Archive of ‘Library and information science’ category

12
Feb
2021

The Zoom Gaze

categories: Digital literacy, distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, educational technology, instructional technology, online learning

https://reallifemag.com/the-zoom-gaze/

In May 2020 the company removed the “unmute all” setting for hosts due to privacy concerns but now has brought it back as a nuanced “unmute with consent,” which allows a host to unmute an individual participant’s microphone at any time in any of the host’s meetings once given permission. But this framing of consent is problematic to say the least. Can you refuse if the host is your boss? What if they not only have authority over you but abusive intent?

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more on Zoom in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=zoom

12
Feb
2021

big tech break up

categories: Digital literacy, Facebook, information literacy, media literacy, social media

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/12/amazon-facebook-google-maryland-tax/

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more on social media break up in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media+break+up

11
Feb
2021

global upskilling and universities

categories: academic library, Digital literacy, information technology, instructional technology, technology literacy

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210129110449887

Upskilling for Shared Prosperity predicts that upskilling and reskilling could propel the transition to an economy where human labour is increasingly complemented and augmented – rather than replaced – by new technology, thus improving the overall quality of jobs.

Inertia in educational systems

The new Davos report points out that education systems – in particular secondary and tertiary education – must act and embrace this to play a central role in a comprehensive upskilling agenda.

Several higher education areas urgently need addressing:

• Curricula:
• Technology:
• Education providers:
• Qualifications, experiences and recognition:
• Connectivity:
• Credentialing:

Role of universities

“New arrangements – shorter, modular, part-time, with mixtures of in-person teaching and asynchronous self-directed learning – have to be developed. And to do that in a high-quality manner requires an enormous investment.”

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more on 4th industrial revolution in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=industrial+revolution

10
Feb
2021

Yoga and Qanon

categories: Digital literacy, media literacy

The yoga world is riddled with anti-vaxxers and QAnon believers

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/yoga-disinformation-qanon-conspiracy-wellness

Prominent pandemic deniers include a number of keen yoga practitioners, such as alternative health proponent Sayer Ji, who runs the website greenmedinfo.com, and his wife Kelly Brogan, who describes herself as a ‘holistic psychiatrist.’ More recently, the links between yoga and conspiracy theories came to public attention after the ‘QAnon shaman’ who stormed the Capitol on January 6, was revealed to be a yoga practitioner who is reportedly on an organic diet.

It’s hard to tell just how much conspiracy theories have infiltrated the wellness and yoga space. Researchers have tried to document the recent revival of ‘conspirituality’ – the intersection of yoga, spirituality and holistic health with conspiracy theories. The Conspirituality podcast, co-founded by cult survivor and yoga teacher Matthew Remski, lists figures in the wellness industry who have shared conspiracy theories and aims at exposing ‘faux-progressive wellness utopianism.’

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more on QAnon in this IMS blog
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/9107443388

09
Feb
2021

innovative online instructor

categories: Digital literacy, e-learning, educational technology, instructional technology

5 ways to be an innovative online instructor

BY DR. KATHARINE BENTHAM, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, RASMUSSEN UNIVERSITY
January 21st, 2021

https://www.ecampusnews.com/2021/01/21/5-ways-to-be-an-innovative-online-instructor/

1. Assess the level of student engagement
2. Leverage technology
3. Get student input
4. Encourage student involvement
5. Have discussions with your peers

09
Feb
2021

media: the enemy of the people

categories: media literacy

https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/interview-with-washington-post-editor-martin-baron-we-had-to-be-much-more-forthright-about-trump-a-2d5b7c59-7024-4138-91bc-0cc3b54d3794

DER SPIEGEL: Trump attacked the Post frequently during his presidency. For you personally, what was the most noteworthy moment with him?

Baron: It was the first time he used the phrase “enemy of the people”. It was shocking. It’s a phrase that has obviously been used in other contexts in the worst possible way …

DER SPIEGEL: … during the Third Reich, for example, Hitler’s regime used that term to persecute political enemies.

Baron: You’re making an analogy there to what ultimately transpired in Germany, but I’m not ready to go that far just yet. It was clear that he was going to go to the extreme to demonize us. He endeavored to portray us as garbage, as scoundrels. And he has done, I have to say, a very effective job of turning people against us. That was the objective, to get his followers to ignore whatever we wrote and to view whatever we wrote as a product of the opposition. He wanted to portray us as the opposition party. He has been largely successful in achieving that. He wouldn’t stop even if it posed the risk of violence against journalists, and it has resulted in violence and threats against journalists.

My note: the even more appropriate analogy would be actually with Stalin’s purges, where not only high-ranking Party’ officials, but regular people were condemned as “enemy of the people” and either death-sentenced or banished in the Gulag. #populism

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more on fake news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news
more on social media in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media

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