PT2 Topic Brainstorm

In this post, please explain what area you'd like to investigate. If you have a specific question you'd like to answer, write that too. Explain what you're hoping to expose by looking into this topic. (200 words max)

UPDATE: April 1, 2019
Go back to your original post and update your decision.

• If it hasn't changed, explain why you feel confident in your choice. 
• If it has changed, explain why you felt you needed to change. 

Then, ask a question that you need answering before you'll be able to move on.

Capstoner Peer Review

Yesterday, you had the privilege of watching the Capstoners present their work to date. Today, I need you to reflect on that experience by responding to the following prompting questions:

1. What was the biggest thing that you learned about the presentation strategies and skills that are necessary for a poster presentation like that?
2. What is the biggest piece of advice that you can give to ALL of the presenters?
3. What is the biggest piece of admiration that you can give to ALL of the presenters?
4. What do you hope to see from each of them when you revisit this experience on February 13 (4-6PM)?

Try to keep each of your answers to about 150 words. 

Group Norms

Part One
In 150-200 words, and without mentioning names or other identifiers, please respond to the following prompt:

How have you been betrayed in years past when it comes to group work?

What is it about group work that makes you worried/concerned/stressed?

Part Two

Then, find the entries from the other members of your group and respond to your own comment by addressing what you learned from those entries. There might be similarities between their responses and your own; there might be surprises; there might be confirmations. In 50-100 words, explain what you learned. 

Part Three

In another response to your own comment-thread, write three commitments you're willing to make to these people with whom you'll be working. 

A Class Divided

Please respond to EACH of the following prompts in your response. 

1. Was the experiment/activity in the documentary conducted in an ethical manner? 
2. Could/should the experiment/activity lesson/activity be done in today's classrooms? (This question was asked in the documentary, and the response from the participants was overwhelmingly YES. Do you agree?)
3. In class, I talked about how dated this experiment is, and how poorly it translates to the context we have today. I also explained that it was conducted in a small town in Riceville, Iowa with a ridiculously homogeneous group, elements that play into the experiment parameters. Remember the lesson on building the gummy sculpture and comment on what this documentary taught you about experiment parameters. Think about how the experiment changed when it was used with adults as opposed to with the children. 
4. There was an unexpected effect of the experiment, where the children actually performed better in their school work when they were in the top group. Explain why you think that happened. 

If you need to refer back to the original documentary video, you can find it here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/  

Reading #1 - If Public Libraries Didn't Exist, Could You Start One Today?

Reading #1 - If Public Libraries Didn't Exist, Could You Start One Today?

Considering our work with McLuhan's tetrads, I want you to imagine introducing a public library today. It doesn't exist in any incarnation yesterday: there is no borrowing of books, no public building, no shh-ing of people by a librarian. Then, read the reading using the link above. In 150 words, post a reply to the article. Within your reply, summarize the article and propose a question or critique regarding what you found. Keep in mind the assumptions/imaginations you had before you read the article. Think about how many ways you can stand around this elephant and understand its truth. 

Working Definition of TECHNOLOGY

Post your definition here, thinking of all of the things we have covered thus far. This is indeed a working definition, meaning you'll respond to your own post later on in the course and adjust/correct/change your theory as we evolve (compare?) our thinking throughout the course.

Discussion #1 - Sept 12, 2018

1) Is Google Making Us Stupid
2) Why Google Isn`t Making Us Stupid... Or Smart

Read the articles using the links above. In 150 words, address the dichotomy between the two.

Once you've posted your own response, read the others in the class, then post a 50 word addendum as a response to your own, addressing something you hadn't considered in your first post.