I am intrigued by the idea of teaching some more advanced and “scholarly” ideas to my LIB200. Today I am interested Karen’s idea of “the fetish.”  I would need to bring my students up to speed on the concept using …

The most essential idea I can think of for this semester’s LIB200 class at the end of Fall I, is the notion of humanity and what that means now and into the future. The reason I want to consider this …

The concerns that we are discussing are definitely part of my classes. In the Spring I’ll be teaching LIB200, which I teach as a US Empire class. Public health is an important aspect of our study, so I’ll be looking …

One of the ideas that seems interesting is the evolution of technology- machines, first substituting the body, replacing to some extent the physical and the manual labor, then computers, substituting the mind, replacing some aspect of the mind- thinking machines,  …

I have been developing my ENG101 around issues of digital technologies and I can see a possible cluster emerging around these lines. I believe students would be interested in debating many of the issues we discussed today: introducing media refusal, …

My current cluster is dealing with the issue of “Fame” or “Celebrity,” so it is hard to see how I am going to fit in this idea of the robot or robotics, except as the celebrity is an artificial construct …

I see a potential for introducing history of technology topics in the third segment of my LIB200 course dedicated to interrelations among philosophy, mathematics and science in Ancient Greece.

Possible questions may be:

1. The etymology of the word technology. …

1.  Are there any areas in our society where robots could make our lives easier?

2.  Explore the issues of access and cost for the different areas that you could imagine robots would be useful in our lives?

3.  What …