Real or Fake?

Before reading the second blog post, revealing which things to be real and which to be fake, I made my own assumptions just by their surface. I feel as though we do this often in today's society. We sometimes indirectly teach our students to do the same things. However after reading the rationales, there are much more to these than I first thought.

The picture with the airplane used science I did not even think of to determine its authenticity. I initially just used my common knowledge on flight regulations to know that the plane was entirely too close to those buildings. This really takes some critical thinking that I could definitely use in my classroom. Sometimes when we look at a piece of music, we just see what is on the surface, but if we dig deep, we may find other crucial moments that we had once overlooked.

In the hotel reviews, I certainly thought that the first one had to be fake. The detail about the trip had nothing to do with the hotel, and to me, that is the purpose of the review. However, the blogger determined that they were both real upon further investigation. The lesson I learned here is that not everyone will respond the way you would to a prompt or review, everyone has their own way of expressing their feelings. This is an important idea to translate into our classrooms as well. Each students is going to interpret the material you give them in different ways and respond in different ways as well. This does not make one student more right over another.