Schedule
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Week 1 - Chasm + Computation
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
- Welcome, intros, etc.
- Icebreaker: what is your earliest memory of the internet?
- Opening lecture + discussion
- Slides
- Five minute paper: What is the new dark age?
- Break
- What is the internet?! + coding 101 (upload link + see your site!)
Read for Wednesday:
- New Dark Age, chapter 1
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
- Icebreaker generator
- Course charter
- Discuss chapter 1
- Core cognitive skills activity
- Introduce Assignment #1: Dead Tech
- Slides
For Thursday:
- Read New Dark Age, chapter 2
- Do some brainstorming and research for your essay topic.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
- Discuss chapter 2
- Assignment #1 research + work
- Slides
Due on Tuesday
Assignment #1 due Tuesday, May 6 by 11:59am. Don’t forget to bring 4 copies of an image of the object on paper.
Prep for Tuesday:
- New Dark Age, chapter 5
- Brainstorm some questions for our guest speaker, W&L CTO David Saacke.
Week 2 - Climate + Complexity
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- Assignment #1 sharing + curation activity (don’t forget to bring 4 copies of a picture of your dead tech)
- Discuss New Dark Age, chapter 5
- GUEST LECTURE: 3:15-4:30 CTO David Saacke to give tour of RAP Center on W&L Campus.
- Day 4 slides
Read for Wednesday:
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Discuss readings + New Dark Age, chapter 5
- Introduce Assignment #2
- Map activity
- Campus train tour with Byron Faidley (Digital Collections Manager)
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
New Dark Age, chapter 3
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- Discuss chapter 3
- Assignment #2 work
- Introduce Assignment #3 + signups
- Visit from Ginny Johnson, Boxerwood/COREworks at 3pm
- Slides
Due
Assignment #2 due Tuesday, May 13 by 11:59am.
Read for Tuesday:
New Dark Age, chapter 6
Week 3 - Cognition + etc.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Share out on Assignment #2
- AI/ML lecture + chapter 6 discussion
- Chat about Assignment #3.
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
New Dark Age, chapter 4
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Group 1 discussion leaders on Chapter 4
- Intro Assignment #4: Unessay
- Slides
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Group 2 discussion leaders
- Assignment #4 peer review
- What are your ideas?
- What parts are you excited about? What parts are you unsure about?
- What questions do you have?
- Assignment #4 proposal
Week 4 - Cloud + Conclusions
Read for Tuesday:
New Dark Age, chapter 7 + 8
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Group 3 discussion leaders
- Group 4 discussion leaders
- Unessay work + peer review. Questions:
- What’s your metaphor + topic + format?
- What working? What’s not working (yet)?
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Discuss New Dark Age, Chapter 10
- Wrap-up activities
- Slides
- Course evaluation
Due
Assignment #4 due Thursday, May 22, at 11:59pm. Please turn in some digital representation of your project, be it a link, a photo, a document, a short video/screen recording.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Last day!
- Present unessays. In 5 minutes, address the following:
- What is your metaphor + topic + format?
- What inspired your choices? Why is this topic complex?
- Why this format for your unessay?
- What sources/thinkers did you lean on?
- How has your thinking changed on this topic?
- If you had more time or other skills, how would your unessay look different?
Due
Assignment #4 due Friday, May 23 by 11:59pm.