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community information/informatics join work umich cic/uiuc cii define a tag; find an information sharing space. share courses, sylabus, events, calendars, tags; "wise" model (?) cii: civicspace; most others on inquirylabs/inquirypage find all the schools doing it identify it as a research space not just a service space, e.g. "participatory design". connotea (nature magazine) as one example; start one way, add and add things on. a resource question for sustainability. CIC seminar, CII presentation using internationalization module as localization tool - adapt for each community (e.g. "stories" vs "lab reports" in UI) look to pragmatist and progressive education era. john dewey, jane addams (hull house). dewey: everyone knows things that no one else knows. structure is dialog, collaboration, not curriculum building and teaching. open learning - remix for community inquiry. Ann Peterson Bishop (abishop@uiuc.edu) - "community informatics, focus on youth" researchers are part of the world in which they live stanfield: typical research ignores "indigenous culture" afterschool homework help in neighborhood w/60+% hispanic students in low income neighborhood. draw from hidden assets. "pragmatic technology" - design tools to meet real needs, accomodate to users and situations. technology is the end result, not a tool to accomplish the work. Jane Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House, 1912, study of garbage collection. chapter Public Activities and Investigations. The Spirit of Youth in City Streets. John Dewey: The School and Society / The Child and the Curriculum. "Democracy is conversation" Prairienet, East St. Louis Prairienet started as ISP (50%), online respository of information - host web sites, listservs. 40k on listserv, 500 local organizations. |
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