MacBook and Mac Mini
Apple’s new MacBook and Mac Mini could change PCs as we know them
As the insides of computers become more like iPhones, we can expect better battery life, thinner designs and even, maybe, a lower price tag.
Archive of ‘technology literacy’ category
online tools for education
Four teachers share their favorite online tools to use during this unusual year, including sites for educational games and others for collaborative work. #EWOpinion https://t.co/yihTiS100e
— Education Week (@educationweek) November 14, 2020
Wordwall
Padlet
PearDeck
FlipGrid
Google Slides,
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Chief Disinformation Officer
“Trying to debunk misinformation after it has spread is like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted. By pre-bunking, we aim to stop the spread of fake news in the first place,” said Dr Sander van der Linden, Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making lab and senior author of the new study.Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy: A short online game in which players are recruited as a “Chief Disinformation Officer” and use tactics like trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful town has shown to reduce susceptibility to political misinformation from r/science
Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy
The free-to-play Harmony Square is released to the public today, along with a study on its effectiveness published in the Harvard Misinformation Review
It has been created by University of Cambridge psychologists with support from the US Department of State’s Global Engagement Center and Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
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Vatican bots hackers
Vatican enlists bots to protect library from onslaught of hackers from r/technology
Vatican enlists bots to protect library from onslaught of hackers
The library has partnered with Darktrace, a company founded by Cambridge University mathematicians, which claims to be the first to develop an AI system for cybersecurity.
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FOLIO library platform
EBSCO Discovery Service and OpenAthens access management.
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JSON and Structured Data
Introduction to JSON and Structured Data
Dates: November 2nd through 29th, 2020
Instructor: Robert Chavez
Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
Price: $175
https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/161-introduction-json-structured-data/
JSON is a semi-structured data format for encoding data and is a popular language for data sharing and interchange – as such it is considered a good alternative to XML. This materials in this course will cover all the core JSON syntax and data structures as well as:
– structured data as a concept
– core data structuring approaches
– the differences between XML and JSON
– when to use XML, when to use JSON
JSON itself is the language of JSON Schema and JSON-LD. We will also study core JSON Schema, a language that allows annotation and validation of JSON documents, and have an introduction to JSON-LD. JSON-LD is covered in greater depth in a follow-up course, JSON-LD Fundamentals. Both courses are follow-ups to our Certificate in XML and RDF-Based Systems.
https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/171-json-ld-fundamentals/
https://libraryjuiceacademy.com/certificate/xml-and-rdf-based-systems/
Robert Chavez holds a PhD in Classical Studies from Indiana University. From 1994-1999 he worked in the Library Electronic Text Resource Service at Indiana University Bloomington as an electronic text specialist. From 1999-2007 Robert worked at Tufts University at the Perseus Project and the Digital Collections and Archives as a programmer, digital humanist, and institutional repository program manager. He currently works for the New England Journal of Medicine as Content Applications Architect.
Course Structure
This is an online class that is taught asynchronously, meaning that participants do the work on their own time as their schedules allow. The class does not meet together at any particular times, although the instructor may set up optional synchronous chat sessions. Instruction includes readings and assignments in one-week segments. Class participation is in an online forum environment.
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HaptX Exoskeleton
categories: AR, Digital literacy, educational technology, instructional technology, technology literacy, VR
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/haptx-researchers-build-full-body-exoskeleton-charlie-fink/
ForceBot is a four year project to develop an exoskeleton for commercial and enterprise applications using HaptX’s microfluidic touch feedback technology to simulate virtual objects. The NSF grant will be distributed between each company to contribute individual components to ForceBot, and then the resulting IP will be used for commercial products.
Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=%23fakenews
Google policy privacy
Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address.
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show
Recently unsealed court document found that investigators can request such data in reverse order by asking Google to disclose everyone who searched a keyword rather than for information on a known suspect.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=privacy
6G
South Korea will launch 6G trials in 2026 with 1TBps speeds and 1/10th latency of 5G from r/Futurology
https://www.broadcastprome.com/news/satellite/south-korea-plans-to-launch-6g-trials-in-2026/
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