The only suggestion I would make is to include a book that might supplement iSpy. As I mentioned in my other blog I thoroughly enjoyed the ideas and issues presented in that book. My only thought was that the must be a book out there that takes the opposing standpoint to this book, and it could provide for interesting discussions in class. People would be able to determine their feelings on the surveillance that today's Internet usage creates.
Also most of the books this semester seem to relate back to one another. For instance some of the issues in The Wisdom of Crowds and Millennial Makeover can be found in iSpy. Therefore a book that presents the arguments on the other side of these books would better inform and educate students in the class on another possible perspective to the issues at hand. I do not have a specific book in mind but that is just a suggestion.
I also think an interesting assignment would be to make the group behavior project begin the first week of class. The students could create a Facebook group that would study the behavior of crowds, and possibly the amount of surveillance users of Facebook are willing to include in their lives.
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I like your idea of creating a Facebook book group that would study the behavior of crowds in the beginning of the semester. I think that it's a good way to implement what we learn from the book, the Wisdom of Crowds as well as Facebook in general.
I agree that a Facebook group should have been created to study crowd behavior. Facebook would allow the class to get a lot more subjects and a diversity of opinion on our surveys. This is the one problem I had with my project.
i agree with having a book to counter iSpy. Even though the book has some valid points,many of the statements are extreme and it would be easier to discuss and understand if there was a way to hear the polar opposite and find something in the middle.
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