Announcements

• Please log into Brighspace now and note the availability of all Timed Exercise extensions. All students must be caught up by this Sunday. No more extensions without an accommodation via Student Advocacy, the Moses Center, or the office of Spiritual Life.
  • I’m grading exercises as they come in, but will refrain from publishing grades until everyone is caught up.

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.
  • If today is your first class, please complete the 09/04 exercise.
  • If today is your second class, please complete the 09/09 exercise.
  • Otherwise, you should be caught up and ready to complete the 09/18 exercise.
    • For the 09/18 exercise, you will refer to previous readings/listenings such as the 1619 Project, the PBS excerpts of Empire of Cotton, and the UN pamphlets on Bodily Autonomy.
• Notes on Discussion Sign-up
• Discussion (30)
• Research & Cultural Competence Skills
  • Timed Exercise quote: “Note that the b in Black should be capitalized because referring to human as colors is “pejorative”.”
    • Nell Irvin Painter (Washington Post): Why “White” should be capitalized, too
    Equity vs Equality
  • Subtext in narrative: the said, the unsaid, the unsayable
  • Commas inside quote marks
  • Authorial voice in third person (and see TEDed video “First person vs. Second person vs. Third person – Rebekah Bergman“)
  • D&T Reading, Watching, Listening

Assignment

1. Read/listen, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on: 
   • The epigraph and Introduction of Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington, available in ePub and audio. Note that this book was written in 2006; much of its information is (sadly) still correct; but some of its terminology is no longer in keeping with the MLA and APA guidelines on inclusive language.
   • “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, available in epub and audiobook (NYU login required).
     • With the audio: start in Part 3 at 35:38 and end at Part 4 at 55:37.
2. 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.