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https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Kallwine 2026-09-18T19:11:56Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.22.0 https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_13_Questions/Comments 2011-04-12T00:46:50Z

<p>Kallwine: New page: At times, Andrew Ross’s article seemed prophetic. Think about the time that he is writing: 1991. Some of us were just being born. Others were too young to use computers. At this time, co...</p> <hr /> <div>At times, Andrew Ross’s article seemed prophetic. Think about the time that he is writing: 1991. Some of us were just being born. Others were too young to use computers. At this time, computers and the Internet were a new technology. Ross discusses how being a hacker or computer user is becoming “Cooler” and not so nerdy that there was no longer an educational elite that computers were restricted to. Nowadays, the nerd or hacker is a hero and endearing. They are popular in movies, TV shows, and books. Ross’s article is quite prophetic with this.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine<br /> <br /> I was hoping Ross would take advantage of a historiographical question that was looming in my head, but he did not. This may be, because it is outside the scope of his article or that they were unanswerable in 1991. One of these is how has the Internet shaped or unshaped social aspects, such as identity. Ross hints at this describing how cybernetic identity is never used up, but he generalized that hackers were upper middle-class white men. Anyone that has played World of Warcraft knows that this is not the case and that on the Internet identity is fluid. A person can be user: CuteLady102 on overstock.com ordering jewelry or cutelady102 on a discussion site for motorcyclists.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine <br /> <br /> Another social aspect that was foreseen was the democratization of computer use. At least 90% of Americans have touched a computer. No longer is it only the white middle-class and college educated that use computers. Another correlation that can be drawn from this is that more and more hackers are form diverse backgrounds. Ross mistakenly stated that hackers were not politically motivated. It seems that that is the primary reason for hacking nowadays, which also leads to hackers of diverse backgrounds.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_12_Questions/Comments 2011-04-05T19:22:40Z

<p>Kallwine: New page: In David Nye’s excerpt, he states quite clearly that the use of electric appliances began as a form of novelty or conspicuous display. Table 6.1 only enhances this argument, where it sho...</p> <hr /> <div>In David Nye’s excerpt, he states quite clearly that the use of electric appliances began as a form of novelty or conspicuous display. Table 6.1 only enhances this argument, where it shows that in 1921, the wealthy held the greatest percentages of appliances. They were also the only class with electric ranges. All for novelty, not simplification or the reduction of housework.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine<br /> <br /> Nye also presents an interesting argument with the increase of bachelor living. It appears that the use of electric appliances allowed for the creation of a bachelor house, because they could perform the work of the housewife. I find this argument to be contradictory though. If it reduces the amount of work to allow for bachelor to 10 or 12 hours, then it should have a similar effect on women’s work. This is not presented in his piece; rather he shows that women’s work only increased.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_11_Questions/Comments 2011-03-28T23:33:10Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div>In previous readings, we learned the gender implications of technology and the effects that technology had on gender. In the article by Cowan, it was interesting that Romantics seemed reacted quite negatively towards manufacturing machines. It is not surprising given the ideals held by the Romantics, but it is an interesting perspective. Technology affects art. The boom of technology at the turn of the century may have also led to the creation of the Arts and Crafts Style house, which was popular during this same time period. Ironically, a lot of the detail elements on these homes were manufactured in factories.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine<br /> <br /> The “How Electricity Effects Economy in the Home and Adds to the Happiness of the Family,” section out of the Smith and Clancey reading was interesting to read as an educator, because the use of radios in child play is the equivalent of the modern integration of technology in the classrooms. The theory or idea behind it is that play can lead to innovation. <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_11_Questions/Comments 2011-03-28T23:21:24Z

<p>Kallwine: New page: In previous readings, we learned the gender implications of technology and the effects that technology had on gender. In the article by Cowan, it was interesting that Romantics seemed reac...</p> <hr /> <div>In previous readings, we learned the gender implications of technology and the effects that technology had on gender. In the article by Cowan, it was interesting that Romantics seemed reacted quite negatively towards manufacturing machines. It is not surprising given the ideals held by the Romantics, but it is an interesting perspective. Technology affects art. The boom of technology at the turn of the century may have also led to the creation of the Arts and Crafts Style house, which was popular during this same time period. Ironically, a lot of the detail elements on these homes were manufactured in factories.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_10_Questions/Comments 2011-03-21T21:14:52Z

