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in-class writing prompt on A.I. part 2
Two articles we read for today mentioned that companies like Google are working to make their AI chatbots less biased but none of them provide specifics about how exactly they are doing this; this is noteworthy especially because, as we saw in the first article on LLMs, these large language models largely work autonomously and…
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in-class writing prompt for Wednesday April 17
Other than the fact that all three articles you read for today are on AI, what are some other themes connecting all of them? Again, can you connect any of these themes to any of the readings we’ve done this semester or to any of the things we’ve talked about in class since January?
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in class writing for Monday April 15 (Shew cont.)
First, what did you learn in the course of your small group assignment on Friday? Second, see if you can connect your findings to any other class reading we did from this semester! To help jog your memory, we read about the history of computing and then we read Plato, Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Walter…
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small group work on technoableism
1) Using a group-member’s phone, tablet or computer, figure out how to turn on the voice-over command and try to navigate the Web as if you have a visual impairment. Report your experience back to the class. Was it difficult to navigate the web this way? Was it time-consuming? Were you able to get the…
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in class writing prompt for Against Technoableism
Take some time to write out how Shew defines “technoableism.” Now see if you can think of ways in which the device you’re using right now (and pen/paper count as devices!) is ableist or is ableist in the way we normally use it.
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in class writing on data feminism round 2
Take 5-7 minutes to write about how your assigned website or article from last class’s small group work is meaningfully related to the article on data feminism. Can you take one principle from data feminism and connect it to the issues at stake in your assigned article/website?