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…
Welcome back all. Here is Digitally Literate, issue #320. I posted the following this week: Think of your life in chunks – Bill Gates is given attribution for stating that “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” How you think abotu today…and plan…
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 -…
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 -…
“This is what disinformation looks like. There’s many forms, many intermediate aims, but the long term goal is not to *use* the information environment, but to render it inoperable. Once accuracy bias and trust are eliminated there is only power. https://t.co/aUAbEotOLO”
Thread by @holden: “This is what disinformation looks like. There’s many forms, many intermediate aims, but the long term goal is not to use the information env […]”
It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971, and twenty-two-year-old Douglas Korpi, a slim, short-statured Berkeley graduate with a mop of pale, shaggy hair, was locked in a dark closet in the…
Ben Blum on the Stanford Prison Experiment in Medium. The famous psychology experiment was apparently a sham, and yet it continues to inform criminal justice policy, education and more. It was a defining moment in what has become perhaps the best-known psychology study of all time. Whether you learned about Philip Zimbardo’s famous “Stanford Prison Experiment”…
This post from Andrew Keene Woods on the Lawfare blog is a great legal primer on the moving parts of the debacle. Woods indicates that this was not a ‘breach’ of data, but it was a breach of trust. Several key takeaways from this piece by Woods: [Aleksandr] Kogan did not need to get Facebook data through the back door.…