<p>Kallwine: New page: On page 213, it was quite interesting that a main factor in pursuing nuclear energy was not necessarily to improve the quality of life in America. It is proposed that atomic energy was pur...</p> <hr /> <div>On page 213, it was quite interesting that a main factor in pursuing nuclear energy was not necessarily to improve the quality of life in America. It is proposed that atomic energy was pursued to negate the Soviet Union’s possible use of it to convert developing nations to its side. <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine<br /> <br /> The video that was posted on the readings page was incredibly emotional and thought provoking. I had no idea that there were that many tests of nuclear devices, especially by the United States. It seems that once you knew that it worked, i.e. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you would not need to keep testing. <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine<br /> <br /> In this modern day, I believe that many students have been desensitized to the entire process of nuclear power and weapons. It is shown as a very powerful thing in modern media, but it is also shown as a very controlled thing. These conceptions are not too different from what the U.S. was trying to achieve in the 50’s and 60’s, which leads me to believe that in the long run, they were successful.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_9_Questions/Comments 2011-03-15T02:38:02Z

<p>Kallwine: New page: It is interesting to note that when Nye discusses the reason for the streetcar&#039;s demise, he states that a major reason is the consolidation of the companies. The consolidation raises rates...</p> <hr /> <div>It is interesting to note that when Nye discusses the reason for the streetcar&#039;s demise, he states that a major reason is the consolidation of the companies. The consolidation raises rates, because there is no competition. This is also the reason for the lessening amounts of investment. In these suburbs and cities, they are the only provider. Therefore, in order to increase revenues, they will lower the cost of production/investment.<br /> <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine<br /> <br /> When discussing the social outcomes of the streetcars, Nye states &quot;its tracks pushed through the existing social fabric, pulling apart the urban structure...&quot; The automobile will do this as well and to a much greater degree. It will be possible for suburbs to be farther and farther away pushing the classes farther apart. Eventually, the taxes are so low and the revenues are so low for the streetcars that public transportation becomes unbearable. The automobile helped push the streetcar out of the cities, while pulling apart the classes of people.<br /> <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine<br /> <br /> The 26 questions to decide whether the engineering profession is right seem to be applicable questions to ask even today. By looking at these questions and studying them, one can determine the objectives, goals, and processes used by engineers in the early 20th century.<br /> <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_8_Questions/Comments 2011-03-08T00:21:26Z

<p>Kallwine: New page: Kleinegger’s basic thesis is that the rise of urbanization and technology displaced farm women from their normal duties. Did increases in food production allow urbanization or did urbani...</p> <hr /> <div>Kleinegger’s basic thesis is that the rise of urbanization and technology displaced farm women from their normal duties. Did increases in food production allow urbanization or did urbanization force technology to increase production abilities? On page 174, Kleinegger writes, “Several factors led to the greater mechanization of dairying. The rapidly increasing population in urban centers created a demand for milk far greater than… farm areas could meet.” It is a matter of what caused which, but it is central to this discussion. <br /> <br /> The discussion of making the woman an equal business partner is interesting, because it is almost two decades after the 19th Constitutional Amendment. It shows that the women’s equality movement had permeated into rural America just like the modern appliances and utilities had. <br /> <br /> In Green’s discussion, the most powerful pieces of evidence are the data table at the end of the section showing the percentages of workers by race per decade and the testimony of Walter D. Williams, one of the managers. <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_6_Questions/Comments 2011-02-14T22:09:34Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div>The reading from last week discussing how nations and people view levels of civilization through a lens of technology is supported or enhanced by Nye’s discussion of the World’s Fair. In a walled off section, there was an electricity display with lights. From this point onward, all civilization would be judged based upon whether or not it was lit up at night by Edison’s innovations. In other parts of the fair, they had displays of less civilized people, such as Natives, Mexicans, and Blacks in the Old South. The bar of civilization has been raised.<br /> <br /> Westinghouse had an electric car in 1901? This is quite interesting. According to a little online research, there were many other automobile companies testing electric automobiles, almost one hundred. It is interesting how the best technology does not always win or rather, what we conceive as the best technology. Had electricity and the storage of electricity been more feasible at the time, electric automobiles may have won the technological selection process and modern times would be quite different.<br /> <br /> This reading also brings up the interesting discussion of the affect of electricity in rural america. As it would be expected, it took much longer for the electric lines and technologies to reach rural america. I believe it has less to do with an unwilling culture and more to do with the lack of private corporations that saw the spread out Midwest and South as feasible markets. <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_6_Questions/Comments 2011-02-14T01:55:45Z

