#digitalliteracy — Public Fediverse posts

Education has repeatedly struggled with technologies that perform work students were previously expected to do unaided.

What if assessment placed more emphasis on whether students can verify, explain and defend their work rather than simply whether they produced it without assistance?

This article looks at the historical parallels.

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/08/the-ai-revolution-history-repeating.html

Hashtags:
#AI #Education #EdTech #AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #OpenSource #TTMO

Education has repeatedly struggled with technologies that perform work students were previously expected to do unaided.

What if assessment placed more emphasis on whether students can verify, explain and defend their work rather than simply whether they produced it without assistance?

This article looks at the historical parallels.

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/08/the-ai-revolution-history-repeating.html

Hashtags:
#AI #Education #EdTech #AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #OpenSource #TTMO

Education has repeatedly struggled with technologies that perform work students were previously expected to do unaided.

What if assessment placed more emphasis on whether students can verify, explain and defend their work rather than simply whether they produced it without assistance?

This article looks at the historical parallels.

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/08/the-ai-revolution-history-repeating.html

Hashtags:
#AI #Education #EdTech #AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #OpenSource #TTMO

Education has repeatedly struggled with technologies that perform work students were previously expected to do unaided.

What if assessment placed more emphasis on whether students can verify, explain and defend their work rather than simply whether they produced it without assistance?

This article looks at the historical parallels.

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/08/the-ai-revolution-history-repeating.html

Hashtags:
#AI #Education #EdTech #AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #OpenSource #TTMO

Education has repeatedly struggled with technologies that perform work students were previously expected to do unaided.

What if assessment placed more emphasis on whether students can verify, explain and defend their work rather than simply whether they produced it without assistance?

This article looks at the historical parallels.

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/08/the-ai-revolution-history-repeating.html

Hashtags:
#AI #Education #EdTech #AIinEducation #DigitalLiteracy #OpenSource #TTMO

NPR: We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda. They did surprisingly well. “Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns have expressed concern that some governments may poison AI-generated answers with false narratives. But an experiment NPR conducted with NewsGuard, a company that […]

Understanding WCAG 2.2 as ePub and PDF

https://doeken.org/wcag-ebook

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271442

#HackerNews #WCAG22 #ePub #PDF #Accessibility #DigitalLiteracy #WebStandards

NiemanLab: We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information. “Data journalists have sometimes wondered whether loading a story with data can be overwhelming rather than clarifying. We found that giving readers more information changes who comments, and how.”

Vanguard (Nigeria): Presidency trains over 100 Northern influencers to counter fake news. “The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Enlightenment, Mr Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, has trained over 100 social media influencers from across Northern Nigeria on the effective use of social media. Speaking during the training on Sunday in Kano, Abdulaziz said the […]

Union of Concerned Scientists: Your Anti-Disinformation Safety Chain for Danger Season. “We’re now officially in Danger Season 2026—the period between May and October when North America experiences its worst climate impacts—and we should expect disinformation to ramp up on social media and other platforms. It’s the time when maintaining what I call the ‘safety chain’ matters most.”

Porting SafeText and analyzing digital content with Apache Tika

Last year I wrote about pitfalls in modern journalism, especially with regards to receiving documents and information from whistleblowers without offering them adequate protection.

The tl;dr is that you, as a whistleblower, need to protect yourself; and you, as an editor or journalist, need to protect your whistleblowers.

Steganographic fingerprints might be one method adopted to detect someone leaking information. Steganographic characters replace common textual characters with unusual but hard to detect variants, e.g. they look the same to the human eye, or are actually invisible. Using a tool called SafeText by David Jacobson we can identify these hidden fingerprints in the content that you share.

I firmly believe we can find clues about what is important to preserve, or learn to preserve, when we analyse the content of the digital record and not just the (file) format of the digital record.

A file can contain many different features and these are all challenges to their future interpretation, and thus preservation.

I wanted to use SafeText in some of my other non-Python tooling and so I decided to port the code to Golang as a composable module and binary.

By coincidence at the time I started writing this I had also just written about revisiting tikalinkextract and so I thought I would write this small explanation about how you might combine Tika and SafeText to perform some content analysis of your own.

