Week 3 Wrap Up

9.10.9 - 100 min

Warm-Up

Last warm up you listed your top five most important technologies. Now think about each one of these technologies and how has changed your life for the better (if you haven't already) and what it has taken away from you. Again this is about two sentences per item.

Talking to the Text

Just like in English but different, (easier?)

Opening two windows at once

one for reading/one for making notes (pages or whatever)

Use underline, summarize, question, connect, infer (no circle, instead, copy and paste or use right clicking to look up in dictionary)

Reading

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media:_The_Extensions_of_Man

"Summary" + first 2 paragraphs of “McLuhan’s Concept of Media”

Talk to the text using 2 windows (1 browser, 1 word processing)

Discussion on text

quesitons:

What do you notice about McLuhan’s definition of medium/media and our definition of technology?

what does a hot medium require? a cool one? can you name an example of each?

What does McLuhan mean by an “extension of ourselves?”

What does McLuhan mean when he says that the content of the medium is NOT the message of the medium?

What did Socrates mean when he told this story?

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Soc. At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters. Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself is called by them Ammon. To him came Theuth and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them; he enumerated them, and Thamus enquired about their several uses, and praised some of them and censured others, as he approved or disapproved of them. It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus said to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts. But when they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality. (Plato, Phaedrus)

Test

classmarker.com

vocabulary test 3

Do your best and watch out for tricks!

Assignment

You have named your top 5 most important technologies as well as identified their gifts and curses. Using Prezi, arrange this information in to a meaningful form for presentation. We have to work fast, so don’t spend all class working on any one step or technology.

Here are some steps to starting and finishing:

1. Create a new Prezi
2. Add the necessary text to your prezi (copy and paste from your blog)
3. Add frames and arrange your text into a meaningful form
4. download and add any images you want to include
5. create a path to navigate through your prezi
6. take a screenshot (shift+command+4) name it “5 tech_your name” and drop in my dropbox for credit (remember to show your path!)

Cool Down

If you finish before the end of the class please respond to the following question:

1. So far, what do you like about Prezi?
1. Compare it to Keynote/PowerPoint, what do you like or dislike?
2. What are you still struggling with?