, I almost finished an AM test today. It's interesting how that happens sometimes. Tonight in tutoring, I just want to firm up my understanding of a few things, and also finish objectives 33, 34, and 35 in accelerated math. I am also having a few probles with long division still. Overall, I think I am about ready for the test.

Getting Behind Again

I am starting to fall behind. AM is not the big deal though, it's those cumulative exercises. It is hard to focus on everything, and it is hard to stay organized. We should be doing one or the other at at time, not both at once. It is hard to prioritize. Today in class, we learned about parallel and perpendicular lines. I kind of understand the stuff, but when I get home to work on it, this is what happens: I open the book, look at the question, and freeze. I am having a problem applying the notes to the questions on the assignment. It would help if Mr.Maks would include an example directly from the assignment, and showed us exactly how we should show our work for that assignment. I think this would help me stay on top of things.

Good, Productive Weekend

Regarding AM, I have 5 more testable objectives to work on tonight. Once I've finished, I will be all caught up. I still have to do the assigned Cumulative exercises. I will also download graphmatica. Objectives I still need help with are 33, 34, and 35, especially the latter two. For the most part I understand everything. A question I still have is what the x means in the equations.

Solution to the Problem of the Day

First of all, I need to download poly 1.11, so I too can play with truncated icosahedrons. How about a six-frequency icosahedrical geodesic sphere?
I finished the problem of the day, but I need to clarify some things before i get the marks. Also, I've decided to finish AM exercise 336512 FIRST before doing anything else! It has been sitting around for way too long. It's pretty much just part of the scenery in my binder by now.

Slipping Farther Behind

Today, I noticed just how far behind I am getting in AM. Tonight, I will probably have to do some extra homework. to catch back up. I did pass three objectives today, but I'm still not meeting the expectations.

Combining Graphing Skills

Today in class, we did some work on a formula. It requires knowledge of a few other things like slope. It is a little bit confusing. Accelerated Math progress is slow but steady.

AM Progress

Finally, after a week, I scanned a card. I now have three testable objectives. Finally, I'm moving ahead again! Today we also learned about slope. We were given a nice formula, so I'm looking forward to working on it. It looks fairly straightforward.

Goals

Today's class was very enjoyable for me. I know, we wrote a test, how could it be? But I got everything and just took my time. It isn't likely that I got 100% on my test, but i am pretty confident that I got around 90% or so. I have not set any goals for myself yet, but I would like to get a minimum of 90% on daily work, 95% on tests, 80% in mental math, 85% in accelerated math practice/exercises, 100% on accelerated math tests. and 100% on my blog work. So there you have my goals for this class! I'm hoping to achieve a final grade above 90%.

Making Progress Again

Todays class was good, because we had a chance to catch our breath before the test. I feel pretty confident about the distance and midpoint formulas. I need to practice long division. Accelerated math is still slow going, but I will figure it out eventually.

Math Crisis

The math crisis was actually somewhat resolved, but I am getting way behind in accelerated math. This website will probably help: http://webct.merlin.mb.ca/webct/urw/lc4130001.tp0/cobaltMainFrame.dowebct
It has the actual provincial math cirriculim. Username and password are both demo. Today we're doing midpoint and slope stuff.

Catchup Today

Today's class started out with mental math. I got 4.5/5 today. I did not fully factor x^4-y^4. (x^2-y^2)(x^2+y^2) is NOT the correct answer. I should've written (x^2+y^2)(x-y)(x+y). Now I know anyways. I need to learn how to do 1. Factor sum or difference of cubes, 2.Factor a 4-term expression, 3. factor, more than one method (whatever that means), for accelerated math before I can continue.