Does Not Compute
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Oct 5, 2021
Daniel Greene, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Alice Marwick discuss how poverty became a technology problem, the influence of philanthropic donations, the failures of techno-solutionism, the transformation of the Democratic Party Coalition, access to global labor markets, the challenges of the current labor market, shifting education landscape, and rethinking technologies in education.
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- The issue of poverty has been transformed into an issue of technology and the skills needed to use it, with 'learning to code' becoming the default response to broken labor markets of the 21st century.
- Philanthropic donations have changed the way political institutions operate, highlighting the successes and failures of techno-solutionism and raising questions about the potential dangers of relying on philanthropic funding for public institutions.
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The problem of poverty becoming a problem of technology and skills
The podcast discusses how the issue of poverty has been transformed into an issue of technology and the skills needed to use it. Drawing on fieldwork in schools, libraries, and startups in Washington, D.C., the podcast explores how the idea of 'learning to code' has become the default response to the broken labor markets of the 21st century.
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