Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
Please have a collection of stories regrading the recent events in Chemnitz, Germany.
The articles from different outlets allow to study not only the event and the controversy immigrants / nativism, but also the phenomenon “fake news” in the post-truth era.
A poll has uncovered the most irksome phrases colleagues write in emails. But what do they actually mean? Stuart Heritage @stuheritage M
Apoll by Adobe has uncovered the most annoying phrases to receive in a work email.
‘Not sure if you saw my last email’
‘Per my last email’
‘Per our conversation’
‘Any updates on this?’
‘Sorry for the double email’
‘Please advise’
‘As previously stated’
‘As discussed’
‘Reattaching for convenience’
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more on netiquette in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netiquette
breakdown of IoT functionality, from Deloitte. They give 5 general types of services that IoT “things” can do:
Examples of IoT in action
There are some pretty well-known IoT products that some of you already use, including:
How does IoT affect libraries?
Here are some ways libraries are already incorporating IoT technology into their libraries:
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more on IoT in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=internet+of+things
proposal for Arduino library counter: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/11/18/service-based-learning-library-counter/
eXtended reality (XR) technologies present opportunities to advance the higher education mission and prepare students for a new world of human/machine interaction. In this interactive session, we will explore what is being done today and what is possible in four key areas of XR: use, technology, content development, and gamification.
Outcomes:
*Identify best-of-class tools and methods available for the design and support of XR in higher ed
* Explain to campus stakeholders the potential of XR to support pedagogy, research, and student success
* Understand the areas of focus of our growing XR community of practice and how you can participate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_reality
augmented reality (AR), augmented virtuality (AV) and virtual reality (VR)
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more on gamification in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=gamification
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=augmented+reality+education
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mixed+reality
In this age of fake and misleading news being spread through social media, it is more important than ever to teach students how to view websites with a critical eye. Here are three good resources
The RADCAB website offers short explanations of each of the aspects of evaluation and why they are significant. The site also provides a rubric (link opens PDF) that you can download and print for your students to use to score the credibility of a website.
Website Evaluation Explained by Common Craft teaches viewers to think like an editor when reviewing the claims made in articles on websites.
http://factitious.augamestudio.com/#/
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more on fake news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news
Plasma vortex in a magnetic field
byu/aloofloofah inwoahdude
The startup’s founder has said that while Redcore is based on Google Chrome, it includes important independent innovations
China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone
byu/zorbix intechnology
According to San Jose State University researcher Ziming Lu, this is typical “screen-based reading behavior,” with more time spent browsing, scanning and skimming than in-depth reading. As reading experiences move online, experts have been exploring how reading from a screen may be changing our brains. Reading expert Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid, has voiced concerns that digital reading will negatively affect the brain’s ability to read deeply for sophisticated understanding, something that Nicholas Carr also explored in his book, The Shallows. Teachers are trying to steer students toward digital reading strategies that practice deep reading, and nine out of ten parents say that having their children read paper books is important to them.
Cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham said that digital devices aren’t changing the way kids read in terms of actual cognitive processes—putting together letters to make words, and words to make sentences. In fact, Willingham is quick to point out that in terms of “raw words,” kids are reading more now than they were a decade ago (thanks mostly to text messaging). But he does believe, as he writes in his book, The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads, that kids’ reading habits are changing. And it’s reasonable to guess that digital technology, in all its three-second-video and Snapchat glory, is changing those habits.
For many parents and teachers worried that spending so much time with video games and Snapchats will shred kids’ attention spans—the average 8-12-year-old spends about six hours a day in front of a screen, and teenagers spend more than nine — Willingham thinks they may be concerned about the wrong thing. He isn’t convinced that spending so many hours playing Super Smash Bros will shorten kids’ attention spans, making them unable to sustain the attention to read a book. He’s more concerned that Super Smash Bros has trained kids’ brains to crave experiences that are more like fast-paced video games.
instead to help kids distinguish between the easy pleasures of some digital media, and the more complex payoff that comes when reaching the end of the Harry Potter series. He recommends telling kids that you want them to experience both, part of a larger strategy to make reading a family value.
“It’s watermelon or chocolate for dessert.
According to Julie Coiro, a reading researcher at the University of Rhode Island, moving from digital to paper and back again is only a piece of the attention puzzle: the larger and more pressing issue is how reading online is taxing kids’ attention.
Each time a student reads online content, Coiro said, they are faced with almost limitless input and decisions, including images, video and multiple hyperlinks that lead to even more information.
Anna Egalite, assistant professor of leadership and policy at NC State. Previously, Anna taught elementary school and did a postdoc at Harvard. She’ll be writing about education-leadership research—what we know, where we have good intuitions, and where we’re still very much in the dark.
It’s back-to-school time and education reporters are highlighting stories about how school leaders are “leaning on data” to promote student learning, making administrative decisions that are “supported by a data-driven process,” and drawing on their experience in “data-driven instruction.”
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more on data use and ed leaders in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=data+ed+leaders