Digital Forensics and News Literacy Education
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more on fake news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news
Category: Library and information science
twitter hashtags for education
Library FYE ROI and HIP
categories: academic library, information literacy
Emerging Library Trends in FYE
From FYE to ROI to HIP, librarians are seeing new acronyms emerge in their campus administrations’ initiatives. How can today’s academic libraries position themselves to improve student success and retention, using high-impact practices (HIPs) to demonstrate a return-on-investment (ROI)? Many libraries struggle to define and implement their services in a way that meets these shifting expectations.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 2:00 PM Eastern 1:00 PM Central12:00 PM Mountain 11:00 AM Pacific
To register: https://goo.gl/EhzBRi
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more on ROI in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=return+on+investment
PurposeGames
Purpose Games is a free service for creating and or playing simple educational games. The service currently gives users the ability to create seven types of games. Those game types are image quizzes, text quizzes, matching games, fill-in-the-blank games, multiple choice games, shape games, and slide games.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/05/purpose-games-create-and-play.html
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more on games in education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=gaming
cryptocurrency miners
categories: Digital literacy, information technology
Cryptocurrency Miners Make Big Promises In Small Towns
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/609790069/cryptocurrency-miners-make-big-promises-in-small-towns
According to the Digiconomist blog that follows cryptocurrencies, all the Bitcoin mining computers worldwide consume more power collectively than the entire nation of Czech Republic.
When the value of a traded Bitcoin soared to almost $20,000 late last year, a Bitcoin mining rush hit lots of places with cheap power, from Louisiana to Washington State.
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https://news.bitcoin.com/georgia-has-become-eurasias-cryptocurrency-mining-epicenter/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2018/04/23/bitcoin-georgia/
blockchain fixes
categories: Digital literacy, information technology
187 Things the Blockchain Is Supposed to Fix
https://www-wired-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.wired.com/story/187-things-the-blockchain-is-supposed-to-fix/amp Blockchains, which use advanced cryptography to store information across networks of computers, could eliminate the need for trusted third parties, like banks, in transactions, legal agreements, and other contracts. The most ardent blockchain-heads believe it has the power to reshape the global financial system, and possibly even the internet as we know it. Now, as the technology expands from a fringe hacker toy to legitimate business applications, opportunists have flooded the field. Some of the seekers are mercenaries pitching shady or fraudulent tokens, others are businesses looking to cash in on a hot trend, and still others are true believers in the revolutionary and disruptive powers of distributed networks. Mentions of blockchains and digital currencies on corporate earnings calls doubled in 2017 over the year prior, according to Fortune. Last week at Consensus, the country’s largest blockchain conference, 100 sponsors, including top corporate consulting firms and law firms, hawked their wares. Here is a noncomprehensive list of the ways blockchain promoters say they will change the world. They run the spectrum from industry-specific (a blockchain project designed to increase blockchain adoption) to global ambitions (fixing the global supply chain’s apparent $9 trillion cash flow issue).Things Blockchain Technology Will Fix
- Bots with nefarious intent
- Skynet
- People not taking their medicine
- Device storage that could be used for bitcoin mining
- Insurance bureaucracy
- Electronic health record accessibility
- Health record storage security
- Health record portability
- Marine insurance risk
- Cancer
- Earning money on personal data
- Pensions
- The burden of car ownership
- Inability to buy anything with cryptocurrency
- Better marketplaces for nautical shipping services
- Better ways to advertise to your friends
- Better ways to trade forex with your friends
- Ownership shares in ancient sunken treasures
- Poverty
- Complying with Know Your Customer laws
- Complying with Anti-Money-Laundering laws
- Complying with securities laws in token sales
- Censorship
- A use for QR codes
- Rewards for buying alcohol by subscription
- Tracing water supplies
- Dearth of emergency responders
- High cost of medical information
- Improved digital identity authentication
- Managing real estate workflow
- International real estate purchases
- Physical branches for crypto banking
- Physical branches for crypto exchanges
- Private equity
- Venture capital
- AIDS, also online sales of classic Japanese domestic cars
- Efficiency and transparency at nonprofits
- Incorporating local preferences in decentralized banking options
