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SUD 425 Week 6 Assignment Analysis

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Week four five and six, I have enabled a substantial learning opportunity for the students in SUD 425. Being the 3 weeks in the middle of the quarter we have already gained the primary introductory knowledge of the course, and this can be considered the core of the class which utilized many learning styles to optimize each students learning experience. During week four the class focused on the world of the planner and how a planner can take different equity oriented roles or approaches. With the online assignment and reading I was able to discover the benefits and disadvantages being a planner has. One of the benefits planners have is access to more information and data than most people in their agency and more importantly the knowledge …show more content…

They must sift through the data to discover what is best for the community and if what they want is a plausible action for the agency. Another downside I have seen with planners at my work is that if any issue occurs with a project they oversaw, they are immediately placed in blame and looked to for an explanation. The assignment we did online asked us to choose one of the five equity oriented planning roles to address one of the social justice issues that matters to us personally. As a planner I would undertake the role of Strengthening Neighborhood-Based Community Development Corporations to address the decline in neighborhoods. This role supports local nonprofits and community organizations that "promote housing, commercial development, and neighborhood revitalization in lower-class, inner-city neighborhoods” (Carmon). This role helps speak for those who usually are not represented and fight capital improvement projects to downtown areas and focus on the community members who are in neighborhoods. These corporations can do what the city sometimes cannot in helping create affordable housing and revamping …show more content…

This topic I became very interested in after learning more about it with the homework and reading we did. I learned that the Network Society is a social group created through the medium of "online" or other relations that are not made face to face. Network Society can have vast impacts on the economy and political and cultural influences. Unlike in person communication to where you are limited by space and chance of seeing the right person, there are no special limitations on the network. The digital divide, although shrinking in many areas, is still an important issue that separates the world. With the increased reliance on the internet, people without access to it fall behind socially and possibly economically. The digital divide is eased with public digital infrastructure such as free computer usage at Libraries but it can still put certain populations at a severe disadvantage than those with internet access. With digital text books, online quizzes and online grades via canvas, it would be quite impossible to attend this college without adequate access to technology, which some still do not have. Technology has developed into a near necessity for many people in America and especially for every student enrolled in the University of Washington Tacoma. Another part of this Network Society is the governments integration into the society and their attempt to stay more relevant with the times

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