🧐 How can computing help us, for example, to study people's opinions on controversial heritage?
In the next workshop of the #REWIND project you will learn about the IAT /ML methodology, which allows discourses to be analysed by combining ontological, argumentative and agency analysis.
rn I'm doing a lot of research on early internet fandom for my bachelor thesis and since I was born after the turn of the millennium it's making me wonder how it must have been to be a fan on the internet when Usenet and ICQ/IRC/AIM and GeoCities were still a thing. It really feels like having some kind of lost nostalgia, I've only lived to see early facebook, msn and flipnote as my early internet interactions.
If you were a fan on the internet in the late 90's / early 00's, or know someone that was, please hit me up!! I'd love to have a chat about it!!
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If you have kids in US public #schools or know anything about US public #school#curriculum, please tell me what kids up to 8th or 9th grade learn about Henry Ford or Charles Lindbergh. #socialStudies#history
#AlbertaEducation is currently in the process of working with education partners & #Jewish organizations to explore how to develop the new social studies curriculum.
For a moment, I feared that the movie #superman, Red Son, was a propaganda vehicle for Russian ideals about democracy. It was worse: it's a vehicle for American propaganda about Russian propaganda. Project, project, project. You guys get lost in projecting your own worries on one-another. Don't you guys, like, talk? #dccomics#socialstudies#history
I recently switched careers from #law to #teaching. I have a #JD and used it in various capacities including as a corporate lawyer and a public #LawLibrarian. Much of my work with the public in a #LawLibrary convinced me to become a #SocialStudies#teacher, since so many issues could have been avoided with basic understanding of government and some analysis skills. I have thoughts on the #TeacherShortage and why people are fleeing the teaching profession: