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Section 12

Students will work in teams of two or three. Each team is responsible for reading one of the following and reporting on it to the class. Each team will prepare a 500-word summary of the article or chapter read and send it to all members of the class and the instructor by E-mail. Each team will be assigned a class meeting during which they will present a 5-minute oral report and lead a 5-minute class discussion of the reading.

  1. Rimm 1995

  2. http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/cyberporn.debate.cgi.

    Read the overview at this site. Also read the following articles to this overview.

       
    Team 2 - Tuesday, October 7
  3. Roszak 1994, I

  4. Theodore Roszak, "The Computer and the Counterculture," Chapter 7 of The Cult of Information, pp. 135 - 155 (on reserve in the ERC).
       
    Team 3 - Tuesday, October 14
  5. Roszak 1994, II

  6. Theodore Roszak, "Ben Franklin's Information Service," Chapter 9 of The Cult of Information, pp. 173 - 201 (on reserve in the ERC).
       

    Team 4 - Tuesday, October 28

  7. Roszak 1994, III

  8. Theodore Roszak, "In the Wrong Hands," Chapter 10 of The Cult of Information, pp. 202 - 233 (on reserve in the ERC).
       
    Team 5 - Tuesday, November 4
  9. Sivin and Bialo 1992

  10. Jay P. Sivin and Ellen R. Bialo, Ethical Use of Information Technologies in Education: Important Issues for America's Schools, National Institute of Justice, pp. 1 - 25 (on reserve in the ERC).
       
     
    Team 6 - Tuesday, November 11
  11. Stoll 1995

  12. Clifford Stoll, "On Classrooms, With and Without Computers," Chapter 9 of Silicon Snake Oil, Doubleday, pp. 116 - 153 (on reserve in the ERC).
       

    Team 7 - Tuesday November 18

  13. Tapscott 1996

  14. Don Tapscott, "Learning in the Digital Economy," in The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Internetworked Intelligence, McGraw Hill, Chapter 8, pp. 197 - 216 (On reserve in the ERC).
       
     
    Team 8 - Tuesday, November 25
  15. Turkle 1984

  16. Sherry Turkle, "Child Philosophers: Are Smart Machines Alive?" in The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, Simon and Schuster, Chapter 1, pp. 29 - 63. (On reserve in the ERC).
       

    Team 9- Tuesday, December 2

  1. Anderson et al. 1994

  2. Ronald E. Anderson, Vicki Lundmark, Linda Harris, and Shon Magnan, "Equity in Computing," in Huff and Finholt, Social Issues in Computing: Putting Computing in Its Place, McGraw-Hill, 1994, pp. 352 - 385 (on reserve in the ERC).
       

    Team 10 - Tuesday, December 9

  3. Attewell 1987 and Grant et al. 1988

  4. Paul Attewell, "Big Brother and the Sweatshop: Computer Surveillance in the Automated Office," in Dunlop and Kling, Computerization and Controversy, Academic Press, 1991, pp. 236 - 256 3. ________________________________________________________________________