Sometimes we must interfere Digitally Lit #249 – 6/6/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #249 of Digitally Literate. Each week in this newsletter, I synthesize the news of the week in education, technology, & literacy. Thank you for joining us. This week’s issue was a very hard one to pull together. I hope you find…
Social justice belongs in our schools, says educator Sydney Chaffee. In a bold talk, she shows how teaching students to engage in activism helps them build important academic and life skills — and asks us to rethink how we can use education to help kids find their voices. “Teaching will always be a political act,”…
D-CENT project (Decentralised Citizens Engagement Technologies) that has been working to transform democracy – helping movements, cities and political parties to build technologies, methods and tools that can make the democratic system work for 21st century aspirations. D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating open, secure and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. A federated architecture –…
This group shows activists of color how to protect themselves from digital threats.
This group shows activists of color how to protect themselves from digital threats. In response, a group of organizers at the Center for Media Justice and May First/PeopleLink put together a digital self-defense toolkit called Defend Our Movements. Their goal is to help activists, especially activists of color, protect their data, encrypt their communications, and learn…