COMP7004 Debate 1400-1500

We held or first of four debates using MS Teams.

C Programming Lab 1400-1600

Nobody turned up

Physical Computing Lab 08

Lots of students were on TinkerCad working away. But I only had a few log on to MS Teams to ask questions

C Programming lab

Two lab sessions thins morning.

Only 1 customer for the 0900-1100 slot. Nobody turned up for the 1100-1330 slot. I left the meeting at 1143

COMP7004 Lectures

Posted two videos to YouTube play list

COMP7004 Lectures

Posted three videos to YouTube play list

C Prob lab

MS Teams meeting 1400-1600
I invited way more students than are I my lab group. But I didn't want to miss anyone. I think I invited all of SD2 and SDH2.

Nobody turned up by 1415. I left.

Physcial Computing Lab

1000-1200 MS Team meeting for lab group
Reasonable attendance.  No issues.

COMP7004 Meeting

We had a quick meeting with the students who were able to attend to discuss options for assessment and to test the technology.

COMP7004 Update

I have posted linked to resources on Canvas.

I have added classes to the YouTube playlist I use for this class.

COMP7004 Class 07.2 & 07.3

We watched a documentary about Facebook content moderation policies and the work of moderators at CPL in Dublin.

Afterward we had an interesting discussion about this issues raised. We were not impressed by Facebook's policies.

COMP7004 Class 07.1

We continued our look at the GDPR. We spent a lot of time discussing the right to be forgotten.

COMP7004 Class 06.2 &06.3

We watched the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror.

We discussed some of the issues it raised.

We watched a video bout the Social Credit system in China.

We discussed some of the issues it raised.

COMP7004 Class 06.1

We continued our trawl through the interesting parts of the GDPR

COMP7004 Class 05.4

This was an extra class.

But only one student turned up so I called it off.

COMP7004 Class 05.2 & 05.3

We watched the Arkangel episode of Black Mirror.

We discussed a number of issues raised in the episodes: the con flight between child protection and privacy, tracking, filtering.

I asked students to look at the activity Google had recorded for them using myactivity.google.com

COMP7004 Class 05.1

We discussed the DDR and how people in different countries can have different levels of sensitivity to potential abuses of surveillance technology.

We continued our look at privacy and began our examination of the GRPR.

COMP7004 Class 04.3.& 04.4

We watched Das Leben Der Anderen (The Lives of Others). This movie depicts life in the final years of the DDR (East Germany).  We will discuss this in the next class.

Students might also find Deutschland '83 interesting. Although some people have criticised this for presenting too light hearted a view of life in the DDR. It is available to steam for free at Channel4.com

COMP7004 Class 04.2

We looked at data protection principles very briefly. We will look at data protection again.

We looked at the sources of law in Ireland. In particular we saw the difference between a Directive and a Regulation.

COMP7004 Class 04.1 (extra class)

We looked some more at privacy and discussed whether we value yo it for its intrinsic or extrinsic properties.  We settled on extrinsic.

We discussed the video we watch last week about credit rating agencies and proposed some solutions to the problems raised in the video. Most of the solutions look a lot like the rules we have in Europe.