Mohamad Noor-Chowdhury

Mo, this is is such a great topic, and I can think of multiple ways that could teach the importance of money to children, especially minority children and even adults. I didn’t know about generational wealth, stocks, investments, bonds, even savings and having money set aside until my early twenties. Teaching courses starting in middle school is one way I think could teach this topic early. Having people who are starting their careers in early education take a course in this topics in order to properly education their students. Something that I would love to see, cartoons that taught in a creative way the fundamentals of wealth and savings. Love this topic, as there many avenues we can take to implement this,

I think you are right on with need to teach more live skills at schools. On of my favorite units (not even a full class) was when my teacher had us spend 3 weeks doing paper stock trading. It was a great learning experience and got me interested in the stoke market in high school. You talk about math. It gave me the idea that it doesn’t have to be one or the other. If you use finances as a way to teach math I think it would be a win-win. Students would retain the lessons more because of the practical aspect of the teaching method, and they would learn about our finances work to be better prepared when they are part of it.

Social media has been a positive impact on how people emotionally and mentally respond to COVID. However, I think it is also the match to a lot of the civil unrest we are seeing. The issues at causing so much unrest throughout the country have been around long before social media and COVID, and not getting any better over time. The high number of unemployed people listing to their echo chambers on social media was the spark to light everything. I just hope social media can be just as helpful putting everything back together once we have reached a positive outcome.

I think social media during the pandemic and when everyone was in quaratine for those few months, was an escape from reality. It helped connecting with others virtually when being physically in contact witth people was not sociall acceptable at the time. Even though it has helped positiviely for people, I believe it has also negatively affected people mentally. I know I personally have taken social media breaks for periods of time because it’s just too time consuming and I felt like I was wasting my day away starring at my phone for hours becoming less productive. As mentioned in the Netflix documentary ‘Social Dilemma,’ social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook have created an algorigthm where the scrolling is continous with no end, and everytime one refreshes their feed, a new post pops up a he type to restart the curousity to contine to scroll. So to answer your question I think social media can help positively short term, but long term the consant time spent on social media will have a negaive impact on people mentally.

Both are interesting topics which seem taboo these days. Having social media accounts it wasn’t until recently I was made aware of how harmful these sites can be, just like any form of addiction, user frequency and type are controlled by the user, however many of us do not consider this type of activity an addiction.

I always revert back to the pre-social media days, when I was limited with my daily interactions with friends, if I wanted to know what someone looked like, I would either have to wait until I ran into them somewhere, and hearing from an old friend/associate out of the blue was special. Though I think social media is a great platform for communication and can be used in a positive way, such as finding an old friend, connecting to other users in a group page with similar interests. I also feel that these positive tactics existed prior in other communication methods, it just may take longer and harder to find that old friend than typing their name in the search bar and have them appear.

Hi Mohamad, I have seen the show Dexter and I am a big fan. I can see why you would find a career in blood spatter analysis exciting. Although I could never hack it myself because I get whoozy at the site of blood. The fact that you have a background in science and chemistry is something I am sure will only add to your skillset in project management one day. I too, am interested in a career in project management. I look forward to working with you this semester. Oh, and Go Birds! E-A-G-L-E-S

Hi Mohamad! As you, one of my favorite books is Autobiography of Malcolm X! The movie by Spike Lee was done well, but nothing compared to the book which was way more descriptive and unbridled. My favorite quote from Malcolm X is ” I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole”. Powerful.