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.