Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Schedule

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 (pages 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
  • Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete
  • The Seeds That Seymour Sowed

The Logic of Collective Action

Olson, M. (1965). The logic of collective action: Public goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

There is a soft copy in the shared Zotero or you can ask in IRC to get access.

• 2018-07-25: Read the entire book. Nate is facilitating. Chapters 1 and 2 are super classic and the reason the book is cited as much as it is. I expect that much of our discussion will focus on the first part of the book, but feel free to bring up the other parts as well.