Logistics In Class

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Logistics In Class

• Tasks for NEW people
• Sign up at front of room
• Get with your team
• Fill in your part of the Team Contact information
• Tasks for EVERYONE
• Sign your TEAM attendance sheet (1st half, 2nd
  half)

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COMM 250 Agenda - Week 2

• Housekeeping / Logistics
• Form the Remaining Teams
• ?? Syllabus Questions ??
• Folders Attendance Sheets
• Team Pictures We Start Tonight
• In-Class Practice RAT
• Implicit and Explicit Course Agreements
• Setting Grade Weights I Team Negotiations
• Lecture
• Concepts, Theories, Paradigms
• Team Exercise 2

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Logistics In Class

• Assignments Due Next Week
• RAT1 Next Week (begins at 430)
• TP1
• Practice RAT test on Web CT (Required)
• I Will E-mail WebCT Details to the Listservs
  Thursday by 12 midnight
• Tasks for each TEAM
• Teams First Cut at 2 Grade Weights Decisions
• Set Meeting for TP1, TP2

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Housekeeping After Class

• Tasks for EVERYONE
• Sign up for your TAs LISTSERV
• comm250a 1-12 Green Judy Knight
• comm250b 13-24 Red David Mercer
• comm250c 25-36 Yellow Joseph Wen
• Tasks for each TEAM
• Only if you did NOT get and fill out the TAs MS
  Word document last week
• E-mail your TA and request the MS Word document
• Return that doc with Team Contact Information
  to your TA by Saturday

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How Do We KNOW Things?

• Experiential Reality
• Firsts Hand Experience
• Done There Been That !
• Agreement Reality
• Second Hand Knowledge
• Tradition and/or Authority
• Both Can Assist or Hinder Inquiry
• Science A Special Standard for Agreement
  Reality

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The Research Process

• Conceptualization
• Planning Designing Research
• Methods for Conducting Research
• Analyzing Interpreting Data
• Re-Conceptualization

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Types of Research

• Research based in Positivism
• Objective World
• Quantitative Methods
• Researcher is a Dispassionate Observer
• Research based in Naturalism
• Subjective World
• Qualitative Methods
• Researcher is Part of the Research

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The World of Concepts

• Concepts are
• Mental images Ideas
• Can represent things in the physical world
• Concepts are not real that is,
• They dont exist as physical objects
• IQ, love, anger, conservative, liberal, life,
  death, terrorism
• Some physical objects are also concepts
• Table, chair, tree, building, sky, computer

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The World of Theories

• Theories are
• Structures of knowledge
• Representations of the physical world that live
  in the world of ideas
• (Rough) approximations of events
• Theories are Useful Fictions
• Scientists dont think of theories as true or
  false - because they are simply tools
• When a better approximation is available,
  scientists switch theories
• Lessons The Theory of Evolution

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Theories Outside of Science

• We all have many informal theories
• Beliefs about how the world works
• Predictions about what will happen
• Judgments about how people are
• Sometimes these are based on data
• Sometimes even on good data!
• Scientific theories are different they are
  informed theories

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The World of Paradigms

• Paradigms are
• Over-arching structures of knowledge
• Representations of the physical world that live
  in the world of ideas
• Approximations of events
• Paradigms are Useful Fictions
• Paradigms are not true or false - they are
  simply tools
• When a better approximation is available,
  scientists switch paradigms
• Lessons Newtonian Mechanics ? Relativity

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Paradigms Outside of Science

• The term is used freely today -
• Stuffed crust pizza is a new paradigm
• Paradigm is used to denote smaller changes
• In accepted processes
• In common practices
• In common beliefs
• Thats ok just keep in mind that in science,
  paradigm shifts are very rare

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In-Class Team Exercise 2

• 1) Two rounds of Name Calling!
• Deliverable no written deliverable
• 2) Paradigms Paradigm Shifts
• Deliverable list 6 major paradigm shifts in
  society
• Additional Team Work
• Discuss Grade Weights
• Choose a team name
• Plan TP1 Meet before next Wed.
• Plan TP2 Peer Evaluation PC