This schedule describes the summer 2019 reading plan for the Sociotechnocanonicon.
Reading group meets on https://meet.jit.si/sociotechnocanonicon every Tuesday, 11:30 - 1:00 PM Pacific time.
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
Mindstorms, Seymour Papert (The website has a link to downloadable PDF of the book as a single file.)
To try out the programming examples in the book, you can use an online version of Logo or download UCBLogo (available in Debian/Ubuntu/Arch Linux repositories). Note that the command to exit UCBLogo is bye.
- 2018-07-02 Week 1: Foreword, Introduction, Chapters 1-4 (pages vi-viii, 3-119)
- 2018-07-09 Week 2: Chapters 5-8, Epilogue (pg 120-207)
- 2018-07-16 Closing Week: Full work retrospective & follow-ups
- Computational Thinking: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
- Hackers, Computers, and Cooperation: A Critical History of Logo and Constructionist Learning
- Freire and Papert: Agency, Emancipation, and Technology (link tbd...)
- The Seeds That Seymour Sowed
