C.E. Reflection

did you learn a lot?
I learned more about whats going on in the world doing the Current Events assignments that I have any other way. (Outside of the United States anyway)
what helped you learn what you did?
The fact that there were due dates helped me learn what I did. The feeds that I set up on the blog also made it easier to find what kind of stories I was looking for.
could you have learned more?
I could definitely have learned more by bookmarking more than two stories a week, but by the time I had found and read two stories, I was satisfied.
what would you do differently next time?
If I were to do this project again, I should probably try to expand beyond just one topic. (In my case, Foreign Policy) I would also try to communicate more with my group when the Wiki posting comes around at the end of a term.
what could Mr. Scott do differently next time?
Mr. Scott should make sure a particular group does not end up with more that two Africa regions throughout the year. Africa gets pretty boring after a while.
do you think you'll continue to read the news?
I don't know about "reading" the news, (I tend to just read local newspapers) but I've been trying to watch news channels and listen to the radio more often.
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From whose viewpoint are we seeing or reading or hearing? From what angle or perspective?
There are multiple websites reporting news from the middle eastern regions. There are Israel national news.com and jpost.com, which are sources coming directly from Israel. And there are gulfnews.com and alarabiya.net, being general middle eastern news sites. Then there are CNN.com and BBC.com as an American and British perspective.
How do we know when we know? What's the evidence, and how reliable is it?
CNN is a trustworthy, national site, but the BBC tends to be biased on certain subject, as mentioned in previous responses to these essential questions. The news coming from Israel should be trusted more so than the other middle eastern sites considering that other nations tend to have bad regions with Israel.
How are things, events, or people connected to each other? What is the cause and what is the effect? How do they fit together?
These countries and events can connect through foreign policy and working together to bring peace to these nations and fight the terrorist organizations threatening these people.
What's new and what's old? Have we run across this idea before?
The old news is the fact that the other middle eastern countries aren't getting along with Israel. There's nothing completely new here.
So what? Why does it matter? What does it all mean?
This all matters because it is still debatable on whether our forces are still needed in this region or if it can support itself.