Category "Literacy"
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Film: "Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World"
When Werner Herzog makes a film about the internet, it can almost be expected to be a poetic journey rather than a cutting-edge report or a deeply opinionated perspective (even though, with his very special style to interrupt interviewees to make a point in his narrative, this does not mean…
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Bookmark: "Taking Control of Your Digital Identity"
This is great: while I see (university) teachers and course instructors elsewhere requiring students to join Facebook groups or the like, Howard Rheingold makes the participants in his “social media course” acquire a domain and server space for a self-hosted Wordpress instance as the…
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Themes from Datensummit 17: culture, responsibility, credibility, literacy, engagement
Time for a reflective wrap-up of last week’s “Datensummit”, the first national-level meetup on Open Data in Germany, co-hosted by the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany and the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. I was only able to attend the conference part…
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Bookmark: "Is Private Browsing Really Private?"
DuckDuckGo, the provider of a search engine that doesn’t track its users (see my earlier blog post), did a study about how users believe the “Private browsing” feature of their browser works: Despite Private Browsing being one of the most commonly known and used privacy features…
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Bookmark: "A lawyer rewrote Instagram's terms of service for kids"
There is a lot of interesting analysis and recommendation in the “Growing up digital” report from the UK’s Children’s Commissioner referenced in this article - and the simplified terms and conditions (that nobody ever reads) are only the most obvious of its gems - , but the…
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Reposting a Tweet by Teemu Leinonen
“A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills” by Mozilla; interesting model indeed! https://learning.mozilla.org/en-US/web-literacy
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