The story of a pioneering microcomputer: its beginnings as part of a national Computer Literary Project, its innovative hardware, and its creative uses.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."Andrea diSessa's career as a scholar, technologist, and teacher has been driven by one important question: can education -- in particular, science education -- be transformed by the computer so that children can learn more, learn more easily at an earlier age, and learn with pleasure and commitment? This book is diSessa's informed and passionate affirmative answer to that ques…
"Challenges the 'Code for All' movement with a framework for critical computational literacy that integrates computer science with journalism, data, art, civic imagination, and social action"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A guide to computational thinking education, with a focus on artificial intelligence literacy and the integration of computing and physical objects. Computing has become an essential part of today's primary and secondary school curricula. In recent years, K–12 computer education has shifted from computer science itself to the broader perspective of computational thinking (CT), which is les…
The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of "literacy," drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analo…
"Pahl and Rowsell combines newer orientations in literacy studies - co-production, new materialism, post-humanism, digital and maker epistemologies - to describe a living, enacted model of literacy"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A new framework for critical data studies, aligned with media and digital literacies, that situates data literacy in broader debates on citizen agency and the democratic public sphere"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Essays that look at the challenges and risks in designing algorithms and platforms for children, with an emphasis on innovative designs and solutions for algorithmic justice, learning, and equity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news. What is fake news Is it an item on Breitbart, an article in The Onion , an outright falsehood disseminated via Russian bot, or a catchphrase used by a politician to discredit a story he doesn't like This book examines the real fake news: the constant flow of purposefully crafted, sensational, e…