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Rabbit Hole

If you are looking for interesting, technology-related podcasts content, take a look at Rabbit Hole. This is a new effort from Kevin Roose and colleagues at the New York Times. The first few episodes address the recommendation system from YouTube … Continue reading

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Exploring online spread

Indiana University data and media scientists are interested in the spread of misinformation and are making some of their tools available. The portal for these tools is called OsoMe (awesome). An additional source for some of this work is available … Continue reading

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Love them first

This powerful documentary from a Minneapolis television station follows the educators and students of a North Minneapolis elementary school as the educators struggle to care for and educate children growing up under difficult circumstances.

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Zoom declared safe or at least safer

Zoom, the video collaboration environment that had such a rapid rise to popularity, was abandoned by many over concerns for privacy and problems with unknown users adding inappropriate content (zoombombing). Although easy to use, these problems caused many educational institutions … Continue reading

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Big money and testing simple ideas

Because of the focus New York Governor Cuomo has received from his daily pandemic briefings, educators have paid more than the usual attention they might have to articles describing Cuomo’s comments on the need for a new model of education … Continue reading

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Diversify Social Media Commitments

I encourage people to participate in social media experiences other than Facebook and Twitter. I have a general issue with platforms that approach monopoly status as this gives these platforms too much power and limits innovation within a given sector … Continue reading

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