[Air-L] Lesson plans for teaching for a peaceful, diverse world that is safe for everyone

Thu Nov 10 04:35:30 PST 2016

I agree with Brian's basic premise that there should be no differentiation in the magnitude in which we frame the positive/negative impact of technology and that the resulting categories (good/bad) are socially constructed.

However, I think that the key here is not to qualify the outcomes (or even the process itself), but to provide tools & framing for a critical approach toward the use of technology. Promoting that students question - and ultimately understand - the reasons for the decisions they make regarding the use of technology from a solid theoretical space seems to be the key here, at least for me.

E. Korin

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On Nov 10, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Brian Butler <bsbutler at umd.edu> wrote:

>> I try to te[a][ch this as my believe is that technology acts as a
> magnifying
>> lens: good wo[u]ld be better, wrong will be catastrophic.
> 
> Just out of curiosity: Why the imbalance?
> 
> Technology magnifies "good" incrementally and it magnified "bad"
> exponentially?
> 
> It seems like it would be more helpful to encourage students to think about
> how technology takes human tendencies and change the world (i.e. good ->
> better and bad -> worse), not that good is better and bad is
> fatal/catastrophic/etc.
> 
> Moreover, given that a key challenge of living in a truly diverse world is
> coming to consensus on what is "good" and what is "bad", how should we
> frame these conversations so they are useful/constructive/etc?
> 
> Brian B.
> 
> —————————————————————————————————
> Brian S. Butler, Ph.D.
> UMD iSchool
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD  USA
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> 
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Cristian Berrio Zapata <
> cristian.berrio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Jill:
>> 
>> I try to tech this as my believe is that technology acts as a magnifying
>> lens: good wold be better, wrong will be catastrophic.
>> 
>> I propose you and our colleagues to engage in small videoconferences to
>> talk to our students around the world. I can arrange some sessions where
>> you can make a brief intervention to show what is happening in you region,
>> and your perspective about it.
>> 
>> Most of us people, students also, live in our little boxes with our petty
>> problems, too busy to look ahead the cellphone or Facebook. The global
>> information society has been used to divide and reign, but not to awake the
>> mind of youngsters and take them out of the box.
>> 
>> I already did this with a professor in the USA and it was a good
>> experience. Talk to others with video conference or recording a video
>> message; get students to know each other and talk about what is happening
>> here in Brazil with the impeachment, in Colombia the plebiscite for peace,
>> in UK with brexit, and now with the Trump era in the USA.
>> 
>> There is the problem of language and translation, time zone differences,
>> technicalities, but we can solve it all if we join.
>> 
>> That would be my proposal and invitation. Now, in regard to the topics to
>> share, I think we can create a webpage, a blog or Facebook group, to get
>> the topics together. I would help in maintaining it if it helps. Again,
>> there the language barrier might be a problem so, we have to think how to
>> use the web's transition in our advantage.
>> 
>> If you agree, I am open to discuss this via Skype, Facebook, WhatsApp,
>> Hangouts or Telegram and make a plan.
>> 
>> Greedy corporate leaders and unscrupulous politicians are already joined
>> into global networks. We citizen are not. This can be an opportunity.
>> Thanks for you invitation.
>> 
>> Em 10 de nov de 2016 7:58 AM, "Jill Walker Rettberg" <
>> Jill.Walker.Rettberg at uib.no> escreveu:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> After the US elections I am sure many of us, whereever we live, are
>>> thinking about how to plan next semester’s teaching so that it helps
>> equip
>>> the next generation to deal with an increasingly frightening world.
>>> 
>>> Within internet research, some obvious topics we can discuss are things
>>> like polarisation of polticial views, filter bubbles, algorithmic news
>>> filtering and the increasing spread of fake news. More generally, we can
>>> design activities that foster critical thinking, empathy, understanding
>> of
>>> people who are not like oneself, and relate this to
>>> technology/internet/media.
>>> 
>>> Maybe this would also be a good time to bring discussions of pre-internet
>>> media and technology and their role in the years before WW2, or even
>>> earlier dangerous times, and to compare this to social media etc today?
>>> 
>>> I don’t yet have very clear ideas about this, but I would love to share
>>> ideas with other internet researchers who teach and who want to do the
>> best
>>> we can in our teaching to counteract the racism, sexism, hatred, distrust
>>> of government and of others, and general division that is not only
>>> affecting the USA but obviously Europe and other parts of the world as
>> well.
>>> 
>>> I know many of us already teach these things, but maybe not in as focused
>>> a way as I think we may need to do in future? Or maybe the resources I’m
>>> longing for already exist?
>>> 
>>> If you have ideas, please share them! If this is something several of us
>>> are interested in, we could set up a syllabus/Google doc / Facebook group
>>> or something. I’m thinking case studies with readings and lesson plans
>>> would be a really useful resource and might be a way we could do some
>> good
>>> in all this.
>>> 
>>> Jill
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jill Walker Rettberg
>>> Professor of Digital Culture
>>> Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
>>> University of Bergen
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>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves" is out on Palgrave as an
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>>> 
>>> 
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