6/24 : Digital Technology

read:

• DTC 101 Textbook: 01 Digital Technology
• Program or Be Programmed: Introduction and  1. Time

blog prompt:

What about digital technology makes it a unique tool or medium in human history?

video talk

zoom class activity:

Discuss Program or Be Programmed.

How has digital technology changed culture and social interaction during and now after the pandemic?

creative activity (to do in class):

view this video about Glitch art:

Complete the Digital Technology chapter’s “unit exercise”:

1.  Find an image using Google search and download it
2. Change the file name of the extension from .png or .jpg to .txt
3.  Open the new file in a text editor (such as Sublime Text) and observe the arrangement of alphanumeric symbols. This is code for the browser to display pixels in a frame.
4. Change some of this code. Search and replace one letter or number. But don’t change too much or you might break the image!
5. Change the file back to its original extension – .png or .jpg
6. Open the file and observe the changes to the image when its underlying code is altered.