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Digital Services Act
Digital Services Act
Teaching with Wikipedia
categories: instructional technology, OER
https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/929782550985777/
I Want Journalists to Die Old
categories: academic library
‘I Want Journalists to Die Old’: Nobel Winner Muratov’s Acceptance Speech, in Quotes
— “There are two contradicting trends in Russia today. On the one hand, Russia’s president supports the erection of a monument to Sakharov’s 100th anniversary. On the other hand, Russia’s Prosecutor General demands the elimination of the international organization Memorial. … But Memorial was established by Sak
The Other Afghan Women
categories: academic library
The Other Afghan Women
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women
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Colleges Low Morale
categories: academic library
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-12-14-how-can-colleges-break-out-of-the-funk-of-low-morale
difference between low moral / demoralization and burnout
in regard of “tone deaf” admins, check also #ToxicPositivity
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2020/11/16/toxic-positivity/
drones
categories: educational technology, technology literacy
Microsoft and Samsung augmented reality project
categories: AR, educational technology
Microsoft and Samsung are collaborating on new augmented reality project
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-and-samsung-team-new-augmented-reality-project-says-report
All that is known is that the project is AR-related and may involve some sort of hardware Samsung will be producing (rather than Microsoft). Samsung’s investments in DigiLens, the company behind tech found in AR display devices, may further substantiate the idea that the former will be handling the physical gadgetry in its collaboration with Microsoft.
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More on augmented reality in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=Augmented+reality
public belief in universities
categories: announcement
Why has public belief in universities been haemorrhaging?
Nathan M Greenfield 20 November 2021
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20211118103250672
The red flag went up on page five, when Stephen M Gavazzi and E Gordon Gee wrote that their research was underwritten by a grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. Founded by oil man Charles Koch, the foundation is famous for its libertarian views and for supporting the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University in Virginia, which hosts corporate-backed ‘free market’ educational workshops for federal and state judges and attorneys general.
the Morrill Land Grant College Act
Both Gavazzi and Gee know that Republicans and others made the same complaint about university students in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Yet, as soon as they’d handed in their last essays replete with approving references to Karl Marx, Michel Foucault or Jacques Derrida, these cohorts applied en masse for jobs on Wall Street or later to the companies that grew wealthy during the dot-com boom.
access to Meta’s internal research
More than 300 scientists have told Mark Zuckerberg they want access to Meta’s internal research on child and teen mental health because it doesn’t meet scientific standards
The letter concludes by asking Meta to create an independent oversight trust that would monitor and study adolescent and child mental health.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri is due to testify before Congress about children’s safety on the platform Tuesday.
a Forrester survey of 4,602 Americans aged 12 to 17, published last month, found that 63% of respondents used TikTok on a weekly basis compared with 57% for Instagram. It also found 72% of respondents used YouTube weekly. It did not mention Facebook.