| Ch. 4 Synthesizing Sources: Entering the Conversation | ||
| Laura Hillenbrand, from Seabiscuit | ||
| • | [text] http://www.usatoday.com/community/chat/2002-06-20-hillenbrand.htm | |
| Transcript of USA Today’s chat with Laura Hillenbrand about Seabiscuit. | ||
| Gerald L. Early, from A Level Playing Field | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-a-level-playing-field-by-gerald-l-early.html?pagewanted=all | |
| New York Times book review of Gerald L. Early’s A Level Playing Field. | ||
| • | [text] http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/23078.aspx | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview8 | |
| An interview with Stephen Pinker conducted by The Guardian. | ||
| Stephen Pinker, from The Stuff of Thought | ||
| • | [video] http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_language_and_thought.html | |
| In a preview of The Stuff of Thought, Stephen Pinker looks at language and how it acts as a mode of expression. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2007/10/watch_your_language.html | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/10226781/lee_pinker_rationales.pdf?sequence=2 | |
| Research article on rationales for indirect speech in society. | ||
| • | [text] http://harvard.academia.edu/StevenPinker/Papers/126268/The_logic_of_indirect_speech | |
| A second research article on the logic of indirect speech. | ||
| Neil Howe and William Strauss, from Millennials Rising | ||
| • | [text] http://chronicle.com/article/Millennials-Are-More/131175/ | |
| Article addressing a far more cynical view of millennials as selfish, cynical, and miserable. | ||
| The Dalton School, Community Service Mission Statement | ||
| • | [text] http://socyberty.com/philanthropy/is-it-still-volunteer-work-if-its-mandatory/ | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://www.volunteermatch.org/pressroom/?id=125 | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/conor-grennan/why-motivation-doesnt-mat_b_1124075.html | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=slcestgen | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://commons.trincoll.edu/edreform/2012/05/required-community-service-in-high-schools-and-civic-engagement/ | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-book5-2008jul05,0,6248930.story | |
| Los Angeles Times article reflecting on the ideas introduced in Bauerlein’s The Dumbest Generation. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/09/27/are_we_raising_a_generation_of_nincompoops/?page=1 | |
| A Boston Globe article observing the apparent legitimacy of Bauerlein’s claims in The Dumbest Generation. | ||
| • | [audio] http://www.internetsafetyproject.org/podcasts/53-the-dumbest-generation-interview-with-mark-bauerlein | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/the-dumbest-generation-does-technology-make-kids-dumb/ | |
| Article responding to the abovementioned Boston Globe piece that questions the previous generation’s responsibility in fostering the new generation’s alleged dumbness. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-huston/making-sense-of-the-dumbe_b_192948.html | |
| Huffington Post article that addresses the overall ambiguity of the question that Bauerlein attempts to answer in The Dumbest Generation. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.teenink.com/opinion/current_events_politics/article/309870/The-Dumbest-Generation-review/ | |
| 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 | ||
| • | [text] http://boingboing.net/2008/11/20/digital-youth-projec.html | |
| Brief reflection on the New Media research study and its findings. | ||
| Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid? | ||
| • | [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h9uOKDiHfE | |
| CBS News video reporting on recent studies conducted at Columbia University that show the effects Internet search engines have on human memory retention. | ||
| • | [video] http://library.fora.tv/2010/06/23/Nicholas_Carr_Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid | |
| 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? | ||
| • | [text] http://baltimorechronicle.com/jul03_soapbox.html | |
| Editorial article criticizing the willful ignorance of students and the implicit flaws in the education system. | ||
| Steven Johnson, Your Brain on Video Games | ||
| • | [text] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4762320 | |
| Johnson reads an excerpt from his book, Everything Bad is Good for You, about his childhood experience with a baseball simulation game. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/02/highereducation.news | |
| A Guardian review of Johnson's book that takes issue with Johnson's claim that popular culture is making us more intelligent. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/wright.html | |
| Wired article in which Will Wright explains the ways in which video games promote imagination and creativity. | ||
| • | [video] http://www.ted.com/talks/will_wright_makes_toys_that_make_worlds.html | |
| Footage of Will Wright’s TED talk about the positive elements of video games. | ||
| Clive Thompson, The New Literacy | ||
| • | [text] http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/smallbusinessmasterclass/article3385368.ece | |
| Article about the rising popularity of internet blogs and the various positive impacts that this rise has had. | ||
| • | [website] http://ssw.stanford.edu/about/about.php | |
| 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) | ||
| • | [text] http://www.dailynexus.com/2011-04-07/roz-chast-yorker-cartoonist-speaks/ | |
| Roz Chast speaks to a small audience about her cartoons and artistic perspective. | ||