The students began the class today with a chat session. Bob Gotwals also participated this afternoon, and the conversation was quite interesting. Global Chat was used again, and the session was mediated by Anne and Monte. The students also went outside during the first half of the class to play telephone and to review how the problems in Telephone apply to the internet and newsgroups. Another example of this was led by Bob1, who showed two students a sentence for a few seconds, and then asked them to write it down. This experiment showed how people only see and remember what they want to see or what they think they will see.

The next activity was done with boxes of straws. The first question asked was, "Do you believe what it says on the box?". Almost all of the students responded that they did, but when they actually began counting the number of straws, measuring them, and even comparing the conversion rates on the outside of the box to the straws to itself, they discovered something different . Through this, the students discovered that the information on the box was, in fact, wrong. This surprised the students, and they gained a greater understanding of the many things that they took for granted as being correct probably weren't.

The final activity, led by John Pahl, an intern, was an investigation into the ebola virus and the different rates involved. The students went to an online model to look at the different roles that certain factors played in an epidemic. The figures impressed and shocked the students.