I think you should all read Naehma's great post about Following, as I think she is raising all the issues related to the assignment.
Great post, great rant, worth discussing. You are right, Naehma, no doubt about it.
Neighborhood Narratives invites students to examine the city as a virtual and mixed reality space and investigates the complex means by which cell phones, GPS, mobile recording devices and social network games effect their knowledge of and relation to lived space.