EFS 688/688V - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Listening and Discussion - Section 3
EFS 688/688V - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Listening and Discussion - Section 3
EFS 688/688V
Listening & Discussion 3
Notes Week 3.1
I. Results from dictation test. Look carefully at your errors: what can you learn from them about your strong and weak areas of English?
II. Greely's lecture
A. Review notes in pairs
B. Questions
C. Suppose there was a non-invasive, portable fMRI that was about 95% accurate and potentially available for about the price of a computer.
1) What would it be used for?
2) How should it be regulated?
3) In what ways would society change if it were unregulated?
4) What if it could be used without the person being scanned knowing it?
III. Introduction to human enhancement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2HwiQJxJ8c; www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs1Zw-HTtrc; www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJDvdEQJOew
IV. Gap filling exercise at www.ted.com/talks/nick_bostrom_on_our_biggest_problems.html -- Preparation for Friday's class, which will have a guest presenter, Ken Romeo. He will lead you through a "competitive" gap filling activity that will be videotaped as a demonstration for language teacher education here and elsewhere.
V. Discussion preparation: Human enhancement with Bionextra Corp.
VI. Preparation for Friday's lecture: Mark Applebaum, "What's the Music Trading On?": www.stanford.edu/dept/lc/efs/2007/summer/CSSLecture1.html. (we probably won't have time to go over this Friday in class)
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HOMEWORK
1) Prepare for Prof. Applebaum's lecture Friday: a) listen to more of www.stanford.edu/dept/lc/efs/2007/summer/CSSLecture1.html (not all of it though--save some!); b) Look at the vocabulary list: select several (or all) of the words you don't know and look them up--he will probably use much of the same vocabulary
2) Prepare the Bionextra assignment for the next class