Social Media news usage

https://bryanalexander.org/digital-literacy/using-social-media-for-news-the-latest-pew-update/
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media+news

DuckDuckGo celebrate

 

DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time from r/technology

https://www.zdnet.com/article/duckduckgo-surpasses-100-million-daily-search-queries-for-the-first-time/

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Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 62% in 2020 from r/technology

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/privacy-focused-search-engine-duckduckgo-grew-by-62-percent-in-2020/

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that builds its search index using its DuckDuckBot crawler, indexing WikiPedia, and through partners like Bing. The search engine does not use any data from Google.

What makes DuckDuckGo stand out is that they do not track your searches to build a user profile or share any personal or identifying data with third-party companies, including ad networks.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=duckduckgo

OER Learn to Learn Online

http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/oer/2021/01/18/learning-to-learn-online/

Learning to Learn Online was created by students to help ease the shift from a traditional classroom setting to an online environment. You will explore a total of six unique chapters that will help you successfully prepare for online learning.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=learn+to+learn

free fast broadband in UK

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/18/free-fast-broadband-service-launched-in-uk-to-support-home-schooling

Thousands of families struggling with home learning are being offered free high-speed broadband following a partnership between internet provider Hyperoptic and dozens of local authorities across the UK.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netneutrality

archiving presidential materials

My note: Both “The Guardian” and “Outside the Beltway” are left-leaning and these publications may be perceived as “political.”
The significance of preserving documents, however, is well presented in both publications.
The Guardian, however, present a well-done overview of the history and mechanics for preservation of documents, in this case, presidential.

Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/17/historians-having-to-tape-together-records-that-trump-tore-up

Trump Routinely Shreds Documents He’s Required to Preserve

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/outside-the-beltway/

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=archive

academia in the times of riots

Jeremi Suri, a professor of public affairs and history at the University of Texas at Austin, outlined that argument in an article published this week in the nonpartisan publication The Constitutionalist.

Our universities just in my own lifetime, since I was an undergrad in the 1990s, have become more professionalized, more corporate and more driven by money than ever before…  what’s happened is that has crowded out the discussions about civic responsibility, about serving the public… Most people running universities today spend very little time thinking about civic responsibility. They spend much more time thinking about budgets, thinking about the politics of their university and quite frankly, thinking about athletics…. our institutions infused a certain culture and they incentivize certain kinds of behavior.

 

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