Tag: digital_literacy

Reading 15 Sep 2018

A Short History of CRAAP – Mike nails the central weaknesses in formula procedures.
> So let’s keep that in mind as we consider what to do in the future: contrary to public belief we did teach students online information literacy. It’s just that we taught them methodologies that were developed to decide whether to purchase reference sets for libraries.

Add this: the acronym was created to *teach* how to consider sources; it provides something to practice with, not to use in practice. All such acronyms are training wheels. One an acronym is learned, it should be set aside and insight gained from practice used, not the acronym. – (teaching nonteaching digital_literacy )

North Korea best not … – Trump remixes Truman – (linguistics )
US federal department is censoring use of term ‘climate change’, emails reveal – Just leaving a trace of the accepted terms here.
> “These records reveal Trump’s active censorship of science in the name of his political agenda,” said Meg Townsend, open government attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. – (linguistics trump rhetoric semantics )
Weblogs: Learning in Public- Jill Walker Rettberg | ETC Press – Meh become me. – (#en3177 digital_literacy blogging )

To Read Well on Screens, Change Your Mindset | Culture Mulching – – (DH dgital_literacy reading_onscreen literacy_practices )
Annotated Bibliography on Digital Reading | University of California – Berkeley – "annotated bibliography of articles, studies, surveys, and blog posts centered in various ways on the question of how people engage with digital texts " Some are solid, some are potboiler complaints. Range is from pop press to academic work – (DH reading digital_literacy attention_economy )
Loco Parentis: Another Look at “Unwanted Advances” – The fall of university community and the influence of Title IX. – (none)
jwz: The Library of Babel – Imagined in diagrams and sketchup. Derive this, my psychogeographical friends. – (none)

Language Log » Metaphor of the month – A finer account of language use and Emerson's analysis for the linguist in each of us. Verily.
> But it's hard to put "informative Dirichlet priors" into a palatable mass-media sandwich. – (linguistics register )
The Loud, Empty Word That Defines President-Elect Trump – The Daily Beast – Trump's idiolect, register, memes, and Sapir-Whorf simplified.
> an administration that privileges the volume of the song more than its melody. Like the word itself, the 45th president is an indiscriminate megaphone, adding fire- and horsepower to whosoever holds his attention – (linguistics register memes )
3 tips for effectively using wikis for documentation – – (none)
Yes, Digital Literacy. But Which One? – Literacy isn't a skill. It's mastery of a knowledge domain. – (digital_literacy )

VoodooPad Workflow and Notes – why use a wiki and other practices – (wiki workflow knowledgemanagement )
How to Practice Safe Sexting, Without Resorting to Digital Abstinence – Not sure what to make of this. Etiquette? How to? It certainly takes the spontaneity out of the act, – (digital_literacy )

Punked – I get by by being quiet. Wikis and blogs not as an alternative to corporate LMS, but LMS as would-be wikis and blogs. – (edupunk de )
Writing for Interaction, Part 2 | DMLcentral – – (digital_literacy notetaking )