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Modern America: A Culture and Its Computers

Modern America: A Culture and Its Computers. The ways in which individuals have come to view computers and the differences within these views are related to the individuals’ generation and will be examined as related to the fostering of a generation gap. Relating Computers to American Values.

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Modern America: A Culture and Its Computers

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  1. Modern America: A Culture and Its Computers The ways in which individuals have come to view computers and the differences within these views are related to the individuals’ generation and will be examined as related to the fostering of a generation gap.

  2. Relating Computers to American Values

  3. American Values Understood:What Bethel Thought • Time is money, money is everything • Image- public- beauty, self • Power • Success- defined by money, power, and social status symbols like these • Materialism (the here and now or personal property--??) • Education- because it is the tool to the rest.

  4. Individualism and Privacy Equality Future, Change, and Progress Goodness of Humanity Time Achievement, Action, Work, Materialism Directness and Assertiveness Rational, Empirical, Epistemological Ways to Knowledge (Huie and UMSL website) American Values From the Experts

  5. The American Adoption of Technology • Computers fit and cooperate with American values. • One does not fuel the other- they coincide- example of progress • *Point of interest* Invasion of the English Language: Terms for computer related products and most modern technologies. Why?

  6. Interpreting the data Story of the 87 year old mom who “mastered” her system of email. The Children’s Library story from NPR. Hyperlink to NPR story The end of the story quote… But why should we stop questioning? What implications can be drawn? The Generation Gap:The Data

  7. Grandma, Mom, and I • Poll results • Implications for education • Implications for the workplace

  8. Media… ummm… Support • What American value(s) do you find depicted in these advertisements? • Be specific- Cite people- who is represented, how they are portrayed Cite technologies- what is being advertised? Why is it given merit? Cite word choice- why is a certain thing being said? • Hyperlinks to advertisements: Tech 1, tech 2, tech 3

  9. The Synthesis: Additional Issues Brought to the Surface: • Relationships (cyber society, face-to-face) • Laws- Government?? Or computer anarchy in the name of communication? • Education- School districts and $; competition for supplies; how, when and where to integrate tech. in the classroom • Workforce- based off education- • Questions: Is there equal opportunity when it comes to computer skills? Should local communities pitch in to balance the odds?

  10. So What Do We Do with the Value of Freedom? • EQUALITY- The levels and the conflict

  11. Bibliography: • Personal interviews and surveys given to both “generations”: two models- verbal interview and written anonymous survey • Journals: • Abbot, Judy A and Faris, Sandra E. Integrating Technology into Preservice Literacy Instruction: A survey of Elementary Education Students’ Attitudes toward Computers. Journal of Research on Computing in Education. Nov 2000 v33:2. p 149. • Pool, Dawn M.Student Participation in a Discussion-Oriented Online Course: A Case Study.Journal of Research on Computing in Education Nov 2000. v33:2. p162 • Robbins, Nancy. Technology Subcultures and Indicators Associated with High Technology Performance in Schools. Journal of Research on ComputinginEducation. Nov 2000. v33 :2 p111 • Periodicals: • PC World. September 2002. 20:9. • I will use selections from this magazine to point out different cultural values that are represented in the advertising. This magazine is an extreme example of the influence and importance put on the developing technologies- how it has fit in and infiltrated our daily lives and views. This has gone on to propagate the generation gap—even an education gap for those that are informed and those who are not. How these factors determines how we live will be integrated into the presentation. • Books: • --cultural values in America: • Bennett, William H. The Devaluing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children. Touchtone. New York, New York. 1992. • Jones, Steven G. Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety. 1997. Cromwell Press Ltd. Towbridge, Great Britain. • Edt. Harrison, Lawrence E. and Huntington, Samuel P. Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress. Basic Books. New York, New York. 2000. • McElroy, John Harmon. American Beliefs. Ivan R D. Chicago, Il. 1999. • Websites: • See information on SIGCAS and CAS • “Key American Values” found at http://www.umsl.edu/~intelstu/Student_Handbook/Appendices/Key_American_Values/key_american_values.html • Huie, Jorge Green. American Values. Mesquite Review. April/May 2002.http://www.mesquitereview.com/mr28-5.html

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