Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
Someone on TikTok asked if I could recommend books about tech ethics and I have never been so hyped to create a piece of content in my life. https://t.co/0N4MsnOJs3 pic.twitter.com/61LCHOVyOX
— Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD (@cfiesler) December 8, 2020
Tech platforms used to focus on ways to create wildly different products to attract audiences. Today, they all have similar features, and instead differentiate themselves with their philosophies, values and use cases.
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more on SM in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media
https://mondediplo.com/2020/11/10huawei
Ren, a former engineer with the People’s Liberation Army who went into consumer electronics, played the patriotic card, cautioning Jiang that ‘switching equipment technology was related to national security, and that a nation that did not have its own switching equipment was like one that lacked its own military’ (1). A quarter of a century later, other countries, led by the US, have belatedly grasped the wisdom of Ren’s remarks; the technology in question today is 5G
The company operates networks in 170 countries and employs more than 194,000 people.
This summer it overtook Samsung as the world’s biggest seller of smartphones… boast some of the most advanced artificial intelligence capabilities on the market.
spending more than 10% of its annual profits on research and development. In 2019 it spent over $15bn — more than Apple and Microsoft — and the budget for 2020 is $20bn. (For comparison, the R&D spend of the entire German car industry in 2018 was roughly $30bn.)
Huawei and 5G are only a small part of a much larger geoeconomic and geopolitical struggle in which China is trying to gain the upper hand over the US.
Washington’s campaign against Chinese tech includes firms such as the state-owned ZTE, another important player in the 5G field, WeChat and TikTok and many other lesser-known companies. But Huawei is its main target.
Washington sees Huawei as an arch-example of China’s rogue behaviour (widely mistaken for meritocratic market success) — stealing intellectual property, bullying partners and undercutting competitors
The EU has failed to agree a common policy on 5G.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=huawei
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/680939699203398/
Looking for different ways for students to share their knowledge. I’ve done Jamboard, Google Slides, Discussion posts, padlet…I just want something different and am not able to come up with any great ideas here. Anyone come up with anything else fun or interesting? This is for an asynchronous course.
Jamboard, https://edu.google.com/products/jamboard/
Google Slides jambor
Padlet https://padlet.com/
Flipgrid
Canva
Adobe Spark
TikTok
Mural.co https://www.mural.co/
Miro https://miro.com/
Sketchnotes https://www.jetpens.com/blog/sketchnotes-a-guide-to-visual-note-taking/pt/892
Pear Deck https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=pear+deck
Near Pod https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=nearpod
EdPuzzle https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/11/01/digital-assessment-session/
*NEW* @ForbesTech Say goodbye to the @oculus brand, and hello to @FacebookHorizon @WalmartInc @microsoft @oracle @softbank might value each @tiktok_us over $100 Also more @apple deals and patents and @FortniteGame @EpicGames @VirBELA1 value triples https://t.co/hs9pRDwjd6
— Charlie Fink (@CharlieFink) August 28, 2020
https://www.oculus.com/facebook-horizon/
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=oculus
25 US Congress members urge President Donald Trump to follow India’s lead and ban TikTok from r/technology
25 US Congressmen and Congresswomen have urged President Donald Trump… In a letter to the US President, dated July 15, they also pointed out that India took the “extraordinary step” of banning several “Chinese affiliated mobile apps including TikTok due to national security concerns”.
India had recently banned 59 Chinese mobile applications including the widely-used social media platforms such as TikTok, WeChat, and Helo within view of the threat to the nation’s sovereignty and security.
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more on Tik Tok in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=tik+tok
Warning—Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users from r/technology
Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals The Scary Things He Learned, Advises People To Stay Away From It from r/technology
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=tik+tok
What Is Online Learning? – Stephen Downes https://t.co/oBW6wrkL4q pic.twitter.com/mgkkhnwWmk
— Ana Cristina Pratas (@AnaCristinaPrts) April 14, 2020
https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=70701
Online learning is planned, deliberate and thoughtful in the sense that online courses often take months or even years to develop, not days or weeks.
Online learning is far more than online courses and programs. It always has been. While inside the institution it has been difficult to imagine learning as anything other than courses and programs, outside the institution, over the last three or four decades, online learning has been something very different.
the wider internet to introduce educators to things like learning communities, blogs, social software, MOOCs, personal learning environments, and most recently, decentralized technology.
Online learning should be fast, fun, crazy, unplanned, and inspirational. It should be provided by people who are more like DJs than television producers. It should move and swim, be ad hoc and on the fly. I wish educators could get out of their classroom mindsets and actually go out and look at how the rest of the world is doing online learning. Watch a dance craze spread through TikTok, follow through-hikers on YouTube, organize a community in a Facebook group, discuss economic policy in Slack. All of that is online learning – and (resolutely) not the carefully planned courses that are over-engineered, over-produced, over-priced and over-wrought.
I quite agree with what Jim Groom said, that this is not “the time for wild experimentation.” I also recognize that a lot of what is happening today is an emergency response to an unprecedented situation. As Clint Lalonde says, “What is happening right now at many institutions as they are scrambling is grasping at life preservers trying to stay afloat
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2020/04/01/emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning/
TikTok says it doesn’t censor content, but a user was just locked out after a viral post criticizing China
TikTok says it doesn’t censor content, but a user was just locked out after a viral post criticizing China
by intechnology
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Nov. 28, 2019
A spokesman for the platform on Thursday blamed a “human moderation error” for the removal of a video by 17-year-old Feroza Aziz disguised as a makeup tutorial to avoid being censored.
Owned by the Beijing-based technology company ByteDance, TikTok is one of few Chinese apps that have gained popularity outside of China. TikTok has said that it does not apply Chinese censorship rules on the international version of its app.
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Although the TikTok was intended exclusively for students in the Clark County School District, it ended up going viral, in large part because it was shared on Twitter by social media producer and podcaster Klaudia Amenabar. As of publication, it has racked up more than 36,000 likes and 780 comments, and has prompted other CCSD students on TikTok to join Sullivan’s call to strike.
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