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Reynold Redekopp

New eBook - volume two of Manitoba Education and Technology | ManACE.ca - 22 views

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    A book written by Manitoba educators on how they are implementing Maker and Coder ideas. Edited by Mike Nantais and Reynold Redekopp
Reynold Redekopp

Library - Diigo - 8 views

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    An interesting read on how algorithms have embedded bias and how we need to be aware of this.
Reynold Redekopp

https://html5hive.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/C-sharp_eBook.pdf?utm_source=Zenva&utm... - 9 views

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    Free C3 intro book
Reynold Redekopp

What programming language should you learn first? - 15 views

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    Good read on which programming language to learn first.
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http://website.education.wisc.edu/kdsquire/manuscripts/insight.pdf - 24 views

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    Harnessing the Power of Games in Education
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Cell phones and African mining issues - 5 views

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    A TED talk about the mining of rare metals in Africa and some problems and actions we and students can take.
Reynold Redekopp

THE TECHNOLOGICAL CITIZEN » Articles - 28 views

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    Ethical Reflections on Modern Technology. A great resource for thinking about the implications of the technology we are building and technology as a state of mind.
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Sherry Turkle in Alive Enough? Reflecting on Our Technology [onBeing.org] - 14 views

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    Link to podcast interview with Sherry Turkle and her work on the computer-human relationship Expecting more from tech an less from people.
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ITSC - 12 views

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    ITSC conference sponsored by OETC - held in Feb in Portland Oregon
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Robert Putnam - Bowling Alone - Journal of Democracy 6:1 - 5 views

  • ocial scientists in several fields have recently suggested a common framework for understanding these phenomena, a framework that rests on the concept of social capital. 4 By analogy with notions of physical capital and human capital--tools and training that enhance individual productivity--"social capital" refers to features of social organization such as networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.
  • Whether or not bowling beats balloting in the eyes of most Americans, bowling teams illustrate yet another vanishing form of social capital.
  • the most fundamental form of social capital is the family, and the massive evidence of the loosening of bonds within the family (both extended and nuclear) is well known.
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  • Across the 35 countries in this survey, social trust and civic engagement are strongly correlated; the greater the density of associational membership in a society, the more trusting its citizens. Trust and engagement are two facets of the same underlying factor--social capital.[End Page 73] America still ranks relatively high by cross-national standards on both these dimensions of social capital. Even in the 1990s, after several decades' erosion, Americans are more trusting and more engaged than people in most other countries of the world. The trends of the past quarter-century, however, have apparently moved the United States significantly lower in the international rankings of social capital. The recent deterioration in American social capital has been sufficiently great that (if no other country changed its position in the meantime) another quarter-century of change at the same rate would bring the United States, roughly speaking, to the midpoint among all these countries, roughly equivalent to South Korea, Belgium, or Estonia today. Two generations' decline at the same rate would leave the United States at the level of today's Chile, Portugal, and Slovenia.
  • Other demographic transformations. A range of additional changes have transformed the American family since the 1960s--fewer marriages, more divorces, fewer children, lower real wages, and so on. Each of these changes might account for some of the slackening of civic engagement, since married, middle-class parents are generally more socially involved than other people. Moreover, the changes in scale that have swept over the American economy in these years--illustrated by the replacement of the corner grocery by the supermarket and now perhaps of the supermarket by electronic shopping at home, or the replacement of community-based enterprises by outposts of distant multinational firms--may perhaps have undermined the material and even physical basis for civic engagement.
  • The technological transformation of leisure. There is reason to believe that deep-seated technological trends are radically "privatizing" or "individualizing" our use of leisure time and thus disrupting many opportunities for social-capital formation. The most obvious and probably the most powerful instrument of this revolution is television. Time-budget studies in the 1960s showed that the growth in time spent watching television dwarfed all other changes in the way Americans passed their days and nights. Television has made our communities (or, rather, what we experience as our communities) wider and shallower. In the language of economics, electronic technology enables individual tastes to be satisfied more fully, but at the cost of the positive social externalities associated with more primitive forms of entertainment. The same logic applies to the replacement of vaudeville by the movies and now of movies by the VCR. The new "virtual reality" helmets that we will soon don to be entertained in total isolation are merely the latest extension of this trend. Is technology thus driving a wedge between our individual interests and our collective interests? It is a question that seems worth exploring more systematically.
  • who stress that closely knit social, economic, and political organizations are prone to inefficient cartelization and to what political economists term "rent seeking" and ordinary men and women call corruption.
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    An article about the loss of social capital in America
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My Adventures in Educational Technology: September 2009 - 19 views

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    THgouths ab out mobile learning and classrooms
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Main Page - Digital Native - 17 views

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    Wiki about Digital Natives produced by academics from Harvard law School and U of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Home Page of Helen Mongan-Rallis - 4 views

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    Digital natives and technology -- papers and slideshows
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Is Google Rewiring Our Brains? - 21 views

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    Brain research on Digital Natives
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MediaPost Publications Five Things You Should Know About Kids And The Internet 02/10/2009 - 16 views

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    Research summary of kids 6 - 11
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