- Boosting sales for local businesses
- A digital-only investment bank
- Containers to transport sensitive pharmaceuticals and food
- Protecting consumer information on mobile
- Helping mobile phone users monetize their data
- Not enough interconnection in the world
- Complexity and risk in the crypto market
- Expensive AI research
- Counterfeit goods
- Connecting “innovation players” and “knowledge holders”
- Movie industry’s slow and opaque accounting practices
- Global supply chain’s $9 trillion cash flow issue
- Trust in the global supply chain
- Economic crisis
- Cash flow problems at small and medium-sized businesses
- Improving the use of data in the transportation and logistics industries
- Poverty among African farmers
- Transparency in the food supply chain
- Ad fraud
- Fake news
- False news
- Settling payments faster
- Speeding transactions
- The unbanked
- The underbanked
- The bidding process in art and collectibles markets
- Assessing the value of collectibles
- Diamond industry’s high banking and forex fees
- The illicit diamond trade
- Availability of digital games
- Currency for eSports
- Currency for eSports betting
- Currency for sports betting
- Storing scholarly articles
- Health insurance providers billing processes
- Currency for healthcare providers
- Shortage of workers with advanced tech skills
- Lack of diversity in tech
- Elder care
- Rights management for photographers
- Content rights management
- Simplifying the logo copyrighting process
- Ticketing industry’s “prevalent issues”
- Crowdsourcing for legal dispute resolution
- Securing financial contracts
- Paper
- Automation
- Control of personal data
- Control of personal credit data
- No way to spend crypto
- Advertising for extended reality environments
- Human suffering
- Security for luxury watches
- Authenticity in cannabis sales
- Crypto rewards for cannabis-focused social media site
- Crypto payments for rating cryptoassets
- Crypto payments for taking surveys, watching videos and clicking links
- Crypto rewards for video game skills
- Crypto rewards for time spent playing video games
- Buying, selling and trading your social media friends
- Crypto rewards for social media sharing
- Free mobile data for watching ads
- Crypto rewards for watching entertainment content
- Gold-backed cryptocurrency
- Crypto-backed gold
- Metals-backed cryptocurrency
- Precious metals-based cryptocurrency
- “Tokenizing” real world items
- Nashville apartment buildings
- Monaco real estate
- Financial infrastructure for trading within video games
- Checking ID for purchases like alcohol
- “Uber for alcohol” on blockchain
- Inefficiencies in cargo delivery
- Branded tokens for merchants to reward customers
- Fraud and corruption among non-profits
- Better transparency at non-profits
- Better transparency around impact investing
- Bitcoin mining uses too much energy
- Home appliances mining for bitcoin while not in use
- Bitcoin mining using hydropower
- Large corporations’ carbon footprints
- “Decarbonizing” electricity grids
- Climate change
- Trust in governments
- Trust in corporations
- Trust in social networks
- Trust in media
- Universal billing system for travel industry
- Decentralized Uber and Lyft
- Online gambling not fair
- Online gambling sites take commission
- Helping retailers hurt by Amazon
- Online retail fraud
- Paying for things with your face
- Streamlining interactions among shoppers, retailers and brands
- Linking content across computers, tablets and phones
- Ranking apps by their value
- Aligning creativity and recognition for content creators
- Improving payments for artists on Spotify and Pandora
- Online piracy
- Improving the technology of the Russian gas industry
- A blockchain equivalent of Amazon, Groupon and Craigslist
- Too many non-value-added costs
- Unregulated prison economies
- Standardizing the value of advertisements
- Advertising not transparent enough
- Old real estate practices
- Free public information from silos
- Speeding the rendering of animated movies
- Selling items for crypto instead of regular money
- Borders
- Man-in-the-middle hacks
- Security sacrifices that come with innovation
- Scams, fraud and counterfeits
- Tools to build decentralized apps
- Blockchain infrastructure
- Removing barriers separating blockchains
- Safety in buying and selling blockchain tokens
- Improving privacy in online file storage
- ICO projects could benefit from the “wisdom of the crowd”
- Improving privacy of blockchain
- Decentralized database for decentralized technologies
- Improving trust and confidence in blockchain system
- More cohesive user experiences across blockchain and the cloud
- Democratizing gold trading
- Giving investors more control of their assets
- Simplifying the cryptocurrency transaction process
- Trading indexes as tokens
- Improving crypto safekeeping solutions
- Simplifying ICO investment, trading and cryptocurrency
- Improving institutional-grade crypto asset management
- “Painstakingly slow” manual crypto wallet process
- More open global markets
- Easier way to invest in real estate
- Easier way to invest in Swiss real estate
- Easier way to combine smart contracts with crowdfunded home loans
- Easier way to borrow against crypto holdings
- Faster porn industry payment options
