This week I published the following: There Are Always Two Paths – There are always two paths. The darker heavier path, or the lighter easier path. You can always choose to make something already hard worse by your response, or you can choose to make it easier by a different response. Thank You. I’m Sorry.…
Meeting the futureDigitally Lit #210 – 8/10/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to issue #210 of Digitally Literate. In this newsletter I distill the news of the week in technology into an easy-to-read resource. Thank you for reading. Please subscribe if you haven’t already. This week I worked behind the scenes…
Clearing the path Digitally Lit #202 – 6/22/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to issue #202 of Digitally Literate. In this newsletter I curate the news of the week and distilling this down into an easy-to-read resource for you. Thank you for reading. Please subscribe if you haven’t already. This week…
A rich data set from analysis conducted by SparkToro. Zero-click searches have steadily risen over the past three years, up from 12% in 2016 to 48.96% in 2019. No click, or zero-click, searches are a search engine result page (SERP) that displays the answer to a user’s query at the top of a Google search…
Mike Caulfield on “four moves” that students can make as they critically evaluate online information. Stop. Investigate the source. Find better coverage. Trace claims, quotes, and media to the original context.
Credibility Coalition: A diverse, interdisciplinary community committed to building better standards for credibility on the web.
An alternative to throwing credibility to the crowd: convene a community to propose standards and then test rigorously. One effort working systemically working toward creating such standards is the Credibility Coalition, a community of researchers seeking to create shareable, open-source definitions that could be widely adopted. The coalition is also dedicated to reviewable research on how this process will work…