Information has never been created or available in such abundance in human history. According to Forbes, “Over the last two years alone 90 percent of the data in the world was generated.” It’s almost impossible to comprehend. With such abundance there will inevitably information presented along different ranges of accuracy and truthiness. Thank you, Stephen …
Hello everyone! I have recently moved to BC from Ottawa, Ontario. I am looking forward to this new adventure and exploring everything that this beautiful province has to offer as well as developing myself in the MA of Leadership! Currently, I am working for an interior design company in south Surrey. Although I have zero …
In the context of the available standard digital tools within the “brick and mortar” business world, I would consider myself to be a respectful, conscientious and digitally literate participant when communicating my ideas and thoughts with others. However, in light of the rapid proliferation of social media engines, I sense that the basic digital platforms …
Mike’s guide is extremely helpful as a resource when it comes to fact checking online. I knew about Snopes, Politifact and Factcheck.org, but the other fact checking organizations were all new to me. I think the 4 moves that Mike… Continue Reading →
I think I have always known that Google has “biases”, but I never thought about it much in practice. I think these biases can be based on browser history, country searched within, culturally understood gender roles, understanding in a culture… Continue Reading →
My experience narrating/modifying my personal WordPress site was analogous to piloting a boat with the throttle engaged at full speed, yet struggling to achieve the desirable efficiency up on a plane. Once I achieved a better level of navigational understanding, the bow trimmed up and the boat began planing nicely. As it relates to comprehension, …
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your posts in response to this week’s activities. It seems that hypothes.is is a tool that has resonated with at least one of you, and for good reason! There are some significant advantages to having students annotate in situ on the web. There are, as you might imagine, people who […]
I have found that life brings us some interesting seasons whether we are ready or not. In this case, I have chosen to be challenged by something new and so I had better be ready. The paradigm of adventure has… Continue Reading →
After stumbling through the hypothes.is user name sign up sequence, mistakenly using a pseudonym (sultanofsurrey), rather than my real name, it came as no surprise that this manifesto for “teaching online” hails from the United Kingdom. Like the University of Edinburgh, the University of Liverpool has also been encouraging and delivering a platform to support …
Social media and technological abundance have done so much to change the world and it is likely that we are only beginning to learn of the impact these changes are having on society and culture. Media exposure in the past would be the result of a press release, a press conference, some significant event worthy …