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

lewis levenberg lewis at lewislevenberg.com
Fri Nov 11 17:55:47 PST 2016


Hi all,

Thanks for raising this topic.

I'll just leave a link for those of you who may have younger students
and/or need to break away from lecture / seminar format a bit.

journeysinfilm.org

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Philippa Smith <philippa.smith at aut.ac.nz>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Great to have this discussion.  These comments bring to mind  the 'utopian
> and dystopian' framing of the internet within academia  a number of years
> back when everyone began thinking about the potential of internet use and
> where it might lead.  So many people got excited about what the internet
> might  offer society in terms of equality - yet at the same time bit by bit
> more negative aspects of 'pandora's box'  came to light reinforcing a more
> dystopian view.  I'd suggest that this sense of black and white has
> dissipated somewhat in favor of a more balanced view - though, as has
> already been pointed out, the ability to have a critical perspective and
> awareness of 'all things internet' is a sensible approach to teach our
> students.  There's more to come.
>
> Regards
>
> Philippa
>
>
> Philippa Smith
> Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication
> Auckland University of Technology
>
> Exec Director,
> World Internet Project in NZ
> Auckland University of Technology
> New Zealand
>
>
>
> From: Air-L [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Brian Butler [
> bsbutler at umd.edu]
> Sent: 11 November 2016 03:59
> To: Cristian Berrio Zapata
> Cc: AOIR list; Jill Walker Rettberg
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Lesson plans for teaching for a peaceful, diverse
> world that is safe for everyone
>
> Cristian,
>
> I agree.
>
> However, while it is true we don't like bad things (and we don't like bad
> things more than we like good things) it seems useful to understand very
> precisely whether we really believe that magnification of good is "better"
> and magnification of bad is "catastrophic".
>
> If there is truly and imbalance, it seems critical that it be taken into
> account.
> If the imbalance is due to how we experience the good and the bad, then it
> is important, but very different
> (and important to keep in mind as things change...).
>
> Brian B.
>
>
>
> —————————————————————————————————
> Brian S. Butler, Ph.D.
> Professor and Senior Associate Dean, UMD iSchool
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD  USA
> —————————————————————————————————
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Cristian Berrio Zapata <
> cristian.berrio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Brian:
> >
> > Maybe because technology, as it creates enormous benefits, it also has
> > caused very big pains, and I do not like to suffer or watch people
> > suffering. Pain always leaves a deeper mark than happiness and
> satisfaction.
> >
> >
> >
> > On the other hand, the savage capitalistic way in which technology has
> > been developed in recent decades leaves minimum consideration for
> anything
> > different to earnings... so good effects keep less and less in the center
> > of technology development. That is why we are discussing this and the
> > origin of our worries, isn’t it?
> >
> > 2016-11-10 9:27 GMT-03:00 Brian Butler <bsbutler at umd.edu>:
> >
> >> > 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
> >> —————————————————————————————————
> >>
> >> 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
> >>> > Postboks 7800
> >>> > 5020 Bergen
> >>> >
> >>> > + 47 55588431
> >>> >
> >>> > Blog - http://jilltxt.net
> >>> > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt
> >>> > My book "Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies,
> Blogs
> >>> > and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves" is out on Palgrave
> as
> >>> an
> >>> > open access publication - buy it in print or download it for free!
> >>> > http://jilltxt.net/books
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
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> > --
> > *Cristian Berrío Zapata*
> >
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