CLASS LINKS 2023 First Two Weeks Weeks Three and Four Weeks Five and Six Young and Sullivan Presentations Unit 2 Strategies Unit 3 Contribution CLASS LINKS 2022 First Three Weeks Tufekci, Killer Mike, Hamilton & Logan Stevenson and Assignment 1 Assignment 1 Prompt, Rubric and Peer Review Sept 20 Hari and Beginning Drafting Unit 2: Strategies and Hannah Jones Unit 2 Drafting Material  Unit 3 Materials Critical Digital Literacy

CLASS LINKS 2023

First Two Weeks

• Introduction to RWS100 and Rhetoric   
• Introduction to Key Terms of Argument  
• Snape and Kristof group work Google doc   
• Basic terms Kahoot quiz
  
• Gerstein Google doc group work  and AI exercises
• SubText  

Weeks Three and Four

• Group work 09/06:  analysing critical perspectives on A.I.
• AI Bias, and the Politics of Algorithms (slides)
• YouTube and bias towards arousal, outrage and extremism (WSJ experiment) 
• Bias, Algorithms, Safiya Noble, Dylan Roof and ChCh Shooter
  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1re0v5cGZCYs6jJF7kFVsAs31F0TrVZsHleBeGXqA1Oo/edit#slide=id.p2
• Bias and AI - the  Bloomberg study 
• RWS textbook 
• Using AI to summarize complex texts as a way into analysis - comparing the results of POE and Bing
• Visions of the Future? 
  1) A.I. Applies to the Ivy League  2) 7% of Intuit Workforce Fired As Focus Shifts to AI-Driven Platform
  3) Will A.I. replace Radiologists? 2019 study suggests radiologists who learn A.I. will replace those who don't. Since then the picture
  seems more dire, as numbers of medical students applying to become radiologists has decreased dramatically. 
• A.I. Is Changing Everything. Prompt Engineering & the importance of Rhetoric. 
•  Constitutional A.I.?  
• Resisting dehumanization in the age of AI - Emily Bender
• Boston Robotics over time. Let's avoid Black Mirror?  
• Videos: Sal Khan, TED talk, “How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education,” and Gary Marcus TED talk, "The urgent risks of runaway AI"
• Working on the introduction - assignment 1 prompt, rubric, student samples (Google Doc)  
• Experimenting with AI to draft 

Weeks Five and Six

1. Dinsinfo, Breaking News, and AI. UNC experience. 
2. RWS100 Textbook (Google Doc). Also available as a pdf
3. Annotating and analyzing sample introductions (Google doc group work) 
4. Experimenting with A.I.: rhetorical situation, claims and evidence, body paragraphs, evaluation (Google Doc)
5. Zero drafts - post a link to yours here. 
6. Drafting and group work for Sept 25 
7. Peer review form for humans assignment 1, Sept 27 
8. A.I. peer review activities Sept 27 
9. Another perspective on the Luddites 

Young and Sullivan

• Handout with exercises and group work
• Young & Sullivan Slides and group work
  (background on orality/literacy)

Presentations

• Guidelines for assignment 1 group presentations 

Unit 2 Strategies

• Assignment 2 prompt, PEER REVIEW rubric, and guidelines 
• Strategies slides; Kotex, "So Obnoxious"  
• Handout with exercises on strategies 
• Google Doc for Killer Mike,  MacNamee, Bryce 
• Hari Google doc group work 
• AI prompt ideas for paper 2 (you may also find past prompts useful)

• Post a link to drafting work done today (Nov 01, Oct 30 and 25)   

• STUDENT DRAFTS SECTIONS WITH MY FEEDBACK AND REVISED VERSIONS 

• ADVICE ON ANALYZING STRATEGIES AND MORE SAMPLES

• FULL DRAFT WITH ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIES

• DRAFT SECTIONS AND MY COMMENTS

• BING ON EVALUATION WITH SOURCES: https://sl.bing.net/fcvqz98nqx2 

Unit 3 Contribution

1. Prompt Assignment 3 
2. Google Doc: check in and demagoguery group work

3. Intro to demagoguery and authoritarian populism slides.  Examples, video  links, links to slides

4. Factors contributing to culture of demagoguery    
5. Demagoguery Excerpts 1.  Excerpts 2 (fringe to mainstream)  
6. Wallace video (main part starts at 7.12 minutes)  
7. Wallace, Warner and English excerpts  
8. Paper 3 Ideas - Obama on A.I.    Gary Marcus on A.I. - Wired Magazine.
9. Powerpoint introduction authoritarian populism 2023 - Google slides, powerpoint   (summary of slides.)
10. The Rhetoric of Authoritarian Populism handout. Statements preceding January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol. and excerpts from  the president's speech on Jan 6.  
11. Group work Nov 13 - examining texts through the lens of authoritarian populism     
12. Collection of violent political rhetoric - political ads, candidate statements, etc.     
13. Movie at Ellipse Jan. 6, 2021. Played after final speeches Jan 6:  https://vimeo.com/508134765 
14. Stanley's interpretation: “Movie at the Ellipse" 
15. Authoritarian Rhetoric in the 2020 Election – a Short Multimodal Analysis. Short video of statements by people who stormed Capitol. Examples of authoritarian rhetoric?  
16. Google slides for evaluation of arguments. Politics of definitions 
17. Google slides on Fallacies.  Fallacies: Slippery slope Futurama, and also 31 Fallacies in 8 minutes
18. Miller and Shieh on campus smoking rules. Crichton and respondent - evaluation and fallacies  
19. New A.I. Tools to Discuss and Test - handout Nov 27 
20. Google Doc experiment Nov 27 

