Thanks, all, for your responses in our anonymous Google form. What I’m reading from you is simply this: we’re all exhausted. So, while this week is going to have some heavy materials, we’re also going to spend a little time getting outside–yes, outside–and doing a few little fun things. It’s not exactly fall break, but we’re going to try to ease up a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ordinarily in this week, we talk about your particular duties to be ethical and sustainable in your own creation of digital content. But I’m going to move that to a different week. (Principle one for responsible digital content creation: Cite your sources. Don’t use things you don’t own or have the rights to. We shall now move on.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, I want us to think about techno-utopia this week. In other words, sometimes we think that technology is going to save us. But the problem is that all technology is, at its heart, created by humans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You get a choice for your response this week–do one (or more) of these things and then respond via a blog post or audio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In your response, answer these questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once you’ve submitted your own response, read a few others’ responses as well, and respond to them. You can choose whether to talk about things in Slack or in blog comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go for a walk! Seriously, go for a walk. Post a photo in your group of the most interesting thing you saw on your walk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, once you’ve gone for a walk, you can watch this video which I’ve made for you, telling you what’s coming up for the rest of the semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n