http://www.tolerance.org/ These are pitched at K-12 teachers but I have used the exercises with my grad students successfully with tweaks. Great materials. Have a great weekend. Lauri. _________________________________________ Lauri Goldkind, PhD Graduate School of Social Service Fordham http://www.laurigoldkind.net/ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you its going to be a butterfly. --- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:55 PM, lewis levenberg <lewis@lewislevenberg.com> wrote:
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@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
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From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Brian Butler [ bsbutler@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.
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Cristian Berrio Zapata < cristian.berrio@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@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.
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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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