CLASS LINKS 2022

First Three Weeks

• RWS100 First Day Activities August 23, 2022
• Introduction to RWS100 (slides) 
• Basic terms for argument 
• Basic terms Kahoot quiz
• Snape and Kristof group work 
• Kristof, Rifkin, Tufekci and McNamee group work 

Tufekci, Killer Mike, Hamilton & Logan

• Housing Segregation and Redlining in America: A Short History | Code Switch | NPR (6 minutes)
• Short video from 1975 of a group of young black kids in NYC who stumble upon a Memorial day parade which turns out to be
  a protest against blacks being allowed to buy houses in the area.  One minute TikTok on how housing inequality drives educational inequality
  (“Adam Ruins Everything”). 
• Short video on how racially restrictive covenants impacted San Diego  
• San Diego and Housing: "How discriminatory covenants shaped San Diego homeownership." ,Cristina Kim, Nov 17, 2021 and The hidden history
  of racism in San Diego deeds, and Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country.
• NPR Reckoning with Race series,  Race the House we Live In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW764dXEI_8 

Stevenson and Assignment 1

• Group discussion questions for Stevenson
• Sample draft sections Stevenson (senior students) 
• Drafting resources for paper 1 
• Sample paper 1 drafts using Stevenson 
• If you wish to explore Stevenson's ideas in a future paper, you may find these resources useful.  You could also use some
  of this for the conclusion of paper 1.
• Opening scene of Watchmen, which depicts the Tulsa Race massacre 

Assignment 1 Prompt, Rubric and Peer Review

• Assignment 1 prompt 
• Assignment 1 rubric and description of points 
• Peer review form for paper 1 
• PEER REVIEW SIGN UP SHEET 
• They Say annotated/highlighted
• Overview of Elements of Basic Rhetorical Analysis (Google slide)
• They Say I Say Templates summarized 
• G and B's "Template of Templates."  

Sept 20 Hari and Beginning Drafting

• Some notes on 09/20 Homework
• Hari Group Work 
• Quotation and metadiscourse quiz 
• Related text on the connection between mental health and politics - could perhaps use in conclusion. This text extends Hari's
  argument, adds a more scholarly focus, and suggests something equally radical, namely that an explosion of mental health issues may 
  have political roots. "Mental Health is Political," by Professor Danielle Carr at the Institute for Society and Genetics at U.C.L.A. 

Unit 2: Strategies and Hannah Jones

• Kahoot on strategies quiz

• Assignment 2 Prompt, Guidelines and Rubric. RWEA pp. 39-46, 60-75. 

• Intro to strategies 

• Handout - strategies exercises  

• Michael Crichton debating Climate science (pdf,  google doc) Parry, "Branding a Condition," Short texts - college apps, Kuznar and Monuments

• Google doc group work - Crichton, Bryce, Warner, Kuznar 

• Evaluating arguments - slides 

• Group work google doc HNJ 

Unit 2 Drafting Material 

• Tips to help discuss strategies
• Paper 2 Tips, Advice, and Sample Student drafts 
• Sample Nikole Hannah Jones Student Draft (not a model but may help you see how students approach the assignment).
• Sample Student Draft with Teacher Comments
• Sample student paragraphs Oct 3 2022 
• Peer review sign up for paper 2, and the peer review form.
• Conference sign up form

Unit 3 Materials

• Assignment 3 Options
• Analytic Review Template (Optional) 
• Extend, illustrate, complicate, qualify, challenge 
• Assignment 3 prompt 
• Google doc group work 
• Sample lens work - 1 page lens (demagoguery), target texts (Wallace, Warner, Earnest)
• Lenses: a week of conspiracy theories; extremist, demagogic and language and the threat to democracy Powerpoint version, Google slides.  Jan 6 excerpts 
• GOOGLE doc for group work on Wallace, Warner, Earnest.
    
• Tufekci - what is free speech when algorithms, bots, doxxing, and information warfare are everywhere?  
• Examples of the kinds of information warfare we face - Heart of Texas mosque protest,  BLM Martial Arts disinfo project, and videos of Tufekci.
• Project idea - using the class framework for understanding demagogic./authoritarian language in new wave of violent political ads  
• Roster/check in, group questions on Tufekci and Hassan, and initial project ideas 

Critical Digital Literacy

• Killing in the Name (RATM) starting 1.50. This could be Wineburg's complaint - "Now You Do What They (Teachers) Told You" 
• Wineburg's one page list of "Digital Hacks," my list of basic tools to improve critical digital literacy, “9 Googling tips that will save you hundreds of hours.”
• Introduction to Wineburg and critical digital literacy 
• Example - how to search critically 
• EXERCISE - evaluating sites and sources 
• Fires in California - Accident or Jewish Space Lasers? You decide.  

• Twitter and Covid misinformation:  "Twitter said it will no longer enforce its longstanding Covid misinformation policy, 
  yet another sign of how Elon Musk plans to transform the social media company he bought a month ago." 
  https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/tech/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy  
• Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa on Late Show says social media has “used free speech to stifle free speech.”
• Fuentes and Kanye meet president Trump.  
• https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1592598676886949888 
• https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1596107372992176128?s=12&t=FUdtX9WkIlFkxa633uCcYA
• kanye, Alex Jones, Fuentes  
• Algorithmic protest The protests in China are using blank A4 sheets of paper instead of protest signs - to make their protest visible
  but not searchable to AI content moderation. It's being called the A4 revolution. Chinese government censors are struggling to delete all images of blank paper from the internet.
  https://twitter.com/jilltxt/status/1597905246776594433
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11479717/Xi-Jinpings-censors-overwhelmed-scrub-rebels-blank-sheets-paper-Internet.html
  
  
• Andrew Anglin - background, SPLC, and news from Montana. The story, a complaint, another arguing this mainstreams nazism,