Schedule

Day 1 (1/31)

Homework:

• Join Hypothesis group & Discord Server; make sure you have access to your Blogs@Baruch account
• Read syllabus
• Read and annotate: We Learned to Write the Way We Talk by Gretchen McColluch
• Read and annotate: Welcome to the Post-Text Future by Farhad Manjoo (PDF)

Day 2  (2/2)

Homework:

• Due: submit blog post in response to one of the NYT articles from last class using this prompt as a point of departure
• Read and annotate: Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought by Walter Ong

Day 3  (2/7)

Homework:

• Read and annotate: The Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing by Peter Elbow
• View: The essential elements of digital literacy by Doug Belshaw

Day 4 (2/9)

Homework:

• Read and annotate: The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
• Read and annotate: Memory Machines and Collective Memory by Audrey Watters

Day 5 (2/14)

Homework:

• Read and annotate: Digital Literacies and the Skills of the Digital Age by Cathy L. Green
• Read and annotate: Web Literacy 2.0 by An-Me Chung, Iris Bond Gill, and Ian O’Byrne
  • Optionally browse: public view of Hypothesis annotations on this page

Day 6 (2/16)

Homework:

• Read and annotate: Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr
• Due: submit blog post on your initial plans for the digital literacy narrative

No Class (2/21)

Day 8 (2/23)

Homework:

• Read and annotate: The “online brain”: how the Internet may be changing our cognition by Joseph Firth et al.
• Due: submit rough draft of Digital Literacy Narrative to the #docs channel of your writing group by next class (2/28)

Day 9 (2/28)

Homework

• Finish in-class peer review for each member of your group by next class
• Due: upload second draft of Digital Literacy Narrative to submission portal by next Monday (3/7)

Day 10 (3/2): No Class

Homework:

Day 11 (3/7)

Homework: 

• Read and annotate: Surveillance Culture: Engagement, Exposure, & Digital Modernity by David Lyon
• Finish viewing: Citizenfour directed by Laura Poitras
  • Optionally browse: The NSA Files: Decoded by Ewen Macaskill & Gabriel Dance

Day 12 (3/9)

• Read and annotate: Long Live the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
• View: The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz directed by Brian Knappenberger

Day 13 (3/14)

• Due: publish blog post in response to Citizenfour OR The Internet’s Own Boy
• View: Safiya Noble | Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression

Day 14 (3/16)

• Read and annotate: Default Discrimination, from Race after Technology, by Ruha Benjamin
• View: Coded Bias directed by Shalini Kantayya (contact me if you need Netflix credentials)

Day 15 (3/21)

Homework:

• Read and annotate: Home or Exile in the Digital Future, from The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff
• View: Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism

Day 16  (3/23)

Homework:

• Work on your digital research paper
• Read, review, and annotate one or more of these security starter packs:
  1. Choosing Your Tools
  2. Protecting Yourself on Social Networks
  3. Your Security Plan
  4. Communicating with Others
  5. Creating Strong Passwords
  6. Keeping Your Data Safe
  7. What Should I Know About Encryption?

Day 17 (3/28)

Homework:

• Due: share first draft of Digital Research Paper to #docs channel of your writing group by next class (3/30)

Day 18 (3/30)

Homework: 

• Due: upload second draft of Digital Research Paper to submission portal by next class (4/4)
• Register a Wikipedia account and join our WikiEdu dashboard with this link

Day 19 (4/4)

Homework:

• Read: In a hysterical world, Wikipedia is a ray of light – and that’s the truth by John Naughton
• Complete this Wikipedia training module: Wikipedia policies
• Annotate these Wikipedia discussion modules:
  1. What’s a content gap?
  2. Thinking about Wikipedia

Day 20 (4/6)

Homework:

• Read and annotate: Making the edit: why we need more women in Wikipedia by Oliver Balch
• Read and review Wikipedia module:
  1. Evaluating articles and sources
  2. How to edit: Wikicode vs Visual Editor
  3. Adding citations
• Due: make your first edit! First, assign yourself a Wikipedia article via the dashboard, then add 1-2 entries to its see also section at the bottom (Stub – C classes only)

Day 21 (4/11)

Homework:

• Complete Wikipedia modules:
  1. Sandboxes, talk pages, and watchlists
  2. Drafting in the sandbox
  3. Drafting as a group
• Due: add 2-3 citations to one or more of the Wikipedia articles discussed and evaluated by your group in class today, and be prepared to share your contributions with the class on Wednesday

Day 22 (4/13)

Homework:

• Complete the Wikipedia training module on “Finalizing your topic and finding sources” and catch up on whichever ones you haven’t complete yet!
• Sign up for Wiki Conferences with your group; only one member of your group needs to schedule the conference
• Due: Contribute 2-3 sentences and and one reference to an S-class article of your choice by next class; you may do so on the article you intend to focus on for your project
• Due: plan, draft, and submit a co-authored proposal for your Wikipedia project with your group. Format the proposal via the Bibliography page for your self-assigned article for the project and share a link in the #wikipedia channel by next class (4/25)

Spring Recess (4/18)

Spring Recess (4/20)

Day 23 (4/25)

Homework:

• Complete and annotate Wikipedia module on finalizing your topic and gathering sources
• Gather and prepare sources for your project bibliography, due in one week (5/2)
• Due: publish blog post reflecting on your individual contributions to the Wikipedia project up to this point

Day 24 (4/27)

Homework:

• Outline and firm up a formal table of contents for your article
• Continue to discover, compile, and append reputable sources to your proposal
• Copy/paste the existing version of your article into a sandbox article via the dashboard
• Due: In your sandbox draft, contribute 250-500 words + 4-6 sources with attention to the tasks below:

(i) Draft and develop lead section

(ii) Begin to draft content for body sections

(iii) Add sources to support newly drafted body content

Day 25 (5/2)

Homework:

• Build out your bibliography and begin integrating its references into your sandbox draft (strive for 10-15 sources)
• Due: co-write 250-500 additional words in your sandbox draft by next class (5/4)

(i) Revise and refine lead section

(ii) Build out content across body sections

(iii) Add sources to support newly drafted body content

Day 26 (5/4)

Homework:

• Continue to migrate references from your bibliography to your project’s sandbox draft
• Due: co-write 400-600 additional words of your sandbox draft by next class (5/9)

Day 27 (5/9)

 Homework:

• Complete Wikipedia module on peer review
• Due: submit sandbox draft to #wikipedia channel, attached with a writer’s letter, for peer-review activities by next class (5/11)

Day 28 (5/11)

Homework: 

• Revise sandbox draft in response to peer review
• Due: upload Wikipedia Project Reflections to 1:1 individual channels by next class (5/16)

Day 29 (5/16)

Homework:

• Complete Wikipedia module on moving group work live
• Due by 5/24: proofread, polish, and publish final project to Wikipedia