Gary Stager
Digital Democracy – High-tech Activities and Policies Essential for Modern Citizenship
Title: Digital Democracy – High-tech Activities and
Policies Essential for Modern Citizenship
Presenter: Gary Stager Ph.D.
This session explores high-tech activities designed to inspire student political participation at a variety of grade levels. The Internet has changed politics and what it means to be a modern citizen. In an age when candidates host online discussions, political organization depends on meetup.com and elections are won or lost on YouTube, it is vital that students master the tools and media techniques of their age, including: data analysis, simulation building, polling and propaganda creation.
In addition to mastery of the tools and techniques essential for civic participation, this session will explore the network and democratic policies required if students are to develop as productive citizens.
The computer, Internet and constructivist software will be used to address:
* The mathematics of polling
* Making sense of data
* Effective communication
* Propaganda creation
* Online community building
* Civic participation
Podcast
nyscate07h08
Presenter: Gary Stager Ph.D.
This session explores high-tech activities designed to inspire student political participation at a variety of grade levels. The Internet has changed politics and what it means to be a modern citizen. In an age when candidates host online discussions, political organization depends on meetup.com and elections are won or lost on YouTube, it is vital that students master the tools and media techniques of their age, including: data analysis, simulation building, polling and propaganda creation.
In addition to mastery of the tools and techniques essential for civic participation, this session will explore the network and democratic policies required if students are to develop as productive citizens.
The computer, Internet and constructivist software will be used to address:
* The mathematics of polling
* Making sense of data
* Effective communication
* Propaganda creation
* Online community building
* Civic participation
Podcast
nyscate07h08
Ten Things to Do With a Laptop - Learning and Powerful Ideas
Title: Ten Things to Do with a Laptop - Learning and
Powerful Ideas
Presenter: Gary Stager Ph.D.
Description: A paper entitled, “Twenty Things to Do with a Computer,” was published in 1971 by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. Few of today’s schools, with or without laptops, satisfy the goals of that thirty-five year-old document. This session invokes the challenging vision of the earlier document, updates it and presents ideas for using laptops in ways that offer unprecedented learning adventures across K-12 and various subject areas. A broader vision of using computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self-expression is equally appropriate for educators with one or one hundred computers in their classroom.
Podcast
nyscate07a01
Presenter: Gary Stager Ph.D.
Description: A paper entitled, “Twenty Things to Do with a Computer,” was published in 1971 by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon. Few of today’s schools, with or without laptops, satisfy the goals of that thirty-five year-old document. This session invokes the challenging vision of the earlier document, updates it and presents ideas for using laptops in ways that offer unprecedented learning adventures across K-12 and various subject areas. A broader vision of using computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self-expression is equally appropriate for educators with one or one hundred computers in their classroom.
Podcast
nyscate07a01
