Quarter 4, Week 3 – Making Judgement

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 Anglo-American Literature Icon: 

 Daniel Gerhard Brown (June 22, 1964)

            -Dan Brown, (born June 22, 1964, Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.), American author who wrote well-researched novels that centered on secret organizations and had intricate plots. He was best known for the Robert Langdon series, which notably included The Da Vinci Code (2003).

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 MAKING JUDGEMENT 

            -The process of forming an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparing careful judgment of the odds an opinion or estimate so formed is not worth doing in my judgment.

Why Is Making Judgment Important? 

             -One of the key drivers in making decisions and exercising good judgment is an individual's own set of values, that being a set of deeply held beliefs about what is good, right and appropriate. These values are deep-seated and remain constant over time, guiding us in our daily actions.

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 RELEVANCE 

            -Relevance typically refers to learning experiences that are either directly applicable to the personal aspirations,  interests, or cultural experiences of students (personal relevance) or that are connected in some way to real world issues, problems, and contexts (life relevance). It is also the perception that something is interesting and  worth knowing.

-Notice that it has two parts: interest and worth knowing. The two ways to establish  relevance is to see the information’s utility value and relatedness. Utility value answers the question “Yeah, but  what am I going to use this for?” Relatedness on the other hand, answers the question “What’s this have to do  with me?”

 WORTH OF IDEAS 

 

           -Worth of Ideas refers to the value of the information or ideas presented; something that is important for us to  know or understand. These are truthful information that are verifiable and can be determined based on the  credibility of the sources and its relevance.

 SOUNDNESS OF AUTHOR’S REASONING 

            -Sound Reasoning is simply reasoning that makes sense and follows some sort of logic. This can also be seen  as reasoning that is free from any form of bias or prejudice. 

            - Prejudice is judging someone without knowing  them, based on what they look like or what group they belong to. Sometimes, these prejudices are expressed  or communicated in the information shared through different media.

            -Bias, on the other hand, happens when  key information is either measured, collected, or interpreted inaccurately. This is common when only one side  of the issue is presented. 

 EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION  

            -The main purpose of presentation is to give information, to persuade the audience to act and/or to create  goodwill. A good presentation should have a good subject matter, should match with the objective, should best  fit the audience, and should be well organized. To communicate the desired information, effective presentations should use more of visual aids such as transparencies, diagrams, pictures, charts, and the like. 

              -If the  presentation is written, the ideas must be logically organized using appropriate transition words and divided into  inter-connected paragraphs to effectively convey ideas. Meanwhile, if the presentation is oral (watched or  heard), delivery should be clear with varying tone, rate, and volume of voice to aid the meaning, complexity,  and importance of what is being said. 

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