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@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@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
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