technology

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• 3/22/2020
  

  As We Zoom into Online Learning….

  by Norman J.W. Goda

  To learn effectively, we all need to be, once again, in the same room. Let’s hope it is soon.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  3/18/2020
  

  This Isn’t Just an Experiment in Education. It’s a Test of Our Democracy, Too.

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  The new machines weren’t created for elites, who would always have access to the best kinds of education that America could offer. Technology was for everyone else.

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• SOURCE: UC Santa Cruz
  3/4/2020
  

  Elaine Sullivan Uses 3D Technologies to Peel way the Layers of History

  Professor Elaine Sullivan's publication is among the first to include interactive 3D models that can be navigated both spatially and temporally. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  1/30/20
  

  The Three Civil Rights–Era Leaders Who Warned of Computers and Racism

  by Charlton McIlwain

  More than 50 years later, will the U.S.—and Silicon Valley—hear their message?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/21/20
  

  The Way We Write History Has Changed

  by Alexis C. Madrigal

  A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/9/19
  

  Internet Historians Mourn Loss Of Cultural Record As Yahoo Prepares To Delete Groups

  At one time, there were 10 million Yahoo Groups with more than 100 million users - from neighborhood organizations to amateur astronomers. On Saturday, the archives disappeared.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  11/14/19
  

  Using Digital History in the Classroom

  New to digital history? These three steps may help you incorporate #DigHist into your classroom.

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• SOURCE: Vice
  October 22, 2019
  

  DeepMind AI Beats Human Historians at Deciphering Ancient Texts

  by Edward Ongweso Jr

  University of Oxford researchers are using machine learning to help make ancient text restoration less tedious.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/12/19
  

  History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future

  Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to a better understanding of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?

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• 11/5/19
  

  The Internet at 50: The future and “dissolving containers”

  by Harlan Lebo

  The internet has long been on a path of constant reinvention, with flux being the sole constant. The biggest question of all is: where will digital technology go next? 

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• 10/29/19
  

  The Internet at 50: The Night the Internet Was Born

  by Harlan Lebo

  If there was a single moment that would define the start of the technology that would become the internet – this was it: the future was born. 

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• SOURCE: Wired
  10/18/19
  

  Zuckerberg’s Warped History Lesson and the Age of Incoherence

  by Naom Cohen

  The Facebook CEO invoked the civil-rights era to justify kowtowing to money and power. It doesn’t wash.

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• 10/22/19
  

  The Internet At 50: How the Dot-Com Bubble Burst

  by Harlan Lebo

  As a cautionary tale and a business school lesson about irrational investor expectations, no modern example proved better than the dot-com bubble.

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• 10/20/19
  

  To Stop The Rise of Nationalism, We Must Remember High-Tech’s Role in Supporting Past and Present Nationalistic Agendas

  by Clyde W. Ford

  Since the dawn of the digital age, nationalism has relied on digital technology.

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• 10/15/19
  

  The Internet at 50: Four Steps in Transforming the Digital World

  by Harlan Lebo

  The internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex, near-impenetrable masses of data stored in computers around the world. Online technology would evolve for more than two decades before it would become practical for everyone to use. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  10/3/19
  

  Will Technology Change How We Understand Interpersonal Violence? Maybe. Probably Not.

  by Sarah Horowitz

  It’s more accurate to say that technology can help us find the evidence that we are culturally primed to look for.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  How the Long History of Human Violence Explains Why the Internet Causes So Much Chaos

  by Mike Martin

  Why is there so much chaos? The history of violence offers one possible answer.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/19/19
  

  Historians' archival research looks quite different in the digital age

  by Ian Milligan

  Our society’s historical record is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Think of all the information that you create today that will be part of the record for tomorrow. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/30/19
  

  The Atlantic Publishes Article Encouraging "New Science of Progress"

  Many historians insisted this field already exists: it's history. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/15/19
  

  ‘The Code’ Review: How Green Was the Valley

  by Randall Stross

  As late as the early 1970s, Northern California seemed a long-shot candidate for the center of the computerized universe. A review of Margaret O’Mara's The Code.