Technology Blackout Assignment Case Study Solution

Technology Blackout Assignment Case Study

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Technology Blackout Assignment Case Study

One of the major objectives of this course is to have you examine your relationship to technology and

technology’s association to your body. To help us accomplish this objective, everyone in the course will spend 24

hours giving up access to all communication and entertainment technologies (defined as electronicallymediated).

This means, no cell phone calls, no texting, no email, no Twitter, no Facebook or Snapchat, no

landline calls, no TV, no radio, no MP3 players, no gaming consoles, no Internet, no computer use, or anything

else that lies within the spirit of this exercise.

This means that you need to plan ahead! You might need to get an assignment completed before the day it is due.

You will need to let you friends, family, coworkers, and professors know about your unavailability.

You will need to set in place a way for emergency information to get to you (often calling a roommate, RA or

friend who knows your whereabouts). You will probably need to think about how you will spend your time

because temptation will likely be strong. Face-to-face communication is of course fine. Writing things using pen

and paper is fine. Reading books and physical papers is fine: use your library and copy machine.

We will do this activity now through the end of semester. You may replace any one week of Reflection in the

course with this Technology Blackout Reflection. You may choose any 24 hours during the semester, but I

highly encourage you to to start sooner rather than later (if you are unable to go a full 24 hours you will have to

try again the next day) before the pressures of midterms and assignments in other courses will pile up and make

it more difficult to complete this assignment. I will be participating with you and bring my reflections about my

own experience to class as well. This exercise will require some level of sacrifice, but it is important to

accomplish our objective and will reveal associations that were not present before the exercise.

FIELD NOTES

In order to get an accurate view of your experience you will be jotting quick reflections on paper every three

hours (that you are awake) during the assignment. Reflection worksheets are available from the instructor and

can be downloaded from D2L.

Every three hours pull out the sheet and you will be asked to jot down answers to the following questions:

• · What time is it?
• · Where are you?
• · What are you doing?
• · Who are you with? (don’t use proper names – just describe the people in terms of their

relationship to you – e.g. “study group”, “guys from my frat,” “my boyfriend” etc.)

• · Have you been tempted to use technology in the last 3 hours? What devices/programs and why?
• · Any other details or reflections of interest

MINI-PAPER

The paper should be approximately 4 pages or 1000 words. The paper will have two sections (written before and

after the 24 hours of disconnect). Please weave these sections together with an introduction and summary.

PART I

The first section of the paper will be written PRIOR to your 24 hours of disengagement. In the first section of

the paper I want you to answer the following questions:

• · What are you doing to prepare for disconnecting?
• · What do you think will be the most challenging aspect of disconnecting? The easiest?
• · What technology will be the most difficult to give up and why? What will be the easiest and

why?

• · Are you excited about this assignment? Why or why not?

PART II

The second section of your paper will be written AFTER your period of disconnect. Your answers to these

questions and overall reflections on the experience will comprise the second half of the paper.

• · What technologies ended up being the most difficult and easiest to give up? How was this

different from your expectations? Why?

• · What ended up being the most challenging aspect of disconnect? What ended up being the

easiest How was this different from your expectations?

• · What surprised you most about the experience?
• · Was your disconnection difficult for others in your life? Who? Why? In what ways?
• · Did you enjoy this assignment? Do you think you might ever try something like this again? Why

or why not?

Be certain that your paper honestly addresses what you really missed by being off-line for a day, the reactions of

others, what if anything you gained by being off-line, and any insights or frustrations that participating in the

exercise invoked. Make sure to include concrete details about what you did with your time and whether you will

think differently about your technology use in the future. Do not use first names in the paper (say “my

roommate” rather than “Bob”). You may draw from readings from the course to discuss what was illuminated

(or possibly what you found incorrect!) by participating in this exercise.

GRADING RUBRIC

MINI PAPER POINTS METRIC

1 Well-Written: Proper grammar, spelling and sentence structure

2 Addressing Issues: Does the paper address each of the questions on

this sheet? I expect evidence that you thought about the questions both

before and after the time of disconnect. Your answers can be weaved

into the document and should not be numbered or in bullet form.

2 Quality of Reflection of the Experience: It is important to be selfreflective

and honest in your assessment of the experience. Does the

paper provide evidence that you have thoroughly thought through the

experience and your relationship with technology?

FIELD NOTES

1 Legibility: Can we read your handwriting?

4 Thoroughness and Concrete Details: Concrete details are the

key to good field notes. Do the field notes show an effort to

answer questions at regular 2-3 hour periods? Is it apparent that

the student took the assignment seriously?

