Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #391. Your go-to source for insightful content on education, technology, and the digital landscape. This week, I posted the following: The Flaw in Our Screentime Considerations – Thinking about changes in time-shifting and screen-shifting as we think about the screentime debate. The Paradox of White Racial Resentment: A Review of…
Welcome back! Here’s Digitally Literate, issue #341. I’m stepping away from this newsletter and social media for the month of August. As the summer wraps up, and I prepare for the new academic year, I find it helpful to take a digital detox of sorts. I started this process several years ago when I watched…
Welcome back, friends and family! This week I also posted the following: Breaking Down the Misinformation & Disinformation Ecosystem – The challenge in identifying misinformation from disinformation rests in the purpose of intent of the sender. My Ratio of Signal to Noise – How might I best leverage these spaces, places, and texts to build…
The Coming War Digitally Lit #271 – 12/05/2020 Thank you for being here. You are valued. This week I worked on the following: Trust, But Verify – Users of the Internet become pawns in a flow of information that circulates endlessly in the ether causing a contagion that is nearly insurmountable. Shades of Gray -…
Digitally Literate #228 Under Observation Digitally Lit #228 – 1/11/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #228 of Digitally Literate. If you havenât already, please subscribe if you would like this to show up in your email inbox. If youâre reading on the website, feel free to leave a comment behind. You can also use Hypothesis…
A Broken World Digitally Lit #222 – 11/16/2019 Hi all, welcome to issue #222 of Digitally Literate, thanks for stopping by. Please subscribe if you would like this to show up in your email inbox. This week I posted the following: National Council of Teachers of English Defines Literacy in a Digital Age – Last…
danah boyd argues that we need to develop more sophisticated ways of thinking about technology before jumping to hype and fear. Data-driven and algorithmic systems increasingly underpin many decision-making systems, shaping where law enforcement are stationed and what news you are shown on social media. The design of these systems is inscribed with organizational and…
Mary Madden discussing the privacy and security violations that occur in our increasingly digitized society. This is increasingly true for marginalized and vulnerable populations. The poor experience these two extremes â hypervisibility and invisibility â while often lacking the agency or resources to challenge unfair outcomes. Madden draws on work that focused on privacy perceptions…
Two robots traverse the desert floor. Explosions from a decades-old conflict have left a pockmarked and unstable territory, though many more improvised bombs lie concealed in its vast reaches. Sunlight splays off the beaten edges of Optimus, the smaller robot. Its motors whir as its claw grasps an u…
From Sapiens. This imaginary scene shows the power of learning from others. Anthropologists and zoologists call this âsocial learningâ: picking up new information by observing or interacting with others and the things others produce. Social learning is rife among humans and across the wider animal kingdom. As we discussed in our previous post, learning socially…
We saw some of this happening in earlier research on online reading comprehension. Specifically, I had concerns about how algorithms might impact, shape, or modify what we’re looking for. âGoogling itâ has become the news equivalent of âdo your own research.â But neither Google, nor search terms, are purely neutral. âEven in the face of research…
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