{"id":4857,"date":"2010-07-17T07:32:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T07:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/17\/links-for-2010-07-17\/"},"modified":"2010-07-17T07:32:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T07:32:07","slug":"links-for-2010-07-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/17\/links-for-2010-07-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-07-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2010\/07\/16\/techliteracy\">News: Technologically Illiterate Students &#8211; Inside Higher Ed<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The assumption that today&#8217;s student are computer-literate because they are &#8220;digital natives&#8221; is a pernicious one, Zvacek said. &#8220;Our students are task-specific tech savvy: they know how to do many things,&#8221; she said. &#8220;What we need is for them to be tech-skeptical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zvacek was careful to make clear that by tech-skeptical, she did not mean tech-negative. The skepticism she advocates is not a knee-jerk aversion to new technology tools, but rather the critical capacity to glean the implications, and limitations, of technologies as they emerge and become woven into the students&#8217; lives. In a campus environment, that means knowing why not to trust Google to turn up the best sources for a research paper in its top returns, or appreciating the implications of surrendering personal data &#8212; including the propensities of one&#8217;s bladder &#8212; to third parties on the Web. &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/inside-higher-ed\">inside-higher-ed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msichicago.org\/matm\">Museum of Science and Industry | Month at the Museum<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;We&#8217;re looking for someone to take on a once-in-a-lifetime assignment: spend a Month at the Museum, to live and breathe science 24\/7 for 30 days. From October 20 to November 18, 2010, this person&#8217;s mission will be to experience all the fun and education that fits in this historic 14-acre building, living here full-time and reporting your findings to the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s a commitment. But if you are chosen and can successfully complete the Month at the Museum, you&#8217;ll walk away with a prize of $10,000, a package of tech gadgets, an honorary lifetime membership to MSI, and new knowledge and experiences that may just transform you.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/museums\">museums<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/outreach\">outreach<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/contests\">contests<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suburbdad.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/what-runs-through-my-mind-during.html\">Confessions of a Community College Dean: What Runs Through My Mind During a Software Demo<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;- Look at all of us in here. I wonder what the hourly wage of everyone in this room adds up to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Your tax dollars at work. Look, you can refresh the page!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; He&#8217;s looking at me again! Look like you care, look like you care&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I wonder if the tech guys think we&#8217;re losers, running the demo on an xp machine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Yes, I know how to type in a box. You can stop demonstrating now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Anyone who misbehaves spends the night in the box.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Whatever happened to Broderick Crawford, anyway?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/computing\">computing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/dean-dad\">dean-dad<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Technologically Illiterate Students &#8211; Inside Higher Ed &#8220;The assumption that today&#8217;s student are computer-literate because they are &#8220;digital natives&#8221; is a pernicious one, Zvacek said. &#8220;Our students are task-specific tech savvy: they know how to do many things,&#8221; she said. &#8220;What we need is for them to be tech-skeptical.&#8221; Zvacek was careful to make&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/07\/17\/links-for-2010-07-17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-07-17<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}