Ch.
4 Synthesizing
Sources: Entering the Conversation |
Laura
Hillenbrand, from Seabiscuit |
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[text] http://www.usatoday.com/community/chat/2002-06-20-hillenbrand.htm |
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Transcript
of USA Today’s chat with Laura
Hillenbrand about Seabiscuit. |
Gerald
L. Early, from A Level Playing Field |
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[text] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-a-level-playing-field-by-gerald-l-early.html?pagewanted=all |
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New York Times book
review of Gerald L. Early’s A Level Playing Field. |
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[text] http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/23078.aspx |
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Washington University in St.
Louis-sponsored article about the timeliness of the publication of Early’s book. |
Stephen
Pinker, from Words Don’t Mean What They
Mean |
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[text] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview8 |
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An interview with Stephen Pinker conducted by The Guardian. |
Stephen
Pinker, from The Stuff of Thought |
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[video] http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought.html |
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In
a preview of The Stuff of Thought,
Stephen Pinker looks at language and how it acts as a mode of expression. |
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[text] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2007/10/watch_your_language.html |
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Slate article reflecting on the ideas
brought up in The Stuff of Thought. |
Stephen
Pinker, from The Evolutionary Social Psychology of
Off-Record Indirect Speech Acts |
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[text] https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10226781/lee_pinker_rationales.pdf?sequence=2 |
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Research article on rationales for indirect speech in society. |
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[text] http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker/Papers/126268/The_logic_of_indirect_speech |
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A second research article on the logic of indirect speech. |
Neil
Howe and William Strauss, from Millennials Rising |
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[text] http://chronicle.com/article/Millennials-Are-More/131175/ |
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Article addressing a far more cynical view of millennials as selfish, cynical, and miserable. |
The
Dalton School, Community Service Mission
Statement |
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[text] http://socyberty.com/philanthropy/is-it-still-volunteer-work-if-its-mandatory/ |
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Blog entry weighing the debate over whether community service
should be mandatory. The Dalton Mission Statement is briefly touched
upon. |
Detroit News, Volunteering Opens Teen’s Eyes to Nursing |
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[text] http://www.volunteermatch.org/pressroom/?id=125 |
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Article about the rewarding experiences that people of all ages
have found in volunteering. |
Dennis Chaftman, Study:
“Resume Padding” Prevalent in College-Bound Students Who Volunteer |
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[text] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/conor-grennan/why-motivation-doesnt-mat_b_1124075.html |
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Huffington Post article called “Why
Motivation Doesn’t Matter” that addresses the pointlessness of wanting
volunteerism to be based entirely on altruism. |
Arthur Stukas, Mark Snyder, and E. Gil Clary, from The Effects of “Mandatory Volunteerism” on
Intentions to Volunteer |
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[text] https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=slcestgen |
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Article addressing the impracticality of former U.S. President Bill
Clinton’s belief in mandatory volunteerism. |
Mark
Hugo Lopez, from Youth Attitudes toward
Civic Education and Community Service Requirements |
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[text] http://commons.trincoll.edu/edreform/2012/05/required-community-service-in-high-schools-and-civic-engagement/ |
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Trinity
College-sponsored article about the effect that mandatory community service requirements
have had on the perspectives of youths in the past. |
Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation |
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[text] http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-book5-2008jul05,0,6248930.story |
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Los Angeles Times article reflecting on
the ideas introduced in Bauerlein’s The Dumbest Generation. |
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[text] http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/09/27/are_we_raising_a_generation_of_nincompoops/?page=1 |
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A Boston Globe article
observing the apparent legitimacy of Bauerlein’s claims in The Dumbest Generation. |
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[audio] http://www.internetsafetyproject.org/podcasts/53-the-dumbest-generation-interview-with-mark-bauerlein |
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Podcast interview in which Dr. Charles Knutson and Mark Bauerlein discuss technology's effect on the rising
generation, for better or worse. |
Sharon
Begley, The Dumbest Generation? Don’t Be Dumb |
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[text] http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/the-dumbest-generation-does-technology-make-kids-dumb/ |
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Article
responding to the abovementioned Boston
Globe piece that questions the previous generation’s responsibility in
fostering the new generation’s alleged dumbness. |
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[text] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-huston/making-sense-of-the-dumbe_b_192948.html |
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Huffington Post article that
addresses the overall ambiguity of the question that Bauerlein attempts to answer in The Dumbest
Generation. |
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[text] http://www.teenink.com/opinion/current_events_politics/article/309870/The-Dumbest-Generation-review/ |
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A
teen book reviewer criticizes the various generalizations and fallacies that he
perceives in Bauerlein’s argument in The Dumbest Generation. |
Mizuko Ito et al., Living
and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project |
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[text] http://boingboing.net/2008/11/20/digital-youth-projec.html |
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Brief reflection on the New Media research study and its findings. |
Nicholas
Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid? |
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[video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h9uOKDiHfE |
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CBS News video reporting on recent
studies conducted at Columbia University that show the effects Internet search
engines have on human memory retention. |
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[video] http://library.fora.tv/2010/06/23/Nicholas_Carr_Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid |
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In
an interview with Google's Peter Norvig, Carr
discusses his perception that the Internet is an impediment to social progress. |
R.
Smith Simpson, Are We Getting Our Share
of the Best? |
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[text] http://baltimorechronicle.com/jul03_soapbox.html |
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Editorial article criticizing the willful ignorance of students and
the implicit flaws in the education system. |
Steven
Johnson, Your Brain on Video Games |
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[text] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4762320 |
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Johnson reads an excerpt from his book, Everything Bad is Good for You, about his childhood experience with a baseball simulation game. |
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[text] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/02/highereducation.news |
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A Guardian review of Johnson's book that takes issue with Johnson's claim that popular culture is making us more intelligent. |
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[text] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/wright.html |
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Wired article in which Will Wright
explains the ways in which video games promote imagination and creativity. |
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[video] http://www.ted.com/talks/will_wright_makes_toys_that_make_worlds.html |
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Footage
of Will Wright’s TED talk about the positive elements
of video games. |
Clive
Thompson, The New Literacy |
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[text] http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/smallbusinessmasterclass/article3385368.ece |
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Article about the rising popularity of internet blogs and the
various positive impacts that this rise has had. |
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[website] http://ssw.stanford.edu/about/about.php |
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Official website documenting the methods and results of Andrea
Lunsford’s Stanford Study of Writing which Clive Thompson references in his essay. |
Roz Chast, Shelved (cartoon) |
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[text] http://www.dailynexus.com/2011-04-07/roz-chast-yorker-cartoonist-speaks/ |
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Roz Chast speaks to a small
audience about her cartoons and artistic perspective. |