DFI Day 8 Reflection
Agency vs Empowered - I like what Dorothy had to say about why they dropped the word agency and just went with empowerment. I agree that teachers often talk in fancy language with a whole lot of TLA's thrown in for good measure.
Empowerment is an interesting word when we think about the things that children get into conflict with adults about at school. How often are the problems at school related to children not wanting to do what an adult has asked them to do? Mmmmm. Do they have agency? Maybe. Are they empowered? Interesting. Seems to me there is a nuance that might differentiate agency and empowerment. Both words are begging a word or phrase that belongs inherently in the meaning of any sentence you create with either agency or empowerment. It seems to me that "agency" infers having agency or authority over something while empowerment has a nuance of "power to do". Maybe I am reading to much in to this but empowerment seems to me to have more of a focus on doing something while agency has a focus on authority.
Ethical questions of AI and autonomous vehicles. - This was a great activity that irritated the heck out of me because I didn't want to answer the questions but was forced to choose. https://moralmachine.mit.edu/ If you like an ethical conundrum try the Covid 19 questions.
Lots of things to think about this week.
I enjoyed having time to revisit some coding. I have used scratch a long time ago but I haven't really done anything with phython or java script before. I enjoyed the hour playing with toxicode and microbit. Also enjoyed this activity. http://compute-it.toxicode.fr/
I will have to do some swat for the exam.
Empowerment is an interesting word when we think about the things that children get into conflict with adults about at school. How often are the problems at school related to children not wanting to do what an adult has asked them to do? Mmmmm. Do they have agency? Maybe. Are they empowered? Interesting. Seems to me there is a nuance that might differentiate agency and empowerment. Both words are begging a word or phrase that belongs inherently in the meaning of any sentence you create with either agency or empowerment. It seems to me that "agency" infers having agency or authority over something while empowerment has a nuance of "power to do". Maybe I am reading to much in to this but empowerment seems to me to have more of a focus on doing something while agency has a focus on authority.
Ethical questions of AI and autonomous vehicles. - This was a great activity that irritated the heck out of me because I didn't want to answer the questions but was forced to choose. https://moralmachine.mit.edu/ If you like an ethical conundrum try the Covid 19 questions.
Lots of things to think about this week.
I enjoyed having time to revisit some coding. I have used scratch a long time ago but I haven't really done anything with phython or java script before. I enjoyed the hour playing with toxicode and microbit. Also enjoyed this activity. http://compute-it.toxicode.fr/
I will have to do some swat for the exam.
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