Cryptography

Okay, this is it: your final required blog post. For this assignment, write a 200 to 400 word post that responds to the question below that matches your role in the class debate scheduled for Monday, December 2nd. Note that we’ll be debating this statement:

The US government should be given wide latitude to use electronic surveillance in the interests of national security, even if that means citizens’ privacy is not always respected.

Here are the questions:

• Pro – You’ll argue in favor of this statement, so what are two or three reasons you find compelling to support the statement?
• Con – You’ll argue against this statement, so what are two or three reasons you find compelling to counter the statement?
• Jury – You’ll evaluate the arguments made by the Pro team and the Con team, so what criteria are you planning to use to evaluate those arguments?
• Notetakers – You’ll take notes during the debate, so what are two or three aspects of this debate (issues, arguments, examples) that you feel are essential to the debate?

Please (1) give your post a descriptive title, (2) assign it to the “Student Posts” category, and (3) give it at least three useful tags. Your post is due by 9:00 a.m. on Monday, December 2nd.

For your next blog assignment, listen to this interview with Chris Gilliard, professor of English at Macomb Community College, that I conducted for Leading Lines, the educational technology podcast I host. Then write a 200 to 4o0 word post in which you respond to a statement, argument, or example shared in the podcast that caught your attention.

Please (1) give your post a descriptive title, (2) assign it to the “Student Posts” category, and (3) give it at least three useful tags. Your post is due by 9:00 a.m. on Friday, November 22nd.

For your next blog assignment, write a post between 200 and 400 words in which you first quote, then react to a statement (a sentence or two) in Chapter 2 of danah boyd’s book It’s Complicated that caught your attention.  You might address how the statement affects your understanding of privacy, connections you see between the statement and other ideas we’ve discussed this semester, or your own opinions on the statement.

Please (1) give your post a descriptive title, (2) assign it to the “Student Posts” category, and (3) give it at least three useful tags. Your post is due by 9:00 a.m. on Monday, November 11th.

Note: If you’d rather leave a 200-400 word response on a peer’s post than start your own post, that’s fine!