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Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff is the author of a new book “The age of surveillance capitalism”. Dr. Zuboff explains how behavioral data collection starting with Google search became valuable as a way to predict our behavior. These data often collected without our … Continue reading
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FireFox Upgrade
The Firefox browser has been upgraded. Browsers seem to be competing by offering different ways to protect user privacy. The newest browser to undergo this transformation is Firefox. Firefox has a block everything mode (Strict) and on the desktop the … Continue reading
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Hypothes.is YouTube Channel
For those interesting in layering services, I just learned that Hypothes.is devotees have a YouTube Channel. There are multiple layering services and you may find a different one more suited to your instructional needs. Hypothes.is is free and has been … Continue reading
Weather vs. Climate
The temperatures in the midwest have plummeted to well south of -20. One of tweets I read this morning offered a lesson from NASA for children explaining that the very cold temperatures were not a sign that the dangers of … Continue reading
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Critical literacy must acknowledge the self
I think educators need to broaden their approach to developing student critical thinking skills as applied to online content. I was reminded of what has become my new perspective when I read Alice Keelor’s recent post complaining about the tendency … Continue reading
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More than STEM
Prioritizing STEM within K12 may seem a significant departure from past priorities. Has this happened before? I must have been part of the post Sputnik push. There was certainly a great awareness of the Russian accomplishment and great concern, but … Continue reading