Announcements

• Please remind me to press “RECORD” if needed. Thanks in advance.
• Last chance! If you haven’t already, please take the class Intake Survey.
• NEW in D&T Menu:
  • Shared Class Materials on Google Drive.
  • Don’t Forget: D&T Class Resources. You get points for adding to this list.
• Housekeeping: Zoom Recordings, Blog Formatting
• To discuss if we have time:
  • NYU Guide on Pronoun and Name Pronunciation in Albert
  • Showing your pronoun in Zoom
  • Website of the day: NYU Office of Global Inclusion

Agenda

• Salient Social Identity (SSI) Breakout
• Media + Information / Technology Literacy Slides
  • Codes of Conduct: Good Bits & Teams
  • Codes of Conduct: Not-Good Bits
  • NYU Tandon School Compliance and other Guidelines. What does this have to do with diversity?

Assignments

• Due Tuesday 9/15:
  • Phase 1, Blog Post #2: Exercise in Information Literacy. Continue to write about the blog platform or service you’re using. If you like, you can use the basic Who/What/When/Where/Why model. Please include why you’re using this technology and who’s behind the technology. If you can find a Code of Conduct for the technology company, discuss that, too.
  • Phase 1, Blog Post #3: Going back to your Blog Post #1 (where you discuss the SSIs and technologies you want to learn more about), take a look at your classmates’ blogs and discuss or more blogs that might cover your interests. Discuss them in this post. CLARIFICATION: the SSIs should note be your own, and the technologies should not the ones you know.
• Extra Credit Options: Write a post about
  • Attending some part of the CDC Public Health Ethics Forum on Friday from 1-5 PM (registration required). This year’s theme is Ethical Dilemmas in Rural Health.
  • Attending the Tandon LGBTQ+ Welcome Reception next week.
  • This piece on cyber literacy. It’s a marketing piece (apologies, this is why I saved it as a PDF), but it makes some interesting points.
  • This recent National Public Radio piece on workplace diversity. We will discuss workplace diversity in a future session.
  • SSIs and Self-Stereotyping article from American Psychological Association
  • UNESCO’s site on Media and Information Literacy.