It’s your friendly neighbourhood blogger! Back with another unit end post, and some low quality puns. We did an entire unit on disruption, and how it’s changed the world, mainly through technology.

Let me give you a quick run down on (my thoughts on) disruption: It’s not good, or bad. Disruption is something that helps us move forward, but it can also make us move backwards. For example, the civil right movement with Martin Luther King Jr was big disruption that helped us move forward and talk about racial issues. A bad disruption, however, could be a hypothetical president who’s made out of bad vibes and Cheeto dust.

And what better way to talk about technological disruption than to go to Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley is where places like Facebook and Twitter started. For our trip, we went to San Diego, San Jose, and San Francisco.

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I really benefitted from this trip, because I got to see the real world examples of disruption, like IMB and the Castro.

So, Claire and I were partnered up to take advantage of the field school and do a project on disruption. We got to do a video on the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and how the habitats are similar to the ones they get in the wild, as well as if the Safari Park would be safer than their actual habitats in the wild.

We got to interview a real nice working at the Safari Park, and heard some amazing stories of animals surviving. And then it came time to make the video.

So, naturally, we made a podcast.

Okay, hear me out. We took a lot of videos, got some good interviews, and even got footage of inside the elephant enclosure:

It was all around a cool experience and a fun day at the safari park. But we felt like our podcast skills were stronger. So, using our fancy new mics, we recorded our voices. We talked about the habitats, how similar they are to the wild, and told a few stories about species surviving better in places like the safari park. One of the stories that we touch on in the podcast is about the California condors. Those used to be an endangered species until the rescue program at the Safari Park came in. Now, they’re thriving. Though, they are quite intimidating.

So, Claire and I made a podcast. It was really fun, and I learned a lot about disruption through the eyes of wild animals and wildlife programs. I’d definitely do a project on this topic again in a heartbeat.

To finish of the unit, we got to write an essay! The driving question was ‘how has technology acted as a disruption throughout history?’ I chose to focus on socialization, and took the stance that it made us less isolated:

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This essay was really cool to research, because it’s a topic that I’m interested in. I don’t know why, but I always find the idea of social media helping society really cool. It’s such a useful platform that people can use to contact people around the world. And, as you can see, I’d say it was a good disruption in society.

All in all, I really liked this unit. We got to learn about disruption in so many different ways, from technology, to society, to nature and animals. I’m going to continue looking into articles and books about disruption, such as Little Brother, or Console Wars (talks about the history of Nintendo and Sega. Awesome book).

That’s all for this post

Read Ya Later!

Sincerely, Me