reflection 4

On the unit 4, in critical literacy the information that I found interesting is body language that speaks to muggers. In this article publish by Psychology Today written by Rubenstiel, Carin (1980, August). The writers write about how muggers rob people by just look their body language. In this article, the writers also made their own experiment by video tape people who walk in Manhattans on three weekdays between 10 am and 12 noon. They taped each pedestrian for six to eight seconds. 60 people had been videotaped of an equal numbers men and women in varying ages and then they ask a group of 12 prisoners who had been convicted of assaults on person unknown to them. In this article we can alert about our surroundings, our body language can caused a bad effect if we don’t take note.

In the unit 4 we had been given activity to discuss about statistic. In this unit the word statistic had two meaning which is, the meaning of statistic is referring the action towards collecting the figures and statistics means the information in term of numerical form. Both of this meaning a little bit confusing, another thing that makes me confusing is ‘in what ways is statistical literacy is important?’ the meaning of literacy is quite difficult for me to explain.

The article that had been written by Nadya Labi and had been established by Time on November 23, 1998 is all about children nowadays, they don’t have enough time to grown like a normal child. Their time is already fixed with an activity that had been stated by their parents. In the early age, sometimes kids learn from the environment itself. Kids need to have their own time, they need to play with their own friends rather than just sent them to study or other teaching lesson. They need to observe their own environment. Children’s also can learn something on the television. Parents should know that nowadays media has an important roles. Children’s are also need to be exposed to this kind of environment, so that they know about outside world.

The conclusion that I have got in this units is, I had been provided with further practice about critical literacy.