94677 Technology Lab 3: Exchange and Influence
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Credit points: 8 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Requisite(s): 94676 Technology Lab 2: Connect and Network
Description
This subject investigates how technology can be used to exchange ideas or things and influence people, on a global scale. Whether engaging with the open source movement, crowdsourcing or crowdfunding, SoLoMo (Social Local Mobile Sharing) economy or the trust economy, collaborative consumption or global communication, students actively engage with and critically examine the growth of technological initiatives organised around democratic and participatory principles. Technological ideas that open up radical new ways of thinking about and organising global systems are explored. By this third lab, students have developed greater agency and authority in selecting and connecting tools and technologies, and presenting and evaluating arguments for alternative system solutions against a range of negotiated criteria.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
| 1. | Critique technological initiatives, in term of the principles and perspectives underpinning them |
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| 2. | Demonstrate ways in which technologies can be used to exchange ideas and influence others on a global scale |
| 3. | Use and contribute to relevant open source initiatives for global collaboration |
| 4. | Create technological prototypes to facilitate communication and collaboration across a range of contexts |
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
This subject contributes to the follwing course intended learning outcomes:
Apply abstraction and test proposed design for a digital application (CILO 1.4)
Develop models and prototype using appropriate digital techniques, tools and technologies (CILO 1.5)
Make technological decisions that recognise the humanity of others by engaging ethically and sensitively to the values of particular groups, communities, organisations or cultures (CILO 5.4)
Teaching and learning strategies
This subject will consist of 4 hours per week of experimental technology lab classes, supplemented by online modules and activities.
Content (topics)
- Technological tools for global collaboration
- The open source movement
- Values-based decision making in tool selection and design
- Emergence and impact of technologies in global (complex) systems
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Selecting tools for values-based influence and exchange
| Type: | Case study |
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| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 50% |
Assessment task 2: Debating technologies
| Type: | Presentation |
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| Groupwork: | Group, group assessed |
| Weight: | 30% |
Assessment task 3: Influencing systems: gaming for impact
| Type: | Project |
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| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed |
| Weight: | 20% |
Minimum requirements
Students must attempt each assessment and achieve an overall pass in this subject.