<p>Kallwine: New page: The reading from last week discussing how nations and people view levels of civilization through a lens of technology is supported or enhanced by Nye’s discussion of the World’s Fair. ...</p> <hr /> <div>The reading from last week discussing how nations and people view levels of civilization through a lens of technology is supported or enhanced by Nye’s discussion of the World’s Fair. In a walled off section, there was an electricity display with lights. From this point onward, all civilization would be judged based upon whether or not it was lit up at night by Edison’s innovations. In other parts of the fair, they had displays of less civilized people, such as Natives, Mexicans, and Blacks in the Old South. The bar of civilization has been raised.<br /> <br /> Westinghouse had an electric car in 1901? This is quite interesting. According to a little online research, there were many other automobile companies testing electric automobiles, almost one hundred. It is interesting how the best technology does not always win or rather, what we conceive as the best technology. Had electricity and the storage of electricity been more feasible at the time, electric automobiles may have won the technological selection process and modern times would be quite different.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_5_Questions/Comments 2011-02-08T02:39:28Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div> In the watchmaking article (151-152), I noticed a lot of similarities between the descriptions of the usage of women to work on watches in comparison to using women in the Lowell mills. The women tend to be more dexterous and can work on smaller, more detailed objects and therefore were more often and willingly hired to work in these situations. It also shows a little bit of the transfer from the apprenticeship/master to the factory—it was frustrating to lose women to marriage in watch making because learning those skills took a long time but as soon as they learned them, the women went off to be married, but in the Lowell system, sending women off to be married was not a problem because they were doing unskilled labor. <br /> Frederick Taylor’s article on Scientific Management reminded me of the article we read for last week that focused on men as being part of the machine. It seems to be a common trend in this era that those that run the factory think of men as merely part of the machine, but there is a pushback from workers with unions, strikes, resistance, etc. Scientific Management controls every movement of the worker, as if it was controlling a machine that can be fixed and adjusted. --Sara Krechel<br /> <br /> Reading the short letters at the end of the reading, we are seeing different ways where people are trying to be more productive by shortening the length of time it takes to do something. In the Laundress writing, you have them shortening the distance the iron was carried and how far the operator was walking per uniform and they were becoming more effective and productive. Whereas with the canoe makers, they create these dry bins to reduce the drying time from ten days down to four. After shipping out the canoes to Macys, 275 of the 500 came back due to warping and cracking. While everyone wants to find new ways to be more productive, however the logistics involved didn&#039;t quite add up for the canoes. Shortening the distance someone has to walk to do laundry was clearly a time saver, whereas the canoe makers found out the hard way that canoes need ten days for a reason. - Matthew Beere<br /> <br /> In the earlier Colonial periods, the degree of civilization was based upon numerous characteristics, such as how the towns were set up, were there towns at all, were the inhabitants naked, did they have social hierarchy? These were the standards utilized by the Spanish, English, and French to justify subjugation, slavery, or conquering. In the industrial age, these ways of categorizing and describing cultures changes with the scientific inquiry and standards of measurement discussed by Adas in his article.<br /> <br /> I found fault with his argument though that technology becomes the barometer for civilization, because the colonial powers used technology in earlier periods to describe superiority as well. For example, the use of crude guns, gunpowder, metallurgy, and other trades were seen as far superior to the Native technologies and therefore showed their culture’s lower place in the natural order. If anything, the type of technology and the amount of technology used as a barometer for civilization expands, but it did not begin here.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_5_Questions/Comments 2011-02-08T02:39:03Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div> In the watchmaking article (151-152), I noticed a lot of similarities between the descriptions of the usage of women to work on watches in comparison to using women in the Lowell mills. The women tend to be more dexterous and can work on smaller, more detailed objects and therefore were more often and willingly hired to work in these situations. It also shows a little bit of the transfer from the apprenticeship/master to the factory—it was frustrating to lose women to marriage in watch making because learning those skills took a long time but as soon as they learned them, the women went off to be married, but in the Lowell system, sending women off to be married was not a problem because they were doing unskilled labor. <br /> Frederick Taylor’s article on Scientific Management reminded me of the article we read for last week that focused on men as being part of the machine. It seems to be a common trend in this era that those that run the factory think of men as merely part of the machine, but there is a pushback from workers with unions, strikes, resistance, etc. Scientific Management controls every movement of the worker, as if it was controlling a machine that can be fixed and adjusted. --Sara Krechel<br /> <br /> Reading the short letters at the end of the reading, we are seeing different ways where people are trying to be more productive by shortening the length of time it takes to do something. In the Laundress writing, you have them shortening the distance the iron was carried and how far the operator was walking per uniform and they were becoming more effective and productive. Whereas with the canoe makers, they create these dry bins to reduce the drying time from ten days down to four. After shipping out the canoes to Macys, 275 of the 500 came back due to warping and cracking. While everyone wants to find new ways to be more productive, however the logistics involved didn&#039;t quite add up for the canoes. Shortening the distance someone has to walk to do laundry was clearly a time saver, whereas the canoe makers found out the hard way that canoes need ten days for a reason. - Matthew Beere<br /> <br /> In the earlier Colonial periods, the degree of civilization was based upon numerous characteristics, such as how the towns were set up, were there towns at all, were the inhabitants naked, did they have social hierarchy? These were the standards utilized by the Spanish, English, and French to justify subjugation, slavery, or conquering. In the industrial age, these ways of categorizing and describing cultures changes with the scientific inquiry and standards of measurement discussed by Adas in his article.<br /> I found fault with his argument though that technology becomes the barometer for civilization, because the colonial powers used technology in earlier periods to describe superiority as well. For example, the use of crude guns, gunpowder, metallurgy, and other trades were seen as far superior to the Native technologies and therefore showed their culture’s lower place in the natural order. If anything, the type of technology and the amount of technology used as a barometer for civilization expands, but it did not begin here.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_4_Questions/Comments 2011-02-01T01:18:50Z

