Technology and Culture:
A Nation Online
NTIA and the Economics and Statistics Administration have published A Nation Online: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use Of The Internet. This report is based on the September 2001 U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey - a survey of approximately 57,000 households and more than 137,000 individuals across the United States. As such, the data in this study are among the most broad-based and reliable datasets that have been gathered on Internet, broadband, and computer connectivity.
details A New Web Site Seeks to Increase Minority Students' Use of Federal Scholarships
In an effort to increase the number of minority students who take advantage of federally funded scholarship and job opportunities, a government agency has created a Web site consolidating information on such programs.
details Center for Children and Technology (CCT)
CCT investigates ways that technology can make a difference in children's classrooms, schools, and communities through a number of basic, applied, formative, and summative research projects. Our goal is to construct a more complete understanding of how to foster greater equity, student achievement, and teacher preparedness in our nation's schools.
details Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT)
This site develops tools to stimulate the development and study of important, technology-enabled solutions to critical problems in K-14 science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) learning. Four "theme teams" focused the efforts in areas of highest promise. CILT events, often workshops organized by theme, provided a collaborative forum in which people in the learning science community met to assess the progress of the field, define research agendas, and initiate new collaborations. CILT has also generated many resources for the learning science community, including tools, publications, and NetCourses.
details ChildrenNow.org
Children Now utilizes research and mass communications to make the well-being of children a top priority across the nation. This site provides access to related news, publications, opportunities for action, and other links of interest. A new report featured on the website explores whether primetime television accurately reflects our nation’s racial and gender diversity.
details ChildrenNOW: Protect Children's Television
The Federal Communications Commission recently initiated a proceeding to review its media ownership rules without taking into consideration the needs of children. Any changes to media ownership rules could have serious implications for the quality and quantity of children's programming. This action alert is one of several opportunities for you to voice your concerns to the FCC and your elected representatives.
details CTHEORY
CTHEORY is an international journal of theory, technology, and culture, publishing weekly articles, interviews, event-scenes and reviews of key books edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker.
details Education Reform Networks
The National Institute for Community Innovations, in collaboration with a growing number of internationally recognized expert communities in educational reform, has developed national networks of leaders skilled in assisting schools, districts, preparation programs and large-scale educational systems to plan and undertake sustained educational reform efforts with regard to several reform dimensions.
details Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC)
The goal of Engaging People In Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC) is to build human capacity by creating awareness of the opportunities afforded through cyberinfrastruture(CI) and by educating and training a diverse group of people in all stages of life from K-12 to professional practice to fully participate in the CI community as developers, users, and leaders.
details ePals.com - Classroom Exchange
ePALS Classroom Exchange® maintains the Internet's largest community of collaborative classrooms engaged in cross-cultural exchanges, project sharing and language learning. ePALS is also the leading provider of school-safe emailTM, blogs, eMentoring and web-browsing technology for the global educational market.
details Ethnics and the Internet
The definitive site for the topics on this page is Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle (VoS), Web Page for Humanities Research, particularly the Science, Technology, and Culture section. The webpage refers you to the appropriate pages on Liu's site for the sections below and provide additional pointers relevant to this class.
details Global SchoolNet Foundation
Global SchoolNet, a leader in international online education since 1984, is dedicated to partnering with schools, communities and businesses to provide collaborative learning activities that prepare students for the workforce and help them to become literate and responsible global citizens. GSN is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, member supported, education organization.
details Hand-Helded.Org
This site offers resources on using hand-held devices in education.
details iberry.com: The academic porthole
iberry.com is home to the highly-focused Higher Education Links List (HELL), providing information and resources for educators, researchers and others with an interest in Higher Education (HE).
details ibiblio
Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
details National Institute for Community Innovations
The mission of the National Institute for Community Innovations is to foster local economic and social well-being through educational innovation, especially in economically distressed communities. Our primary services support K-16 reform efforts in educational equity, education technology, K-16 partnership, and data-driven staff development and school change.
details National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the President's principal adviser on telecommunications and information policy issues, and in this role frequently works with other Executive Branch agencies to develop and present the Administration's position on these issues.
details Project MUSE - Technology and Culture
Technology and Culture is the preeminent journal for the history of technology. Drawing on scholarship in diverse disciplines, Technology and Culture publishes insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists.
details See No Evil: How Internet Filters Affect the Search for Online Health Information
The Internet filters most frequently used by schools and libraries can block pornography without significantly blocking online health information, but only if they aren't set at their most restrictive levels, reports this Kaiser Family Foundation study. When set at higher levels, filters block a substantial amount of health information with only a minimal increase in blocked pornographic content.
details TECFA - Education & Technology
TECFA is an academic unit in the field of educational technology, School of Psychology and Education, University of Geneva.
details Technology and Culture
Online resources and bibliography regarding technology and culture.
details Technology, Schools, and Decentralization of Culture
This paper seeks to develop a theoretical model of culture that can account for change in what was, and still is, considered by many social scientists to be impermeable structural boundaries. By conceptualizing technology as a symbolic tool, it is hoped that the model of culture developed in this paper can begin to explain how social relations in institutions such as schools can change in a manner that will upset existing hierarchical social relations.
details The Children's Partnership TechPolicy Bank
Policymakers and community technology advocates can learn the basics about the technology gap, get state-by-state data and read about the lack of appropriate Internet content for low-income and limited-literacy users from the TechPolicy Bank.
details The Collaboratory Project
The Collaboratory is attracting a large and diverse community that is integrating technology into teaching and learning, using technology to achieve Illinois Learning Standards and Goals, integrating technology into the school improvement process, and using technology to help close the gap between low- and high- poverty schools.
details The Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development organization based in Concord, Massachusetts. The site offers resources on interactive materials that exploit the power of information technologies.
details The Digital Divide Network
The Digital Divide Network is the Internet's largest community for educators, activists, policy makers and concerned citizens working to bridge the digital divide. At DDN, you can build your own online community, publish a blog, share documents and discussions with colleagues, and post news, events and articles. You can also find the archived discussion lists of the DIGITAL DIVIDE listserv. Membership is free and open to all, so join today!
details The Shodor Foundation
The Shodor Foundation is a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the advancement of science and math education, specifically through the use of modeling and simulation technologies. Included on this site are instructional resources and software ready to be used in the classroom.
details The Technology & Culture Forum at MIT
The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT sponsors lectures and symposia that address critical issues of our time. The programs explore the role of science and technology in promoting positive social, ecological, and economic change.
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details Understanding Prejudice
This web site is for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice. In these pages you will find more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations.
details Voice of the Shuttle
This site includes a selection of resources on science, medicine, technology, and cultural-studies/historical approaches to science designed for humanists interested in the relation between sci-tech and society. The emphasis is on materials that reflect upon, historicize, critique, collect, exhibit, or otherwise mediate (and mediatize) sci-tech rather than on scientific research per se.
details Wired News
Wired News covers the latest developments in technology, how the forces of politics and business react to those developments, and how mass culture and various subcultures respond. Information available on the website is translated daily into Korean and Japanese.
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