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Diversity & Tech 2024 #4 (16 September)
Reminder that today is the last day of Add/Drop. Be sure to review the syllabus carefully, particularly the reading assignments, workload, and grading, to make sure that this class is right for you. Last chance!
Next Monday, weather permitting: Underground Railroad walking tour. No Timed Exercise! 🙂
Agenda
Intro: News Items (25). If you didn’t add a technology-related news item that came to mind during your reading/listening assignment, please add it now. This is a required part of your weekly assignments.
Timed Exercise (25) in Brightspace
For today’s timed exercise, note that railroad travel was still a new, emerging, “disruptive” technology during the time period of Beloved.
Railroad travel relied on wrought iron, which itself relied on rapidly evolving manufacturing technologies during the first and second Industrial Revolutions.
Before you start today’s exercise, I recommend searching for instances of the word “iron” in the passages of Beloved you read for today’s exercise.
Read/listen, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on:
The remainder of Beloved Part 1 in the audiobook or ePub, up to “she murmured from the far side of the trees.” For the audiobook, this includes:
Section 5
Section 6
The first five minutes (00:05:08) of Section 7
What current technology issues come to mind from your reading? Please find a news item about a relevant technology issue, and add its URL to the 9/18 tab in D&T News Items 2024.