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TLDR 1

Too Long; Didn't Read Issue 1

Published: June 27, 2015 • 📧 Newsletter

🔖 Key Takeaways

Welcome to TL;DR!

Thank you for being one of the first to sign up for my newsletter. In this weekly email, I'll pull together some of the content that I shared out throughout the week. It's basically things that I think you should know and discuss. Please feel free to respond back, and share out with others.

This week I traveled to Charleston to find a new home for my family. I also wrapped up the final week of the ORMS MOOC. I've been heavily involved in revising my blog...and starting this newsletter. :) Finally, I got started in the CLMOOC.

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A celebration of the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision during LGBT Pride Month.

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As internet use nears saturation for some groups, a look at patterns of adoption.

Key takeaways—the Internet is blowing up. :) The digital divides based on race, ethnicity, and education appear to be shrinking. Read the full report here.

Another round of technopanic is spreading through the Internet as the open source version of Chrome was found to have some of the same audio capture code that is contained in Chrome. In a further examination of the code, it appears that Google made a mistake and is addressing it.

The key takeaway is that our devices are listening to us. We need to know and understand what they are doing. Teach your kids to code. :)

Sorry...I love Chuck's books. :)

Sesame Street Was the First MOOC?!?!

Interesting back and forth here. University of Maryland's Melissa Kearney and Wellesley College's Phillip Levine show possible replacement of pre-school through viewing of Sesame Street. The Brookings Institute calls Sesame Street the first MOOC.

Audrey Watters and Stephen Downes quickly debunk that thinking.

I want to believe that before I die...these will finally be a reality. :)

This is really good...and really bad.

Interesting use of gaming and technology as activism and social commentary. It reminds me of the Facebook Mood Survey response I had last year.

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I shared out this link looking at a Kickstarter attempt to build a fancy weather station using the incredible Raspberry Pi. It reminded me that there are a ton of possibilities (one, two, three) to build your own weather station using cheap parts and a little bit of time.

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The key takeaway is that our devices are listening to us. We need to know and understand what they are doing. Teach your kids to code.

This line from the Google audio surveillance story captures the newsletter's founding ethos. As we enter an era of ubiquitous computing—devices always on, always connected, always listening—digital literacy becomes not just an educational nice-to-have but a matter of agency and autonomy.

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