Hello all, welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #357. I posted the following this week: Making Sense of ChatGPT and GPT-3 – I’ve been thinking about this topic for some time, and I finally started writing things down and sharing. This is the first post. Make Your Next Conference Proposal a Smash Hit with an AI…
Welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #332. I presented three sessions this week at TLT Con 2022. Student Privacy and Pandemics: Understanding and Reducing Privacy and Security Risks – I discuss the different types of student data, how that data is used, and the key policies, practices, and procedures that schools and districts should implement to…
Hello All! This week I published the following: Annotated bibliography of research in the teaching of English – I grew up studying the Annotated Bibliography of Research in Teaching of English from NCTE. This year I was asked to help Candace Doerr-Stevens and Robin Jocius write up the section on Digital/Technology Tools. Repurpose and Reshare…
The Knapsack Problem Digitally Lit #237 – 3/14/2020** Hi all, welcome to issue #237 of Digitally Literate. I posted and shared the following this week: Teaching When Things Go Sideways – In this post I share the talk I have with students as we prepare for the unplanned in our classrooms. Building Ethical Communities -…
Digitally Literate #228 Under Observation Digitally Lit #228 – 1/11/2020 Hi all, welcome to issue #228 of Digitally Literate. If you haven’t already, please subscribe if you would like this to show up in your email inbox. If you’re reading on the website, feel free to leave a comment behind. You can also use Hypothesis…
What Tomorrow Holds Digitally Lit #223 – 11/24/2019 Hi all, welcome to issue #223 of Digitally Literate, thanks for stopping by. Please subscribe if you would like this to show up in your email inbox. This week’s issue is a day late as I was heading back from presentations at the National Council of Teachers…
The reporter who broke the Cambridge Analytica–Facebook scandal has taken down the tech giants for undermining democracy. In a TED Talk in Vancouver, Carole Cadwalladr called out the “gods of Silicon Valley” for their role in helping authoritarians consolidate their power in different countries. Some quotes from the TED talk Facebook, you were on the wrong side…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren published an extensive plan on Friday to break up big tech companies likes Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple. If elected president in 2020, Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said that she would pass legislation that would classify large tech platforms with annual global revenue of $25 billion or more as “platform utilities,” and break them apart via…
New research suggests that a majority of teachers believe technology is helping them do a better job in the classroom. The research also suggests that many educators are concerned digital devices can cause physical and mental harm to students. All annotations in context. The 2018 Teaching with Technology Survey was published by the website Campus Technology. Of those questioned, 44…
Thread by @Lollardfish: “Good morning. My theory on technology in the classroom is this: Our choice is between surveillance vs teaching students to use tech well. Ba […]”