Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Women in Activism

This week Janet tells us all about the history of women in activism. From Versailles to Ancient Rome, women have been movers and shakers...or perhaps we should say Quakers? Want to learn more? Tune in!


References: Coming Soon!

Thursday, April 13, 2017

The Joys of Podcasting

So, we're going to have to delay to next week do to a series of silly and then unfortunate events.

I was out of town until Monday on a research trip and completely forgot it was, you know, Monday. I'm on Spring Break, and that might explain a bit. I decided to put off the post until Thursday so I could finish editing, and got to work.

I woke up Wednesday morning with a bricked computer.  Something updated in the overnight and tanked my whole system. It took me, quite literally, all day and most of the evening to get everything back to where it was, and in the process I lost my editing program and edited files.

I managed to save the originals, but the frustration is making me insane. So, I made an executive decision and decided it's better to push the pod off a week than cry trying to make soemthing that's just supposed to be a fun hobby for us.

We'll be back next week on our regular schedule.

Thank you for understanding!

Corrine

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Millenials are NOT Digital Natives

This week Corrine explains why she believes that Millenials simply can't be digital natives as they are so often touted to be. Listen to find out why!

References:

Facer, K. & Furlong, R. (2001). Beyond the Myth of the Cyberkid: Young People at the Margins of the Information Revolution. Journal of Youth Studies. 4 (4). Pp 451-469.

Flewitt, R., Messer, D., and Kucirkova, N. (2014). New directions for early literacy in a digital age: the iPad. J. Early Child. Lit. doi: 10.1177/1468798414533560.

Greenstein, S. (2016). How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Hutchison, A., Beschorner, B., &Schmidt-Crawford, D. (2012). Exploring the use of the iPad for literacy learning. Read. Teach. 66, 15–23. doi: 10.1002/TRTR.01090

Krcmar, M., and Cingel, D. P. (2014). Parent–child joint reading in traditional and electronic formats. Media Psychology. doi: 10.1080/15213269.2013.840243.

Kucirkova, N. (2014) iPads in Early Education: Separating Assumptions and Evidence. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. doi 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00715

Mueller, P. A., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2014). The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking. Psychological Science, 25 (6) pp. 1159-1168. doi: 10.1177/0956797614524581

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The First Amendment and Freedom of Speech

This week Corrine tells you all about the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution, what "freedom of speech" really is, and when you give it up (hint: all of the time)! Tune in to learn more about just how misunderstood the 1st is in the US!

References:

American Bar Association. (2015) Section of Litigation: Children’s Rights Litigation-Case Notes: Landmark Juvenile Law Cases: First Amendment. Retrieved from https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/childrights/content/notes/landmark_01.html 

Landers, A. (18 Dec. 1997). Not Everyone is Cut Out for Marriage. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-12-18/features/9712180096_1_dear-ann-landers-marriage-single-women 

Legal Information Institute-Cornell University. (n.d.) U.S. Constitution: First Amendment. Retrieved from https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The Financial Cost of Motherhood

Sorry for the late post! References to follow!

This week Janet tells us about motherhood. Specifically, the cost of child bearing to women! Want to know more? Listen now!



Center for Disease Control. “Key Statistics From NSFG.” National Survey of Family Growth. 2015. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics.htm. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017.

 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Health Care Expenditures of Research Findings #27: Uncomplicated Pregnancies. Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS-HC. Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends 
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. August 2007. http: www.meps.ahrq.gov. Accessed 2 March 2017.

 Landsburg, Steven. "The Price of Motherhood." Slate. 9 December 2005. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2005/12/the_price_of_motherhood.html. Accessed 2 March 2017.

"What Babies Really Cost." What To Expect. http://www.whattoexpect.com/preconception/preparing-for-baby/work-and-finance/what-babies-really-cost.aspx. Accessed 3 March 2017.