<p>Kallwine: New page: It is surprising that the artists were showing picturesque scenes of the railroads. What was their motivation? For some of the artists, they were paid to paint the scenes within the train ...</p> <hr /> <div>It is surprising that the artists were showing picturesque scenes of the railroads. What was their motivation? For some of the artists, they were paid to paint the scenes within the train cars and on the coal cars, but what about the other artists? It may be that the artists did not quite grasp the long-term effects of the train. They saw it as bringing economic prosperity and opening up new lands, which are all positive things. The most obvious answer is the idea of Manifest Destiny.<br /> <br /> Some of the paintings, such as Lackawanna Valley, show a transition between modernity and the beautiful pastoral lands, but the changing landscape does not look ugly or repulsive. <br /> <br /> In Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, it is interesting that the smoke is blowing onto the Native Americans. This could be symbolic of many things, but mostly how technology will conquer the West.<br /> <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_3_Questions/Comments 2011-01-25T01:38:40Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div>A theme I noticed in the Steinberg article and the letters from Harpers Ferry was a disconnection between the owners of the machinery and the workers. The owners don’t necessarily realize the day-to-day workings of the machine and the demands of the workers, but the workers fail to see big picture ideas. The tension between the two causes many problems eventually, and this reaction hurts overall production. In short, industrial capitalism pitted the laborer against the owners of capital. In direct contrast, McGaw mentions that the introduction of the machine forged new bonds between the worker and owner because they both shared a responsibility for mechanization. My question is can the worker and owner actually bond over this? It seems that those two groups would have different and contrasting motives, which would actually sever any bond, as is suggested in Steinberg’s article and the one on Harper’s Ferry.<br /> I also thought that Steinberg made a good example of how not everyone will really be happy about technological development when he discussed farmers’ reaction to dams being built. Not many of them were pleased with the damns, and it actually hurt their production and property because they are not represented in the workforce that wants a dam, so they get left behind in that development. --Sara Krechel<br /> <br /> The need for female labor allowed the women to stay at home and still be paid by the paper mills. This kind of phenomenon is completely absent from modern factories. Perhaps the married women took off more often, because their husbands objected to them working. Another theory could be that the married women were expected to be home more often, so they left for months at a time to take care of household things. For example, the piece talks about a sick friend, but maternity leave and sick children could also be to blame.<br /> <br /> There may have been more motivations for the Lake Company to control the water levels then just for the mills in Massachusetts. By flooding the smaller mills and depleting them of water at different times, they destroy the small competition for labor and for textiles. There were few if any anti-trust laws at this time to prevent the mills in Massachusetts from eliminating all competition. Also, by being a separate corporation, it does not appear that the large Lowell mills are behind it. They may not have been, but there is more evidence to suggest that they were.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_3_Questions/Comments 2011-01-25T01:35:43Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div>A theme I noticed in the Steinberg article and the letters from Harpers Ferry was a disconnection between the owners of the machinery and the workers. The owners don’t necessarily realize the day-to-day workings of the machine and the demands of the workers, but the workers fail to see big picture ideas. The tension between the two causes many problems eventually, and this reaction hurts overall production. In short, industrial capitalism pitted the laborer against the owners of capital. In direct contrast, McGaw mentions that the introduction of the machine forged new bonds between the worker and owner because they both shared a responsibility for mechanization. My question is can the worker and owner actually bond over this? It seems that those two groups would have different and contrasting motives, which would actually sever any bond, as is suggested in Steinberg’s article and the one on Harper’s Ferry.<br /> I also thought that Steinberg made a good example of how not everyone will really be happy about technological development when he discussed farmers’ reaction to dams being built. Not many of them were pleased with the damns, and it actually hurt their production and property because they are not represented in the workforce that wants a dam, so they get left behind in that development. --Sara Krechel<br /> <br /> The need for female labor allowed the women to stay at home and still be paid by the paper mills. This kind of phenomenon is completely absent from modern factories. Perhaps the married women took off more often, because their husbands objected to them working. Another theory could be that the married women were expected to be home more often, so they left for months at a time to take care of household things. For example, the piece talks about a sick friend, but maternity leave and sick children could also be to blame.<br /> <br /> There may have been more motivations for the Lake Company to control the water levels then just for the mills in Massachusetts. By flooding the smaller mills and depleted them of water at different times, they destroy the small competition for labor and for textiles. There were few if any anti-trust laws at this time to prevent the mills in Massachusetts from eliminating all competition. Also, by being a separate corporation, it does not appear that the large Lowell mills are behind it. They may not have been, but there is more evidence to suggest that they were.<br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_3_Questions/Comments 2011-01-25T00:48:04Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div>A theme I noticed in the Steinberg article and the letters from Harpers Ferry was a disconnection between the owners of the machinery and the workers. The owners don’t necessarily realize the day-to-day workings of the machine and the demands of the workers, but the workers fail to see big picture ideas. The tension between the two causes many problems eventually, and this reaction hurts overall production. In short, industrial capitalism pitted the laborer against the owners of capital. In direct contrast, McGaw mentions that the introduction of the machine forged new bonds between the worker and owner because they both shared a responsibility for mechanization. My question is can the worker and owner actually bond over this? It seems that those two groups would have different and contrasting motives, which would actually sever any bond, as is suggested in Steinberg’s article and the one on Harper’s Ferry.<br /> I also thought that Steinberg made a good example of how not everyone will really be happy about technological development when he discussed farmers’ reaction to dams being built. Not many of them were pleased with the damns, and it actually hurt their production and property because they are not represented in the workforce that wants a dam, so they get left behind in that development. --Sara Krechel<br /> <br /> The need for female labor allowed the women to stay at home and still be paid by the paper mills. This kind of phenomenon is completely absent from modern factories. <br /> <br /> Perhaps the married women took off more often, because their husbands objected to them working. Another theory could be that the married women were expected to be home more often, so they left for months at a time to take care of household things. For example, the piece talks about a sick friend, but maternity leave and sick children could also be to blame.<br /> <br /> There were more motivations for the Lake Company to control the water levels then just for the mills in Massachusetts. By flooding the smaller mills and depleted them of water at different times, they destroy the small competition for labor and for textiles. There were few if any anti-trust laws at this time to prevent the mills in Massachusetts from eliminating all competition. <br /> <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_2_Questions/Comments 2011-01-18T19:13:53Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div>== Cross-Document Questions ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Judith McGaw -- &quot;So Much Depends...&quot; ==<br /> <br /> McGaw’s theory of technology accessibility in the frontier of Pennsylvania gives serious doubts to the “Independent spirit” that is postulated in Frederick Jackson Turner’s writings in the 1890’s about the frontier. Turner’s belief was that the self-sufficiency of Americans began with and fermented in the frontier, but McGaw’s data shows otherwise. It shows communities with farmers having other farmers process their textiles, grain, and fruits. Was this due to some farmers having the money or wealth to buy the technology to process or was there a division of labor amongst families in the frontier? ~~Kyle Allwine<br /> <br /> <br /> == American Colonial Wealth (Document A) ==<br /> <br /> <br /> == Thomas Jefferson, Tenche Coxe, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Cooper -- Documents on Factories ==<br /> <br /> It is quite ironic that Thomas Jefferson learned that manufacturing has its uses and its strength as a profitable enterprise. His farms were in ruin, but his nail business did well garnering a profit for him.<br /> <br /> Thomas Jefferson is quite picky. He does not want any manufacturing. He only wants what we would call today in history textbooks “Cottage industry.” He states several times that any family can create their own clothing, but that is false. A $60 carding machine is out of the league of most yeoman farmers in the South.<br /> <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine<br /> <br /> == Leo Marx&#039;s &quot;The Machine&quot; ==</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_2_Questions/Comments 2011-01-18T18:41:14Z

