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Brian C. Smith

Making (in) History: Learning by Reinvention | Edutopia - 1 views

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  • Brian C. Smith on 14 Nov 15
     
    An excellent article about making in history class from Castilleja.
Martin Leicht

Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • They aren’t going to become programmers, but they realize these are skills that will make them better lawyers
  • for example, learn to write short, tailored programs that can identify clusters of words and concepts in Supreme Court rulings more accurately than a Google search
  • Code, it seems, is the lingua franca of the modern economy.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 05 Apr 17
       
      BIg data, by using code you fine tune your search and pull in the data/information you need.
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  • One recent institutional adaptation is the creation of so-called CS+X initiatives at schools like Stanford, Northwestern and the University of Illinois. These programs are hybrid majors that combine computing with other disciplines, including anthropology, comparative literature and history — a nod to the reality that software skills can advance research in nearly every field.
  • Today, at many universities, at least half of the student population takes the intro courses.
  • coding as a window to “computational thinking,” which involves abstract reasoning, modeling and breaking down problems into the recipelike steps of an algorithm
Martin Leicht

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • She told me she’d spent most of the summer hanging out alone in her room with her phone.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 16 Aug 17
       
      A challenge for certain, to parents, teens/students, and the community on the whole.
  • Today’s teens are also less likely to date.
  • Even driving, a symbol of adolescent freedom inscribed in American popular culture,
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  • Independence isn’t free—you need some money in your pocket to pay for gas, or for that bottle of schnapps.
  • But iGen teens aren’t working (or managing their own money) as much.
  • Across a range of behaviors—drinking, dating, spending time unsupervised— 18-year-olds now act more like 15-year-olds used to, and 15-year-olds more like 13-year-olds. Childhood now stretches well into high school.
  • n an information economy that rewards higher education more than early work history, parents may be inclined to encourage their kids to stay home and study rather than to get a part-time job. Teens, in turn, seem to be content with this homebody arrangement—not because they’re so studious, but because their social life is lived on their phone. They don’t need to leave home to spend time with their friends.
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 17 Aug 17
       
      "may be inclined" - the author puts a lot on this statement as a possible source for this challenge we face. Parents rely no data trends get get their kids to stay home and study. I am sorry, the point may be true, yet I find it questionable parenting.
  • this means iGen teens have more leisure time than Gen X teens did, not less.
  • It’s not only a matter of fewer kids partying; fewer kids are spending time simply hanging out.
  • Teens who spend more time than average on screen activities are more likely to be unhappy, and those who spend more time than average on nonscreen activities are more likely to be happy.
  • Of course, these analyses don’t unequivocally prove that screen time causes unhappiness; it’s possible that unhappy teens spend more time online. But recent research suggests that screen time, in particular social-media use, does indeed cause unhappiness.
  • This doesn’t always mean that, on an individual level, kids who spend more time online are lonelier than kids who spend less time online
  • The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.
  • One piece of data that indirectly but stunningly captures kids’ growing isolation, for good and for bad: Since 2007, the homicide rate among teens has declined, but the suicide rate has increased. As teens have started spending less time together, they have become less likely to kill one another, and more likely to kill themselves.
  • This trend has been especially steep among girls. Forty-eight percent more girls said they often felt left out in 2015 than in 2010, compared with 27 percent more boys
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