The following is a post I just made to our project page for a project I am leading called “Digital Literacy for ALL Learners, funded by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity through their Eliminate the Digital Divide program. We are working at five public computing centers to teach basic computer and digital literacy skills… Continue reading Labor Day and Digital Literacy for ALL Learners
We have reached a crisis point regarding the children who are coming, often unaccompanied, to the U.S. from Central America. Vox has done a helpful two minute summary on the issue. We recently watched The Stranger, a short film about the broken U.S. immigration system and another good source to consider alternative perspectives. On the… Continue reading Child immigrant crisis
The raw materials are slowly extracted from the ground – silicon, copper, gold, palladium, platinum, yttrium, scandium, the lanthanides, alumina, borax, feldspar, nepheline syenite, magnesite, silica sand, limestone, soda ash, kaolin clay. Some workers run heavy equipment to strip the resources from the top of the earth, while other workers descend deep into the earth to extract… Continue reading The Making of a Savior
Do a search on the term Internet, and you find a wealth of business ads and news stories. Do a search on the term capitalism and you find a wealth of books and news articles. Do a search on the term social entrepreneurship and you find articles, grants, and jobs. Do a search on sociotechnical… Continue reading Changing the Unhealthy Way We Look at Technology
As we prepare for our first backyard chickens and experience our first winter with backyard meat rabbits, I’ve been reflecting a lot on what it means to ease into urban farming. There is the personal gains of having close at hand quality nutritious food and coming to see the interconnectedness of life more closely than… Continue reading Urban farming as civic duty