<p>Kallwine: New page: McGaw’s theory of technology accessibility in the frontier of Pennsylvania gives serious doubts to the “Independent spirit” that is postulated in Frederick Jackson Turner’s writing...</p> <hr /> <div>McGaw’s theory of technology accessibility in the frontier of Pennsylvania gives serious doubts to the “Independent spirit” that is postulated in Frederick Jackson Turner’s writings in the 1890’s about the frontier. Turner’s belief was that the self-sufficiency of Americans began with and fermented in the frontier, but McGaw’s data shows otherwise. It shows communities with farmers having other farmers process their textiles, grain, and fruits. Was this due to some farmers having the money or wealth to buy the technology to process or was there a division of labor amongst families in the frontier?<br /> <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_1_Questions/Comments 2011-01-11T21:32:12Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div>My really smart comment goes here. -- Dr. McClurken<br /> <br /> I disagree that you are smart. -- Joey<br /> <br /> With regard to the technology in education article, it has been proven in multiple different studies that project or problem-based learning is essential for students. The education system of paper and pencil is obsolete. Why do we no longer send letters, because we have email? Why do we give our students worksheets, because no one wants to break the mold or can do to policy? The design of schools has changed very little since the one-room school houses of the early 20th century. There has been over a hundred years of advancement in technology, but yet students still sit at desks with pencil and paper.<br /> <br /> Not only are kids learning a lot outside the classrooms, but also they are experiencing a lot. Students watch TV, they go on walks, they get on the computer, they eat, and they sleep, but do they know why, how, what, who, and when? Are they taking what they learn in the classroom and applying it to the outside world? I doubt students leave math class and see the golden proportions of the Fibonacci sequence in seashells, but scientists do. Cross-curriculum and cross subject education must go beyond the classroom. <br /> <br /> Failure-based learning is an odd concept, because it seems almost unrealistic. Yes, not all mistakes are life changing, but you cannot always just hit restart. There must be real circumstances and consequences within these. Oregon trail was the best game at this. Go through the swamp and you may get malaria, but it is faster.<br /> <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

