Fwd: [Doctorow] Watching Back: a mailing list for kids who care about freedom and technology
Janet Hawtin
From: Cory Doctorow <doct...@craphound.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:55 AM
Subject: [Doctorow] Watching Back: a mailing list for kids who care
about freedom and technology
To: Janet Hawtin <lucy...@gmail.com>
Cc: doct...@ctyme.com
Smári McCarthy, a high-school teacher in Iceland, has been teaching a
course unit on civil liberties and technological literacy based around
my novel Little Brother. He's launched a new Google Group for the kids
in his class (and other classes around the world) to continue the
discussion -- what an awesome idea!
> At the end of the last class yesterday the idea came up to form a
> mailing list for young people who're interested in digital freedoms,
> computer security and so on, and one of the students suggested that we
> call the list "Watching Back". The list is watchi...@googlegroups.com
> and almost all the kids who took the course are on it.
>
> It would be great if people running similar courses could get their
> students involved on the list, and that teachers and other people who
> know something about the subject hang around and help guide the
> discussion as mentors.
>
> There's a lot to discuss. A running theme through the course was the
> importance of the power of young people to influence the world. I read
> from the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace in the last class,
> because it is somewhat prophetic of what is going on:
>
> "You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a
> world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you
> entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are
> too cowardly to confront yourselves."
>
> Throughout the network young people are being empowered to change the
> world, they're figuring out the beauty of the hacker culture and the
> fight for freedom. In a world where big brother is watching with
> increasing scrutiny it is a big relief to know that at least the
> children are watching back.
Watching Back:
http://groups.google.com/group/watchingback?lnk=srg
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