Sunday 8 January 2012

Reflection B

How has technology impacted my learning:
Technology has not really impacted my learning. I get distracted a lot when I am on the computer probably going on youtube or facebook. I always end up procrastinating. I rather learn in a quiet environment with books. It was nice to have easy, fast access to all this information for my topic though.

How has technology impacted my thinking:
Technology has impacted my thinking by the easy, fast access for information for this project and more to come. I enjoyed that I didn't have to write this whole project out because my hand will probably die from all the writing.

Ability to share info and ideas:
Technology was a fast and efficient way to share and collect information.I support it because it's much easier than reading a whole book to find only some information you may be looking for.

Reflection A

Why did I choose this topic:
I chose this topic mostly because I thought it'd be easy because of the variety of ways it can be expressed. Also being a minority myself I thought to myself maybe I can relate and learn things to be aware of such crimes.

What have I learned:
I learned that hate can be expressed trough many forms and the hate spreads almost everyday. Also I never knew people hated others just because of their age, that was a huge suprise to me. I hope more schools educate children to treat others equally instead of leaving it up to parental care.

How did this make an impact on me and my view on the world:
Learning about this topic certainly opened my opens to how cruel people in the world can really be. I will now be more skeptic of others and how they will approach a minority such as myself.

My thinking and choice

I thought hate crimes was an interesting topic to explore because of the variety of forms it can come in such as ageism, racism, sexism etc. I never knew hate crimes continued as is today in a regular everyday lifestyle. My concerns is the solutions, I wish there were many different ways to overcome such an issue. I think hate crimes has nothing but a negative impact done onto an individual or a group such as Indians, Blacks, Asians and many more. I believe this is a problem that will never stop because of peoples own thoughts which can not and will not be changed. I can't believe that people would even think such a thing and form groups to spread the hate. I sometimes question myself if these people are even mentally stable. Hating someone on their colour, age or sex is probably the most stupidest thing i have EVER heard.There must be something wrong in a persons mind to hate a group for no reason without even knowing them. They should question themselves and say "why?" because I'm sure if two people are alike in personality but the only different may be sex, religion, race or age. The person most common to that individual will be prefered over the other.