Digital technologies old and new are not objects that can be packed inside a box. They are a seamless, indivisible combination of people, organizations, policies, economies, histories, cultures, knowledge, and material things that are continuously shaped and reshaped. In support of this shift, each session of the book begins first with a social chapter with background knowledge probe, conceptual introductions, and a lesson plan for the session.

Title

• A Person-Centered Guide to Demystifying Technology: Working together to observe, question, design, prototype, and implement/reject technology in support of people's valued beings and doings

Creator

• Martin Wolske

Learning resource type

• Textbook

Education level

• Community college / Lower division

Audience

• Student

Table of contents

• Orange Unit: A Person-Centered Launch
  1A: Information Systems
  1B: Introduction to Electronic Circuits
  2A: Critical Social + Technical Perspective
  2B: Electronic Components in Series
  3A: The Unknown Tech Innovators
  3A: Computer Building Blocks
  4A: Launching Our Counterstories
  4B: Meet the Microcomputer
  4C: Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi
  4D: Coding Electronics
  Orange Unit Review

  Blue Unit: Computational Tinkering
  1A: The Logic of Hardware and Programming
  1B: Essential Coding Concepts
  2A: The Methodological Landscape
  2B: Make Music with Code
  3A: Valued, Inclusive Information and Computing Technology Experiences
  3B: Build Functions for Remixable Code
  4A: Sharing Our Counterstories
  4B: Raspberry Pi Counterstory Little Free Library
  Blue Unit Review
  REMIX: Ideating and Iterating Code: Scratch Example
  Rainbow Unit: Networks Big and Small
  1A: Programmable Electronics, Smart Technology, and the Internet of Things
  1B: Connecting Our Electronic 'Thing' to a Wider World
  2A: Digital Internets, Past and Present
  2B: The Infrastructure of the Internet
  3A: The Digitization of Divides
  3B: A Person-Centered Network Information System Adventure
  4A: Recovering Community: Designing for Social Justice
  4B: Community-Centered Design
  Rainbow Unit Review

Subject

• software

• social justice

• digital equity

• design justice

• social shaping of technology

• computer informatics

• hardware

• computer networks

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

License

• Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

Language

• English

Publisher

• Windsor & Downs Press

Type

• Text