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Section 13

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. Stoll 1995

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

    Team 2 - Tuesday, October 7

  2. Tapscott 1996

    3. 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).
      3. ________________________________________________________________________
     

    Team 3 - Tuesday, October 14

  3. Turkle 1984

    4. 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 4 - Tuesday, October 28
  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 5 - Tuesday, November 4
  2. Attewell 1987 and Grant et al. 1988

    3. 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
      Team 6 - Tuesday, November 11
  3. Oppenheimer, Todd, "The Computer Delusion," Atlantic Monthly, July, 1997,  pp. 45 - 62.

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    Team 7 - Tuesday, November 18
  4. Borning 1987

    5. Alan Borning, "Computer System Reliability and Nuclear War," Communications of the ACM 30:2, 112-131, reprinted in Dunlop and Kling, 560-592; also reprinted in Computers in Battle, Will They Work?, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987, pp. 101 - 147. On reserve in the ERC.
       

    Team 8 - Tuesday, November 25

  5. Burnham 1983 and Rule et al. 1983

    6. David Burnham, "Data Protection," Chapter 3 of The Rise of the Computer State, reprinted in Ermann, Williams and Gutierrez, Computers, Ethics, and Society, Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 94 - 106.

    James B. Rule, Douglas McAdam, Linda Stearns, and David Uglow, "Documentary Identification and Mass Surveillance in the United States," in Huff and Finholt, pp. 445 - 461 (both in one packet on reserve in the ERC).
     

    Team 9 - Tuesday, December 2
  6. Bush 1945 and Greenberger 1964

    7. http://www2.theAtlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/flashbks/computer/tech.htm.

    Read the overview, "The Technological Revolution", and the linked articles, "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush and "The Computers of Tomorrow" by Martin Greenberger.
     

    2. ________________________________________________________________________

    3. ________________________________________________________________________
     

    Team 10 - Tuesday, December 9

  7. Carvin 1996

    8. http://k12.cnidr.org:90/edref.html.

    "Trends in Education Reform," Andy Carvin.

    Be careful to follow all of the links. This is a true hyperbook, so you need to also be aware of the paths you are following. DO NOT TRY TO PRINT THIS AND READ IT OFF LINE!