Kallwine https://mcclurken.umwhistory.org/wiki/index.php?title=325--2011--Week_1_Questions/Comments 2011-01-11T21:27:54Z

<p>Kallwine: </p> <hr /> <div>My really smart comment goes here. -- Dr. McClurken<br /> <br /> I disagree that you are smart. -- Joey<br /> <br /> With regard to the technology in education article, tt has been proven in multiple different studies that project or problem-based learning is essential for students. The education system of paper and pencil is obsolete. Why do we no longer send letters, because we have email? Why do we give our students worksheets, because no one wants to break the mold or can do to policy? The design of schools has changed very little since the one-room school houses of the early 20th century. There has been over a hundred years of advancement in technology, but yet students still sit at desks with pencil and paper.<br /> <br /> Not only are kids learning a lot outside the classrooms, but also they are experiencing a lot. Students watch TV, they go on walks, they get on the computer, they eat, and they sleep, but do they know why, how, what, who, and when? Are they taking what they learn in the classroom and applying it to the outside world? I doubt students leave math class and see the golden proportions of the Fibonacci sequence in seashells, but scientists do. Cross-curriculum and cross subject education must go beyond the classroom. <br /> <br /> Failure-based learning is an odd concept, because it seems almost unrealistic. Yes, not all mistakes are life changing, but you cannot always just hit restart. There must be real circumstances and consequences within these. Oregon trail was the best game at this. Go through the swamp and you may get malaria, but it is faster.<br /> <br /> ~~Kyle Allwine</div>

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