Perspectives on information, technology and people
Final Product
TASK - you have a choice, pick one of three options
25% of the grade for this class will come from one of three ways to reflect on the experience of this class in this fall semester.
Review your options below and then register your choice in a Sakai forum posting.
- Read a book throughout the semester
as an individual effort - Select a book from the list below.
- Plan to give a five minute presentation about the book you read and how it applied to this class during the final exam period on Saturday, 03 December 2021 at 0800-1100. Show in it your understanding of some or all of these topics we discussed in class, by citing the discussion or reading for a particular class session, and citing examples of the topic from your book.
- Depending on how many select this option, we may do some schedule modifications.
- Read a book throughout the semester
as a group - Select a book from the list below.
- Plan to give a five minute presentation about the book you read and how it applied to this class during the final exam period on Saturday, 03 December 2022 at 0800-1100. Show in it your understanding of some or all of these topics we discussed in class, by citing the discussion or reading for a particular class session, and citing examples of the topic from your book.
- Depending on how many select this option, we may do some schedule modifications.
- Do a redesign of this course
as an individual effort - Create a new syllabus for INLS777
- In a previous semester and in a different class, I asked the students to reflect on the class by suggesting a new way to approach the topic. Every one of the students took on the topic with thoughtfulness and thoroughness. For the most part, the plan suggested by Kate Moran and Marla Sullivan continues to inspire this semester's version of the class.
- If you choose this option, you will follow in their footsteps.
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- Options for the Individual Book Talk
- Select a book from the list below.
- Plan to give a five minute presentation about the book you read and how it applied to this class during the final exam period on Saturday, 03 December 2022 at 0800-1100. Show in it your understanding of some or all of these topics we discussed in class, by citing the discussion or reading for a particular class session, and citing examples of the topic from your book.
- Depending on how many select this option, we may do some schedule modifications.
- Options for the Group Book Talk
- Select a book from the list below.
- Plan to give a five minute presentation about the book you read and how it applied to this class during the final exam period on Saturday, 03 December 2022 at 0800-1100. Show in it your understanding of some or all of these topics we discussed in class, by citing the discussion or reading for a particular class session, and citing examples of the topic from your book.
- Depending on how many select this option, we may do some schedule modifications.
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- If none of these options appeal to you ...
- Set up an appointment for a discussion about possible alternatives.
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CONDITION
- Individual Book Talk (titles linked to reviews)
- Group Book Talk (titles linked to reviews)
| Author | Title |
|---|---|
| Nolan Gasser | Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste |
| Douglas Hofstadter | Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid |
| Douglas Hofstadter | I am a Strange Loop |
| Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander | Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking |
| Alexander Klose | The Container Principle: How a Box Changes the Way We Think |
| Steffen Mau | The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social |
| Charles Petzold | Code. The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software |
| Steven Pinker | The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined |
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STANDARD
The presentations will be given during the final exam time.
If you choose the book reading option, you will each (each individual and each group) have about five minutes to present your talk, accompanied by some sort of visual support.
If you choose the course redesign option, you will turn it in through Sakai assignments.
We will use a simple P/F scale for grading.
- P = 17.5 points to 25 points
- F = ≤ 17.4 points