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Bob Kahn

Programming Power? Does Learning to Code Empower Kids? | DMLcentral - 0 views

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  • it’s clear that even professional coding is a complex and precarious activity.
  • incessant updating of skills and fluency in different programming languages, coding packages, operating systems, and so on—such an impossible learning requirement that many programming experts barely know what they are doing.
  • “ignorant expertise,”
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  • Even more alarmingly, the technical complexity of programming means that many programmers are so absorbed in solving technical problems that they overlook the human and social consequences of what they are producing
  • software development has high failure rates to show it.
  • how dominant capitalist algorithmic ideology works.
  • how political and economic ambitions around learning to code rest on glossy representations that bear little resemblance with the reality of instability, dysfunction and failure in the software landscape, or with the ideologies underpinning its practices.
  • about the democratizing potential of programming and arguments advocating learning to code that are based on ideas about learning to produce and not just consume technologies.
  • it’s important to be a little cautious of the claims around “democratisation,” “co-production,” “presumption,” and so on, that accompany these kinds of arguments.
  • He argues that the software algorithms running in social media are a new source of social power, or “algorithmic power,” that is increasingly altering the actual functioning of culture in everyday settings.
  • commercial sponsorship of learning to code initiatives and activities by many of today’s most powerful social media and computing companies is evidence of this entanglement of media engagement and corporate power in an increasingly algorithmic culture.
  • be studied and researched carefully in order to get past the hype.
  • Looking at learning to code in terms of power serves as a reminder that while programming may be an empowering activity, it is also shaped by wider issues of power in educational technology, the political and economic power that shapes programming, and the algorithmic power shaping cultural participation with digital media.
elisabeth abarbanel

MAKE | Transforming a School Library Into a Makerspace - 0 views

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shared by elisabeth abarbanel on 18 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • elisabeth abarbanel on 18 Sep 13
     
    i would love to do something like this.. need budget, staff, and time! and space! maybe the minilab.. :-) It is where I'd like to see our Makerbreak evolve..
Bob Kahn

A Digital Future: K-12 Technology by 2018 - 0 views

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  • Bob Kahn on 17 Sep 13
     
    Matthew Lynch describes 1, 3, 5 year ed tech horizons for k-12 learning.
Scott Perloff

Alan Kay has some choice criticisms about the iPad | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - 2 views

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  • Bob Kahn on 15 Sep 13
     
    Interesting article- One of the criticisms is addressed by the author of the article with his description of kids writing apps. I cannot seem to find any other real substantial criticisms. What do you think?
Scott Perloff

Gamestar Mechanic - 2 views

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elisabeth abarbanel

Recite - 1 views

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