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RUBRIC QUALITY OF RESPONSE NO RESPONSE POOR / UNSATISFACTORY SATISFACTORY GOOD EXCELLENT Content (worth a maximum of 50% of the total points) Zero points:  Student failed to submit the final paper. 20 points out of 50:  The essay illustrates poor understanding of the relevant material by failing to address or incorrectly addressing the relevant content; failing to identify or inaccurately explaining/defining key concepts/ideas; ignoring or incorrectly explaining key points/claims and the reasoning behind them; and/or incorrectly or inappropriately using terminology; and elements of the response are lacking. 30 points out of 50:  The essay illustrates a rudimentary understanding of the relevant material by mentioning but not full explaining the relevant content; identifying some of the key concepts/ideas though failing to fully or accurately explain many of them; using terminology, though sometimes inaccurately or inappropriately; and/or incorporating some key claims/points but failing to explain the reasoning behind them or doing so inaccurately.  Elements of the required response may also be lacking. 40 points out of 50:  The essay illustrates solid understanding of the relevant material by correctly addressing most of the relevant content; identifying and explaining most of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology; explaining the reasoning behind most of the key points/claims; and/or where necessary or useful, substantiating some points with accurate examples.  The answer is complete. 50 points:  The essay illustrates exemplary understanding of the relevant material by thoroughly and correctly addressing the relevant content; identifying and explaining all of the key concepts/ideas; using correct terminology explaining the reasoning behind key points/claims and substantiating, as necessary/useful, points with several accurate and illuminating examples.  No aspects of the required answer are missing. Use of Sources (worth a maximum of 20% of the total points). Zero points:  Student failed to include citations and/or references. Or the student failed to submit a final paper. 5 out 20 points:  Sources are seldom cited to support statements and/or format of citations are not recognizable as APA 6th Edition format. There are major errors in the formation of the references and citations. And/or there is a major reliance on highly questionable. The Student fails to provide an adequate synthesis of research collected for the paper. 10 out 20 points:  References to scholarly sources are occasionally given; many statements seem unsubstantiated.  Frequent errors in APA 6th Edition format, leaving the reader confused about the source of the information. There are significant errors of the formation in the references and citations. And/or there is a significant use of highly questionable sources. 15 out 20 points:  Credible Scholarly sources are used effectively support claims and are, for the most part, clear and fairly represented.  APA 6th Edition is used with only a few minor errors.  There are minor errors in reference and/or citations. And/or there is some use of questionable sources. 20 points:  Credible scholarly sources are used to give compelling evidence to support claims and are clearly and fairly represented.  APA 6th Edition format is used accurately and consistently. The student uses above the maximum required references in the development of the assignment. Grammar (worth maximum of 20% of total points) Zero points:  Student failed to submit the final paper. 5 points out of 20:  The paper does not communicate ideas/points clearly due to inappropriate use of terminology and vague language; thoughts and sentences are disjointed or incomprehensible; organization lacking; and/or numerous grammatical, spelling/punctuation errors  10 points out 20:  The paper is often unclear and difficult to follow due to some inappropriate terminology and/or vague language; ideas may be fragmented, wandering and/or repetitive; poor organization; and/or some grammatical, spelling, punctuation errors 15 points out of 20:  The paper is mostly clear as a result of appropriate use of terminology and minimal vagueness; no tangents and no repetition; fairly good organization; almost perfect grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage. 20 points:  The paper is clear, concise, and a pleasure to read as a result of appropriate and precise use of terminology; total coherence of thoughts and presentation and logical organization; and the essay is error free. Structure of the Paper (worth 10% of total points) Zero points:  Student failed to submit the final paper. 3 points out of 10: Student needs to develop better formatting skills. The paper omits significant structural elements required for and APA 6th edition paper. Formatting of the paper has major flaws. The paper does not conform to APA 6th edition requirements whatsoever. 5 points out of 10: Appearance of final paper demonstrates the student’s limited ability to format the paper. There are significant errors in formatting and/or the total omission of major components of an APA 6th edition paper. They can include the omission of the cover page, abstract, and page numbers. Additionally the page has major formatting issues with spacing or paragraph formation. Font size might not conform to size requirements.  The student also significantly writes too large or too short of and paper 7 points out of 10: Research paper presents an above-average use of formatting skills. The paper has slight errors within the paper. This can include small errors or omissions with the cover page, abstract, page number, and headers. There could be also slight formatting issues with the document spacing or the font Additionally the paper might slightly exceed or undershoot the specific number of required written pages for the assignment. 10 points: Student provides a high-caliber, formatted paper. This includes an APA 6th edition cover page, abstract, page number, headers and is double spaced in 12’ Times Roman Font. Additionally, the paper conforms to the specific number of required written pages and neither goes over or under the specified length of the paper.
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