This week we focused on the Mobile App Software and I also met my team and started discussions and organising for our project. In class we also talked about how people have become engaged in fact checking and verification of information.
In our lab we began to work on out Mobile App Software, for this we used MIT App Inventor. We were shown the basics of how to use the software to get us started on our group project. I found this software was interesting as it was all new to me. As a beginner in this area I was worried that I would find it difficult to get the hang of but I was pleasantly surprised to see it was a lot easier than I thought. We got time to get the hang of the software and try out different tools. After this lab I felt more confident about my group project and excited to get started.
This week I also met my team for the first time. As it was our first meeting we spent time introducing ourselves and then began brainstorming. We all had different and interesting ideas which we wrote down. We did not finalise our decision as we are going to think it over this weekend and vote on Monday. We also spent some time figuring out what sort of skills and qualities we each had so that we could begin allocating roles and responsibilities . As I had no experience in working with apps I decided to use my organisation skills and take the role of scribe. I recorded all the relevant information from the meeting.
In class we discussed the credibility of information. We looked at how people have a growing thirst for knowledge with the growth of social computing and media. People can now, very simply, get the answer to any question they might have in seconds through the internet. Society are not as inclined to believe what they are told without researching evidence.
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