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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Dec 29, 2016
Detecting Fake News
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Dec 29, 2016
After the spate of fake news in circulation over the last
year or so numerous guides have been published to help you
spot fake news. Unfortunately, few of them are effective.
The reason for this is that they tend to focus on whether
or not the source is authoritative. But authorities lie.
Whether they're an old school newspaper, or just an old
school, these days they all have a vested interest. They
want you to believe them. So how do you cope? That's what
this article is about.
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A Genuine Science Of Learning
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There are four really good points in this quick overview of
the future of learning. Keith Devlin is optimistic overall,
saying we may be at the beginning of a genuine science of
learning, much as medicine was at the beginning of the 20th
century. This is not based on so-called neuroscience based
on MRI - "A good analogy would be trying to diagnose an
engine fault in a car by moving a thermometer over the
hood." No, what new technology offers the hope of improved
educational research - "Classroom studies invariably end up
as studies of the teacher as much as of the students, and
often measure the effect of the students’ home
environment rather than what goes on in the classroom." It
will allow us to dig deeper into real learning - "What is
missing is any insight into what is actually going on in
the student’s mind—something that can
be very different from what the evidence shows."
We need to know why a student comes up with right or wrong
answers - "part of what is going on is that many earlier
studies measured knowledge rather than thinking ability.
The learning gains found in the studies I am referring to
are not knowledge acquired or algorithmic procedures
mastered, rather high-level problem solving ability."
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The Little Ilustrated IT Security Guide
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This short guide (16 page PDF
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calmly discusses the key elements of IT security for the
average user. It's directed at staff and students of EPFL
specifically, so there are some references that might not
make sense to the general reader (such as the advice to use
the EPFL VPN to read email) but in the absence of anything
else I would not hesitate to distribute it.
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Finding the squishy middle (before fact-checking everything
drives you nuts)
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It's easy to say we should fact-check the internet (or at
least that part of it pirporting to be news and
information). Actually doing it is a lot harder. As Michael
Caulfield says, fact-checking is boring unrewarding work.
It's better shared with others. Enter annotation, as
provided by (say) hypothes.is Link- now
through the mechanism of annotation we can share our
fact-checking efforts. For example, here's an annotated
news article
Link//www.politico.com/story/2016/12/rick-perry-energy-232929.
Will this technology work where so many previous efforts at
annotation have failed?
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Second Life's creator is building a 'WordPress for social
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Virtual worlds and virtual reality are natural partners. So
there's no real surprise that Second Life is looking to
develop to support Oculus Rift and similar technologies.
But getting the mix right is difficult - you don't want
people to simply inhabit your environment, you want them to
invest in it, to build it themselves. Hence, the WordPress
analogy - what makes a blog worth reading isn't the
software it was written with, it's the content that is
written. But the other thing about WordPress is that each
person had his or her own blog. Via The Blog Herald
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