The artist Lynn Randolph collaborated with Donna Haraway to create this painting titled Cyborg.

After class, leave a comment on this blog post summarizing the reading and lecture. In your summaries, you should think about and mention connections that you might find between Haraway and the earlier readings. Keep doing this throughout the semester–drawing connections on your own. This is an important part of the cognitive work that I want you to perform in our class.

Language and meaning, like the ball in the gif above, is always in play.

You can post your summary of the reading and lecture in a comment made to this blog post.

Please post your summary of Mazlish’s “The Fourth Discontinuity” to this blog post. Some of you already have. There’s plenty of time to get yours turned in today, so no worries.

After class today, write a 250-word summary of Ong’s “Writing is a Technology That Restructures Thought” and post it as a comment to this blog post. Your summary should include summary of the reading and summary of the class lecture. Include what you see as the main points from each.

Post your 250-word summary of Mufwene’s “Language as Technology” essay and class lecture as a comment made to this blog post.

After today’s class, write a 250-word summary of the Wade article and today’s in-class discussion. It is due before our next class.

Remember to write and save your summary in the cloud or on your computer/disk, and then copy-and-paste it into a comment made to this blog post.

Also, I would recommend watching these two TED talks for additional background information on the Wade article and the upcoming Mufwene essay:

Before our next class, write at least 250 words summarizing the important points from the reading and today’s lecture and post your summary as a comment to this blog post.

An important thing to remember for your summaries is that you should include the name of the person who wrote a given day’s reading. Names are important, because it gives them credit for their ideas and writing, and it demonstrates that you know how to acknowledge from where/who those ideas come to us.

A second important thing to remember is that you should write and save your summaries somewhere else before copy-and-pasting them into the comment box. This protects the writing that you do in case anything were to happen to erase your writing during the comment posting process on OpenLab.

A third important thing to remember is that you should copyedit your writing before copy-and-pasting it into our OpenLab site. This means that you should read through it again and run spell/grammar check before saving it and copy-and-pasting it.

For this after-class writing assignment, please leave a comment on this blog post of at least 250 words summarizing the reading and the lecture in class. In particular, write about the shift from oral to literate culture and literate to digital culture in your response.

Check the syllabus linked above in the site header for Tuesday’s upcoming reading.