the affordability message is still the most effective one to communicate to legislators
I wonder if in the age of AI and information disorder if different messaging might gain traction. For example: messaging about how OER and OEP can lead to higher information literacies...
I thought it was bad growing up during the “just Google it” age, but as society always manages to outdo itself, the current “just use ChatGPT” mindset is so much worse. At least with Google, there was a semblance of effort: sifting through search results, evaluating sources, and piecing together information to paraphrase for your paper that was due in the next hour. Now, the expectation is instant answers with zero context, no critical thinking, and a growing dependency on AI to do the heavy lifting. It’s not just a shortcut—it’s an exit ramp off the highway of media literacy.
for - digital delay stats - Pew Research
summary - That digital decay and link rot are digital facts of life means that annotating information on the page that is relevant for you to preserve is a good practice. - It may appear redundant but if that page disappears in the future, you will be glad you have preserved it in a place accessible to you - in your annotations!
Scholars have experienced information overload for more than a century [Vickery, 1999] and the problem is just getting worse. Online access provides much better knowledge discovery and aggregation tools, but these tools struggle with the fragmentation of research communication caused by the rapid proliferation of increasingly specialized and overlapping journals, some with decreasing quality of reviewing [Schultz, 2011].
Fried-berg Judeo-Arabic Project, accessible at http://fjms.genizah.org. This projectmaintains a digital corpus of Judeo-Arabic texts that can be searched and an-alyzed.
The Friedberg Judeo-Arabic Project contains a large corpus of Judeo-Arabic text which can be manually searched to help improve translations of texts, but it might also be profitably mined using information theoretic and corpus linguistic methods to provide larger group textual translations and suggestions at a grander scale.
Mark: Cathy Marshall at Xerox PARC originally started speaking about information gardening. She developed an early tool that’s the inspiration for the Tinderbox map view, in which you would have boxes but no lines. It was a spatial hypertext system, a system for connecting things by placing them near each other rather than drawing a line between them. Very interesting abstract representational problem, but also it turned out to be tremendously useful.
Cathy Marshall was an early digital gardener!
range of digital literacy practices
This is a significant aspect of social annotation/Hypothesis. The low barrier for entry and the low-stakes nature of the work make it a great way to develop digilit, potentially, as people can engage with connecting and linking in their writing.
Everyone is overloaded with information thanks to the digital revolution, so—the PKM people tell us—we need new software and systems to survive and thrive.
Information overload goes back much further in history than the digital revolution. I might argue that information managers have tamed large portions of the beast already and we've forgotten many of the methods and as a result we're now either reinventing or rediscovering them as we transfer them to the digital space.
EU DisinfoLab. (2021, March 9). 🗣️In this week’s #IWD2021 update: We highlight initiatives promoting gender equality and women safeguarding our digital information ecosystem. We also acknowledging the rise in online GBV and the threat of gendered disinformation. ▶️https://disinfo.eu/outreach/our-newsletter/disinfo-update-09-03-2021 #WomeninOSINT [Tweet]. @DisinfoEU. https://twitter.com/DisinfoEU/status/1369198151639441411
Dame Adjin-Tettey, T. (2022). Combating fake news, disinformation, and misinformation: Experimental evidence for media literacy education. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 9(1), 2037229. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2022.2037229
Ning, C., Wu, H., & Liu, Y. (2021). Deliberation in health-related headlines. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e5bn7
assess the impact of the use of modern technologies on the quality of the education process
technologies
https://infohist.fas.harvard.edu/news/information-cultures-series-john-hopkins-university-press
This looks like a fascinating series and who could go wrong with Ann Blair, Anthony Grafton, and Earle Havens?
Also interesting to see what sorts of things they will find interesting at the cutting edge of all these disciplines.
faculty assume that students know how to, for example, take notes
are note-taking skills taught at all?
reading at the college level can be a real challenge for students from any discipline
teaching how to read is an ongoing project. Digital reading techniques need to be introduced, reinforced and practiced across courses.
THE ILLUSION OF COMMUNICATION
Interesting section - one sided and lacking in nuance, but not untrue.
Fitzgerald, R. M. (2020). WAKING TO NORMAL: Examining Archival Appraisal in Data-driven Society [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/2befk
Battiston, P., Kashyap, R., & Rotondi, V. (2020, May 11). Trust in science and experts during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/5tch8
Bode, L., & Vraga, E. (2020 May 7). Analysis | Americans are fighting coronavirus misinformation on social media. Washington Post.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/07/americans-are-fighting-coronavirus-misinformation-social-media/
Countries are using apps and data networks to keep tabs on the pandemic. (2020 March 26). The Economist. https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/03/26/countries-are-using-apps-and-data-networks-to-keep-tabs-on-the-pandemic?fsrc=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-economist-today&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=2020-05-07&utm_content=article-link-1
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Picturing Health. Films about coronavirus (COVID-19). picturinghealth.org/coronavirus-films/
Nanni, M., Andrienko, G., Boldrini, C., Bonchi, F., Cattuto, C., Chiaromonte, F., Comandé, G., Conti, M., Coté, M., Dignum, F., Dignum, V., Domingo-Ferrer, J., Giannotti, F., Guidotti, R., Helbing, D., Kertesz, J., Lehmann, S., Lepri, B., Lukowicz, P., … Vespignani, A. (2020). Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment. ArXiv:2004.05222 [Cs]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05222
The learner’s key skills shift away from certainty and towards decision making between various options.
from certainty to decision making - moving from simplicity to complexity, from knowing what to do to knowing ways to do things
Every student brings their own personal digital practices
We should accommodate what students bring to the class, and also use that diversity to expand everyone's capabilities.
Representation of Digital Intelligence
I wonder if the similarity to a pie chart hints a message that the components are all equal. The use of the color spectrum also says something about continuity and adjacency which may not be intended. But it looks nice.
Furthermore, and differentiating digital time from clock time, he suggests that a lack of adherence to chronological time is compounded by the fact that digital technologies connect with a flow of information that is al-ways and instantly available. He argues that continual change, which is bound up with web services such as social network sites, blogs and the news, is central to the experi-enced need for constant connectivity.
Q: How does this idea of time vs information flow affect the data harvested during a digital crowdwork process in humanitarian emergencies?
Q: How does this idea of time vs information flow manifest when the information flow is not chronological due to content throttling or algorithmic decisions on what content to deliver to a user?
Amazon.com : You're annotated out there. Gibson: Yeah it's sort of like there's this nebulous extended text.
A powerful media and information literacy project from UNESCO
This is more than traditional information literacy
I would say that this is information literacy. Traditionally, we have promoted a rather narrow view of IL, which is part of the problem.The ACRL Framework may be a step in the right direction.
Information Literacy
Beetham and Sharpe ‘pyramid model’ of digital literacy development model (2010)
like this model and the progression it represents. It might be interesting to compare it to imposter syndrome. Identity represents a level of confidence in one's abilities, confidence which can be independent of ability level.
many focus on skills rather than literacies.
To the "unskilled," the what and how may be a big hurdle. Skills seem prerequisite to literacy here.