Author Archives: nardineemad

What I learned in this course is how digital literacy as a whole is extremely important, and how dangerous the digital world can be. One of the videos that really made me think was when we saw a video of a coffee house learning very personal details about their clients from their Facebook pages. ThisContinue reading “Final Reflection.”

I learned to use new tools like slack, zoom, hypothesis, google forms and google slides as well. I have learned from zoom how it’s so easy to connect with people around us and how an easy tool like that can help so many students around the world attend classes in the time of crisis likeContinue reading “tools reflection”

I chose to go with the taught path to have a hands on experience. I started with the lesson on smartphones, it seemed interesting to find out more about the thing that spends more time with us than our friends and family. The lesson was very interesting. It first gave some info about how theContinue reading “Digital literacies pathway”

I chose to create a game about Panic buying. my research was in the form of observation and two interviews one with my mom who is the best example of a panic buyer and another interview with a small grocery store owner, my questions were mainly about clients who regularly buy from him to tryContinue reading “My empathy project (digital game)”

I actually really enjoyed the game, i used to play Pictionary with my friends which is similar but with people rather than an AI and here bias is seen. bias towards what the AI is built to see and what it is designed to recognize. Creating an algorithm that is unbiased is very hard thereContinue reading “Bias in Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence”

My game takes you on a journey to and through the supermarket, with different situations you have to make decisions based on the Situation described. My aim in the game is to make whomever is playing think of why he is over panicking and over buying products. is it because people around him are buyingContinue reading “My Digital Game”

I decided to talk about stress shopping and how people went crazy with grocery shopping and over bought supplies they don’t need. In order to conduct research i decided to go to supermarkets and observe, this however has been a bit time consuming and had limitations like the curfew and me not being to goContinue reading “Game Research”

These games are all eye openers, experiencing this and putting my self in other people’s shoes made me see how privileged i am. The two games we did in class were a bit hard, especially spent. I couldn’t last the whole month and when i had the option not to pay for something i didn’t,Continue reading “Games Reflection”

I saw a meme yesterday that i just couldn’t resist sharing, its a meme that talks about the weather and corona virus. What i like about this meme is not just because it’s a famous song or how clever it is. In times of crisis i always admire the simplicity of the Egyptian people. ThereContinue reading “Egyptians in crisis”