This week was all about learning how to make a claim and back it up using evidence from a text. I’m going to be honest, I didn’t really love this project. It felt like the basic persuasive essay stuff we did in middle school so I admit that I wasn’t trying my hardest when writing and researching for this piece. We used our illustrating, authorizing and extending idea and applied it to our claims which I guess made it a little more interesting, but overall it was kind of boring for me. While I didn’t love the fact that we were writing persuasive essays, I did enjoy learning about our topic. I knew that it was very easy to hack into private information using today’s technology. The news is always talking about celebrities and important people who were hacked, but it was scary to see it on such a personal level. Companies can track my information just because I logged into Amazon or searched something on Google. I guess I knew it had to be happening because I see the ads that are tailored to my interests, but it’s not very comforting to see just how much they know. Not only do they see the things I search and buy, but they can potentially know my ethnicity and preferred keystrokes. It was very eye open to research and understand why they track us, but also to see the statistics of what they do with the information. Though I didn’t love writing this research essay, there are definitely things I took away from it. I learned to make a claim as a group, how to add countering into my essays, and of course the danger of tracking. http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-do-advertisers-track-you-online-we-found-out/
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