My Reflection on Class I feel that throughout the semester, I had learned a great deal from this course. I had learned a great deal of the history of the digital age, and the period of technological development going back centuries before it. The contributions of figures such as Ava Lovelace helped increase my understanding …
I thought our discussion this week was very interesting and engaging. I personally do not use Siri or other smart assistants that often mostly because it annoys me, but it was cool to hear about others’ perspectives and uses for smart assistants. Although I think smart assistants like Siri have […]
I was not sure what the content around the history of the digital age and/or digital history would entail; I assumed it had to do with digitizing different artifacts but after this week’s discussion I learned it encompasses much more than that. I especially liked out discussion/comparison about how students […]
This class gave me a much better understanding of the progression of information through history, how that affected the creation of different technologies, and how that relates to where we are at today. I think understanding different forms of communication changes the perspective of technology we have today to open up to more possibilities and …
I enjoyed the discussions we had this week on AI. I was really interested in the article “The newest version of ChatGPT passed the US …
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this class. As I have stated before, this was my first history class at UMW, so I was not sure what I was getting myself into. I had heard good things about this class and Professor McClurken so I was excited to start. I can honestly […]
For this assignment, I had to create an image and a 2 page essay with an AI generator on a historical topic. As seen from the above images, I chose to focus on George Washington. The art on the right is a famous painting created by Gilbert Stuart. The …
This week it was very interesting that we talked about AI and how significant it has been these last few years. It was also really […]
For the image, I used Canva Image Generator. The first prompt I used was “Crazy Horse,” and it generated images of mountains with Native clothing details, which was really odd. However, when I put in “portrait of Crazy Horse,” it generated this image. It is important to note that through my research, there are no […]
Alexa – Amazon Echo Commercial I found this commercial to be really interesting. Especially when the daughter asks “does it listen all the time?” and the Dad responds, “no, only when you say Alexa.” This is incredibly interesting to me because I feel like there has been a lot of talk about how our technology […]