Sober Words From the New York Times
On the scourge of “socialist” and “internationalist” teachers, Nov. 18, 1917. The educators in question, at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, resisted directing their students to buy Liberty Bonds, which the federal government used to support the war effort.
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I can’t help but think that we’re paying the costs of the public-ness that we’ve helped create. We’ve made geek culture something to watch, an economic engine, a dependency. And in doing so, we haven’t enabled safe spaces to grow. We’ve created communities connected around ideas and actions, relishing individualistic productivity for collective good. But we haven’t created openings for people to be weak and voice their struggles and demons. In short, we don’t know how to support vulnerabilities and rather than debugging the problem, we just hope that if we don’t pay too much attention to them, they’ll go away.
But the pressures of public-ness are forcing us to pay an ugly price.
"— morning and public-ness by danah boyd
"In my experience, the fact that I ask myself to ‘think like a computer’ does not close off other epistemologies. It simply opens new ways for approaching thinking. The cultural assimilation of the computer presence will give rise to a computer literacy. This phrase is often taken as meaning knowing how to program, or knowing about the varied uses made of computers. But true computer literacy is not just knowing how to make use of computers and computational ideas. It is knowing when it is appropriate to do so."
— via Seymour Papert, Mindstorms
"…The idea of the computer as an instrument for drill and practice that appeals to teachers because it resembles traditional teaching methods also appeals to the engineers who design computer systems: Drill and practice applications are predictable, simple to describe, efficient in use of the machine’s resources. So the best engineering talent goes into the development of computer systems that are biased to favor this kind of application."
— via Seymour Papert, Mindstorms