- Lower porn industry payment fees
- Identifying and verifying users in online dating
- Improving traditional banking services for crypto world
- Cryptocurrency based on Game Theory, IBM’s Watson, and other theories
- Better social network + blockchain + AI + human touch
- Improving content streaming on the blockchain
- Supply chain transparency
- Increasing public sector trust of cryptocurrencies
- Education around blockchain technology
- Blockchain not mainstream enough
more on blockchain in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=blockchain
What is GDPR
What is GDPR? The huge European security regulation takes effect this week
Gene Marks Special to the Washington Post
The European Union‘s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, goes into effect on May 25
The objective of the regulation, which passed in 2016, is to simplify and consolidate rules that companies need to follow in order to protect their data and to return control to EU citizens and residents over their personal information.
Individuals in the EU will have the right to access or request that companies erase or migrate their data elsewhere. When asked, companies must prove to authorities that they have satisfactory policies and procedures in place to protect their data, or they will face huge fines. How huge? If your company’s not compliant, the fines could be as large as 20 million Euros (about $24 million) or four percent of your annual global revenue, whichever is higher.
“A U.S. tourist who visits Germany for one day and returns to the U.S. has rights under the law if that person used [a service like] Facebook while on the trip,” Alex Stern, an attorney wrote on his firm’s blog.
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Mr GDPR : Interview with Giovanni Buttarelli
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/mr-gdpr-interview-giovanni-buttarelli
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More on the European Privacy Law in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=gdpr
myths from countries
categories: media literacy
5 myths from around the world
http://blog.ed.ted.com/2018/05/30/5-myths-from-around-the-world/
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more on history on this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=history
Google Expeditions AR
Google Expeditions Updated With New Augmented Reality Content
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/05/google-expeditions-updated-with-new.html
Last summer Google added the option for students to explore the VR expeditions on their own.
Like any augmented reality app, the new AR content in Google Expeditions lets students view and manipulate digital content in a physical world context. The new AR content can be used as components in science, math, geography, history, and art lessons. Some examples of the more than 100 AR tours that you’ll now find in the app include landforms, the skeletal system, dinosaurs, ancient Egypt, the brain, and the Space Race.
To use the AR content available through Google Expeditions you will need to print marker or trigger sheets that students scan with their phones or tablets. Once scanned the AR imagery appears on the screen. (You can actually preview some of the imagery without scanning a marker, but the imagery will not be interactive or 3D). Students don’t need to look through a Cardboard viewer in order to see the AR imagery.
You can get the Google Expeditions Android app here and the iOS version here.
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more on GOogle Expeditions in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=google+expeditions
transform education via digital tools
Digital tools can transform, not just replicate, the teaching and learning experience
Commentary: The SAMR and TPACK models of technology implementation can help schools as they transition to using more digital tools.
By EdScoop Staff MAY 8, 2018 2:37 PM
In a recent edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, library department chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut, reviewed these models and discussed apps that can take teaching, learning and reading to the next level.
The SAMR model determines the level of technology integration of a tool: substitution, which doesn’t add value; augmentation, which adds a few features with only a little improvement; modification, which redesigns some structures; and redefinition, which allows the creation of new tasks and is the ultimate learning goal. Transformation in how educators are teaching and how students are understanding content happens in the modification and redefinition parts of the model.
MackinVIA’s Classroom allows educators to create a collection of digital content for students; build assignment around it; and share the collection, or an individual book, with the classroom. Students can also highlight text, make annotations, and save these to Google Drive.
Emerging Tech for Schools and Libraries is a free professional learning community where school librarians, teachers, and administrators can explore all the ways to integrate technology and 21st century learning into school library programs.
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more on the SAMR model in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=samr