Monday, December 12, 2016

Question for the week of 12/11/16

Question for the week of 12/11/16:

If UUs could create a program in which UU players created a world that they think is perfect, what do think about that? Would all UUs create the same world? Would this be a good way to show non-UUs what UUs are all about?

"Cartoons on the Pluses and Minuses of Technology". Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice. https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/cartoons-on-the-pluses-and-minuses-of-technology/ . Accessed 12 December 2016.

We challenged the youth to sculpt humans as they should evolve to be better at playing computer games in their present form.  

 

And here are the results:








"Cartoons on the Pluses and Minuses of Technology". Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice. https://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/cartoons-on-the-pluses-and-minuses-of-technology/ . Accessed 12 December 2016.


 


Sunday, December 4, 2016

Question for the week of 12/4/16

Question for the week of 12/4/16: 

What are the best and worst things about digital activities like texting and tweeting, Instagram and email? (Speed can be a pro and con) 

Today we listened to Krista Tippett interview James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor-at-large of America magazine. In this segment he explained how he used social media in his work.


“On Being”. James Martin — Finding God in All Things. http://www.onbeing.org/program/james-martin-finding-god-in-all-things/transcript/9072 - main_content. Accessed 4 December 2016.



 
Then we created a Twitter-length message telling distant aliens about Unitarian Universalism,





We also experimented with sending that message into space using paper airplanes.