Technology

Counseling Girls to Bridge the Technology Gap (60 min.)
LC212.82 .C68 2001
Summary: Exams girls educational experiences in science and practical strategies to ensure gender fair counseling and assisting girls and young women in making good academic and career choices.

Crossing the Divide (57 min.)
LC1037.5 .C76 2000
Summary: Looks at the skills and education needed for tomorrow’s workforce to prosper in the marketplace of the future. Profiles schools that stress the value of critical thinking and teamwork as the building blocks of success. Discusses issues such as the school-to-work movement and universal Internet access.

Facing our Science Fiction Future (19 min.)
QA76.9.C66F33
Summary: Arthur C. Clarke discusses the impact of computer technology on the workplace, introduces the subject of artifical intelligence, and speculates on the evolution of man and intelligence.

Fair Play (57 min.)
LC213.2.F35 2000
Summary: Exposes counterproductive classroom behaviors and presents measures being taken to correct the misperception that computing is a males-only domain. Professionals in education scrutinize issues including equal computer access in the classroom, attitude barriers both in class and out, and efforts to develop software and Web sites that enfranchise female users rather than reinformce gender stereotypes. Originally broadcast in 1999 as a segment of the television program Digital Divide: Teachers, Technology, and the Classroom.

For Man Must Work, or, The End of Work (52 min.)
HD6331 .F65 2000
Summary: Discusses how in the global economy, human resources are being replaced by technology, ending the mass labor force era and moving toward creating an elite corps of workers in the knowledge sector. Visits people with deteriorating living and working conditions in the United States, Canada, France, and Mexico.

Geraldo Off-line (24 min.)
JZ1318 .L54 2000 v.2
Summary: Part 2 of a series on how the globalized world economy affects ordinary people. Geraldo da Sousa worked his way out of a shanty-town in Brazil into a job in a Ford car factory. Then he was told he no longer had a job because of the financial meltdown in faraway South East Asia. Was that just an excuse or the harsh reality of the new globalized economy? In this film, with the help of investigative journalist Jon Alpert, Geraldo sets out to find the truth.

Geraldo’s Brazil (27 min.)
JZ1318 .L5413 2005 v.11
Summary: This film revisits Geraldo Da Souza, a worker at Ford in Sao Paolo, Brazil. In 1999, he was among 2000 workers laid off from his factory during the "international financial crisis." Life filmed him then in "Geraldo-off line," trying to work out the connection between the financial crises in Asia, Russia and Brazil and attempting to understand the personal impact of globalization. This film looks at the effects of globalization over the past five years in Brazil through Geraldo’s eyes, examining how institutions like the IMF and the World Bank have been dealing with a government which is not paying its external debt. This program is part of a 27-part series that explores global efforts to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for halving poverty by 2015.

Guidance Counselors Share Strategies for Encouraging Girls in Science, Math, Engineering and Technology in Their Schools (58 min.)
LC212.82 .G85 2001
Summary: David Sadker and four public school guidance counselors discuss the strategies that counselors and teachers can use to ensure gender fair school environments and assist girls and young women in making good academic and career choices regarding the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering.

Highway to Cyberia (45 min.)
QA76.9.C66H53 1994
Summary: This program examines the near future of computers, focusing on technologies that may make it possible to shop and bank at home, watch movies on demand, and experience virtual reality. The program balances this vision of the future with questions about information overload, increasing user isolation, and coping with the speed of change.

La Vie sur Terre = Life on Earth (61 min.)
PN1992.77.V54 1999z
Summary: A fictional documentary that points out the significance of the start of the 21st century and our so-called Information Age while the people in a village in Mali are still struggling to enter the 20th century.

Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (59 min.)
QA76.9.C66S425 1996
Summary: The lively Clifford Stoll discusses topics from his book: Silicon snake oil: second thoughts on the information superhighway. Prof. Stoll speaks for approx. 30 min. about the current "culture of computing" and the societal impact of the applications of computerized communications technology. He then addresses questions from the audience for the remainder of the time. Recorded April 4, 1996 in San Francisco at the Commonwealth Club of California and broadcast by C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network).

Technology and Change (23 min.)
T14.5.T44 1990
Summary: Looks at some of the effects of rapid technological change on personal lives, business practice, and society at large. Industrial and academic authorities discuss the implications of computers, microtechnology, and a range of other innovations.

Towards the Global Family (22 min.)
P90.T68
Summary: Arthur C. Clarke, developer of the communications satellite concept, traces the communications revolution from the invention of printing to the development of the computer. He also addresses the impact of this revolution on business, industry, finance, the military, and global relations.

Vartan Gregorian: Living in the Information Age (26 min.)
LC191.4.V37 1994
Summary: Brown University President Varton Gregorian shares his views on the information age and how education must show a direct connection between this information and life.

Virtual Equality (57 min.)
LC213.2.V57 2000
Summary: Examines the urgent need in inner cities for technology-centered education through home computer access, community technology centers, and schools that are properly funded and staffed. Assesses the use of computers as tools for higher education as opposed to merely being used as drill masters. Originally broadcast in 1999 as a segment of the television program Digital Divide: Teachers, Technology, and the Classroom.

Worlds Out of Time (48 min.)
T14.5.W6 1995
Summary: Incorporates "advanced 3D computer graphics" along with interviews with ten computer experts, scientists, philosophers, and authors from various countries. The interviewees discuss the idea of an increasingly homogenous, technology-dominated, global culture assimilating the many diverse cultures of the world. Their comments focus on the role and impact of technology regarding this phenomenon.

Yesterday, Tomorrow and You (50 min.)
T15.C66 1990z pt.10
Summary: This final episode of the Connections series with James Burke focuses on technological change as an accelerating force in modern civilization. Analyzes the basic causes of invention and technical change by use of examples from the past, and also comments on the roles of communication and specialization in society. Include speculation on human responses to future changes.

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