Thursday, October 13 Lesson Plan – ENG 2100, Fall 2022: Knowledge Soup

Learning Community Ideas (10-15 min)

Memory and Sense Talk on Tuesday, October 25 from 6pm-7:15pm at Columbia University (free event but have to register)

Antigone in The Engelman Recital Hall at Baruch Performing Arts Center (free event):

Monday, Oct 17 10am and 12:30pm
Tuesday, Oct 18 3pm and 6:05pm
Wednesday, Oct 19 10:45am and 3pm
Thursday, Oct 20 10am and 12:30pm

I am open up to things beyond these two, but I think they are good ones to do. Let’s talk more about creating a prompt for a writing assignment and presentation guidelines for our November event where we will talk more about what we are learning about information finding, evaluating, and using as thinkers and writers.

Lateral Reading (30 minutes)

Just like with Love’s concept of “information-as-pattern,” I want us to drill down on the conceptual definition and the value of the concept for “lateral reading” in Carillo and Horning.

What is the definition of the central concept of lateral reading? What are all of the components of lateral reading according to Carillo and Horning?

What do Carillo and Horning believe should be done in the world? Why this concept, what purpose does it serve? Why is it useful or what does it help?

How do we account for our own biases?

What are all the tips for lateral reading aside from the central components?

Let’s “laterally read” something! Let’s try one of the following:

What is Keto? The Diet Explained! – Keto Nutrition (ketogenic.com)

Giants-Packers ‘things I think’: Giants beat Green Bay, and the world is upside down – Big Blue View

JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon says US, world headed for recession in 2023 (nypost.com)

Information-as-pattern questions (20-30 min)

Let’s apply those questions from Love (p. 3) to the same sources you did some lateral reading on.

First, by “pattern”, I believe Love means something like a sort of meaning made from looking at data from a big picture perspective. This term is appealing, I think, because it points to how you need redundancy and a collection of data points to contribute to an interpretation or meaning.

What labor went in to making this pattern? (e.g., how was the data created to make such a pattern possible?)
What data was collected to contribute to this pattern? How was it collected? (e.g., the data for the interpretation was collected from something…what was it? Personal experience and reflections? Analyses of external records like language, visuals, or quantified data?)
What resources did this pattern consume? (e.g., what sort of money or other material goods allowed this to be possible?)
What resources will this pattern enable more consumption of? (e.g., will this pattern lead to more money or material goods to be directed at continuing this sort of pattern?)
Who will benefit from the continuation of this pattern? Who will suffer from the continuation of this pattern? (e.g., what sort of world is imagined from such a pattern and who is affected and how?)
Will this pattern align with patterns made elsewhere? (e.g., what else exists and how does this align with those other patterns?)

Love asks these questions because he believes markets now dictate what information we encounter rather than institutional gatekeepers. Considering a wider context can allow us to get a better handle of motives in sharing information since motives can often be much more diverse than they are for institutions like an editing department at a newspaper, a government agency, or a corporation.

Apply these questions to your chosen text. What did you come up with?

Analysis and Next Assignment (10-15 min)

On November 1, your draft of your Information Analysis Argument + Cover Letter will be due. Let’s go over that prompt now. On Blackboard, go to “Major Assignments” and under “Information Analysis Argument, Draft 1 + Cover Letter” click on the PDF underneath to read the prompt.

This and Next Week Work (5 min)

For tonight: Update Labor Log by tonight
For tonight: Complete Journal Post by tonight (read prompt carefully! similar to early post prompts about writing about a labor session with added part about how things are going now compared to how you were doing early on in the semester)
For Tuesday: Read the Dana Cloud piece (it is actually only 18 pages event though when you open it you will see 50 pages–those other pages are notes, a glossary, a reference list, and book information that you don’t have to read but can).
For Tuesday: Post 5 annotations in the Cloud readidng on Perusall.
Next Week Conferences: Everyone needs to be signed up to meet with me next week. We will talk about your Information Literacy Narrative draft (I will give you verbal rather than written feedback for it–so you MUST take notes!–bring paper and a pen or a device to write on). We will also briefly talk about your ideas for the next paper. The Journal Post for next week will be about you writing goals for the next paper and your initial idea for the next paper. Sign up: Select a Date & Time – Calendly

This is who I got so far for conferences:

12:00pm – 12:30pm

Lewis Provenzano