Who knows, maybe we will find a conspiracy. Maybe we’ll find secret codes in our own digital records. Maybe we’ll learn something new about our records…

Lets have a look at putting Tika and SafeText together and see where it goes.

I created a scientifically convincing image that is completely wrong.
It uses real physics.
Real terminology.
Real structure.
And it still fails reality.
Here’s how—and how to spot it yourself.

https://substack.com/profile/432224148-hybridmind42/note/c-246229299?r=75c2ac

#CriticalThinking #Misinformation #ScienceCommunication #AI #HybridMind42 #SystemsThinking #DigitalLiteracy #Epistemology #Truth

Share My Lesson is currently accepting proposals from educators who are interested in presenting a session at the 2026 SML Virtual Conference!

This year’s conference will feature three themed days and a streamlined schedule of 30 sessions total, creating a more focused and engaging experience for participants. Conference themes will be:

- Teaching in a Digital World: Technology, AI and digital literacy;
- The Whole Educator, The Whole Student: Wellness, SEL and mental health; and
- The Power of Core Subjects: Math, science, civics, literacy and the arts

Sessions are 55 minutes, held virtually, and will be available both live & later on demand.

Proposals are due Friday, January 9, 2026.

Pls share this invite with colleagues or organizations doing great work that you think would be a strong fit!

https://sharemylesson.com/2026-share-my-lesson-virtual-conference-request-proposals

#Education #Educators #Teachers #TeacherTraining #TeacherPD #ProfessionalDevelopment #TeacherEducation #AI #SEL #Math #STEM #Civics #Literacy #DigitalLiteracy

AI literacy: What it is, what it isn’t, who needs it and why it’s hard to define
#Tech #AI #AILiteracy #ArtificialIntelligence #Education #DigitalSkills #EthicalAI #AIForEveryone #FutureOfWork #TechnologyEducation #AIEthics #DigitalLiteracy #AIEducation
https://the-14.com/ai-literacy-what-it-is-what-it-isnt-who-needs-it-and-why-its-hard-to-define/

#Scotland - #Librarian cuts at #Glasgow schools will 'rob kids of opportunities' as #SNP Government urged to intervene

EXCLUSIVE: #Labour warned library cuts on Scotland's largest local authority risked worsening the country's 'shameful attainment gap'.

Chris McCall Deputy Political Editor, 02 Aug 2025

Excerpt: "Glasgow Life, which manages the library service for the council, is proposing to take 16 librarians out of the city's education system. The plans would see the school service headed up by a principal librarian along with three area-based librarians, while an 'assistant' would be placed in high schools.

"An online petition against the cuts and shared among parents has since been signed more than 1,300 times.

"Joy McLean said she was concerned about how a decline in #LibraryServices would impact her daughter and other pupils. '#Librarians are essential #educators who foster a love of #reading, support research and #DigitalLiteracy, and help students thrive #academically and personally,' she added."

Read more:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/librarian-cuts-glasgow-schools-rob-35659625

#LibrariesRule! #EducationCuts #ScotlandPol #LoveOfReading #BuildingCommunity #Literacy #SupportingResearch #CriticalThinkingSkills

Sanjay Dutt’s The Bhootnii races ahead collects ₹4.11 Cr despite limited screens

#TycoonWorld #India #DigitalIndia #FinancialInclusion #DigitalEconomy #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Bollywood #IndianCinema #Movies #BoxOffice #TheBhootnii #SanjayDutt #MouniRoy #PalakTiwari #BollywoodHorrorComedy #DigitalTransformationIndia #GovtInitiatives #Aadhaar #DBT #MobileBanking #DigitalLiteracy #TechIndia #MakeInIndia #StartUpIndia

https://tycoonworld.in/sanjay-dutts-the-bhootnii-races-ahead-collects-%e2%82%b94-11-cr-despite-limited-screens/

We're looking to minimise US economic dependence, right? Yet personally, in the UK, I'm still an oldish person mainly using a plastic Mastercard debit card. Is everyone else here really using digital QR payments instead??
#InstantPayments #Mastercard #QR #DigitalLiteracy