Diversity & Tech #28
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continue reading Diversity & Tech #28A site to explore cities, machines, and people at varying senses and scales. Updated by Ar Ducao, with content from classes at NYU, MIT, CUNY and more.
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continue reading Diversity & Tech #28Announcements News: NYC Lawmakers Seek Ban on Facial Scans to Identify Customers (Bloomberg Law) Agenda Assignments
continue reading Diversity & Tech #27Announcements Update to NYC Human Rights law: protections against height and weight discrimination Final assignments (drafts, peer review, presentation), word count, and extra credit have been added (in purple font) to the Final Gradesheet template. For feedback or guidance on your draft, reminder that you can schedule office hours with me before/after class, or on […]
continue reading Diversity & Tech #26Announcements Microaggressions as mosquito bites (Fusion Comedy Video)Microaggressions Research Papers and More Good example of a brief, relevant positionality statement in a scholarly article: see this research article by Sue Lockyer, starting at the bottom of page 8. New items in the “Gender & Sexuality” and “Socioeconomic Status” sections of D&T Reading/Listening/Watching. Class will be on […]
continue reading Diversity & Tech #25This University of Maryland Libraries’ Research Guide on Citation Justice links to a Github repository of Python code to “probabilistically assign gender and race proportions of first/last authors pairs in bibliography entries.” Completing all the steps below can make up for 1 unexcused absence in D&T class (2023). DUE DATE: December 24 at 11:59pm
continue reading D&T Extra Credit Opportunity: Probabilistically assign gender and race in your bibliographyAnnouncements Agenda Assignments Required: Go through your peers comments to revise/update your paper. We’ll do Round #2 of peer review next week, in different groups. Required: Add relevant a news item toΒ D&T News Items 2023. Optional: Complete the Timed Exercise for 11/29, due Saturday night. For this exercise, you’ll need to read the entries for […]
continue reading Diversity & Tech #24Announcements Citation Justice (related to this recent NYU Libraries course). Reviewing this research guide will help with the “balance of voices” Cultural Competence line item in the final grade sheet. Class on Wednesday (11/29) will be on Zoom. I’ll put the Zoom link on Brightspace after class. You don’t have to report to the classroom […]
continue reading Diversity & Tech #23Announcements New items in Reading/Watching/Listening: Updated Policy on Unexcused Absences (UA) – also added to the D&T menu Additional notes: Agenda Assignment
continue reading Diversity & Tech #22 (November 20)Final Deadlines Updated Policy on Unexcused Absences (UA) Additional notes:
continue reading Final Deadlines, Policies, EC OpportunitiesComputer Science Students worked with the following in previous semesters of PEP Comp Sci: 3D Animation Recommended free software: Blender, which does not require web connectivity to use. Blender is very popular with young animators today. Some (all?) PEP lab computers already have Microsoft 3D Viewer, but this software can only be used to view […]
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