#digitalliteracy — Public Fediverse posts

We've done this before — computer, information, media, web, digital, data, algorithmic, now AI literacy. The bottle keeps changing. The questions underneath don't: who chooses, who benefits, what the system makes visible, who participates, what you need to understand before you can choose for yourself.

New post on when the bottle actually changes the wine, and when we're just teaching people where to click:

wiobyrne.com/the-bottle-keeps-changing/

#AILiteracy #DigitalLiteracy #EdTech #AI

True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡

On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️

RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)

#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm

Let us fly… | This campaign bridges science & digital literacy. Open-access iBOOKs make Arctic research accessible, empowering global minds. Support evidence-based learning & action.

> https://donate-to.ikfoundation.org/fundraising/ibook-spitsbergen-science-expeditions

#OpenScience #DigitalLiteracy #Arctic #Spitsbergen #Europe #Books #whydonate

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

Why do we trust chatbots and how can we use them more wisely? A psychologist explains
#Tech #AI #Chatbots #ChatGPT #Psychology #Misinformation #Truth #MediaLiteracy #Trust #Democracy #DigitalLiteracy #AIEthics #Search
https://the-14.com/why-do-we-trust-chatbots-and-how-can-we-use-them-more-wisely-a-psychologist-explains/

🎓 Back to school doesn’t have to mean back to subscriptions.
LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, Zotero, VSCodium and Linux give students powerful tools to learn, create and explore without being locked into proprietary ecosystems.
Digital literacy should be more than learning how to use one company’s products. It should include understanding and controlling our technology.
Put a little more open into education. 🇨🇦🐧
📷 Antoni Shkraba / Pexels
#OpenSource #Linux #FOSS #Education #DigitalLiteracy

The Conversation: 41% of surveyed Australian teens now get their news from AI: new research. “Since 2017, we have been tracking young people’s media engagement, to understand how they get their news. This time, we found some young people are bypassing traditional outlets, reducing their use of social media sources and getting their news from artificial intelligence (AI) summaries using […]

Add this to the UK #postOfficeScandal & the Dutch child benefits scandal. No one committed suicide or got jailed, but German education was disrupted for DECADES, because an undiagnosed computer error contradicted direct evidence more teachers were needed.

#AIEthics #AIAct #devOps #digitalLiteracy

From the technology community ...

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 […]

A neighbor of our founder's, in his 70s, kept falling for scam sites and "miracle" ads, so we built Credibility Meter, a free, open-source Chrome extension that flags urgency, fake authority, and sales tricks on any page.

Opt-in, 100% local, no accounts, GPLv3.
https://tinyurl.com/3dmb6zkm

Read the code here: https://tinyurl.com/2t39wyts

Firefox port coming.

Support our other products:
https://tinyurl.com/yzpzzt6j

#FOSS #Privacy #ScamAwareness #DigitalLiteracy

Older Australians losing independence as digital divide widens

Older Australians say they are struggling to maintain their independence as every…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Agedcare #boltonclarke #Computers #COTA #counciloftheageingaustralia #councilontheageingaustralia #DigitalDivide #digitalexclusion #digitalinclusion #digitalliteracy #digtalnavigators #elderly #elderlyaustralians #myagedcare #onlinebanking #PatriciaSparrow #Technology #TopNews #TopStories
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/868503/

Older Australians losing independence as digital divide widens

Older Australians say they are struggling to maintain their independence as every…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Agedcare #boltonclarke #Computers #COTA #counciloftheageingaustralia #councilontheageingaustralia #DigitalDivide #digitalexclusion #digitalinclusion #digitalliteracy #digtalnavigators #elderly #elderlyaustralians #myagedcare #onlinebanking #PatriciaSparrow #Technology #TopNews #TopStories
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/868503/

Offloading work tasks to AI comes with a cost – to our brains
#Technology #AI #Brain #CriticalThinking #AIAtWork #DigitalLiteracy #FutureOfWork #HumanIntelligence #WorkplaceAI #AIEthics #Cognition #Work
https://the-14.com/offloading-work-tasks-to-ai-comes-with-a-cost-to-our-brains/

The print edition of "Children and Adolescents in the Age of #GenerativeAI" by Isabell Baumann, Georg Mein & Johannes Pause is now available.

Commissioned by Luxembourg's Ministry of Education, this white paper analyses AI-related risks in young people's internet use, with six strategic recommendations including an assessment of BEE SECURE's #DigitalLiteracy work.

Digital edition free under CC BY-SA 4.0 (#OpenAccess).
https://doi.org/10.26298/1984-4142

#ChildOnlineSafety #Luxembourg

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

Using AI
You can use AI when you are more intelligent than AI. But when AI is more intelligent, the opposite can happen.

#AI #digitalliteracy #philosophy

Cornell Chronicle: Cornell expands AI Critical Literacy Program for incoming students. “After a successful pilot launch in the spring, Cornell’s AI Critical Literacy Program will be offered in the fall to all incoming students as well as other interested students, faculty members and staff. The expanded program will feature four modules – ‘What is Generative AI?’; ‘Ethical Questions […]

Science Literacy Project: Disinformation that spreads during heat waves. “Extreme weather typically brings a storm of disinformation with it; this [summer 2026] heat wave is no different.”

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.”

What are your favorite pieces of transformative journalism?

This one made me think of Nellie Bly's 'Ten Days in a Madhouse' - reincarnated as a comedic adventure to soften the blow of a hard truth about #ai

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#journalism #writers #writing #literature #criticalcommentary #investigativejouralism #oss #selfhost #ytreview #solarpunkpraxis #genZ #digitalliteracy #comedy #journalism

A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird

https://www.nateshivar.com/37465/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-for-why-the-world-feels-so-weird/

Manchmal ist der Feed wie ein schlecht sortierter Dachboden: viel Zeug, wenig davon braucht man wirklich.

Das Problem ist nur: Wenn derselbe Mist oft genug zwischen brauchbaren Dingen liegt, wirkt er irgendwann normal. Ich sortiere inzwischen härter aus. Nicht weil ich nur noch sehen will, was mir gefällt. Sondern weil ich unterscheiden möchte zwischen „unangenehm, aber wichtig“ und schlichtem Lärm.

Das ist ein Unterschied.

#Mastodon #Tech #MediaLiteracy #DigitalLiteracy #MentalHealth

As AI becomes more sophisticated, learning how to identify AI-generated content is becoming an essential skill. Monash University is partnering with a cybersecurity company to help prepare the next generation with the knowledge to navigate an AI-driven world. Watch the story below. #AI #Cybersecurity #DigitalLiteracy #Education #ArtificialIntelligence

🔍 Digital literacy isn't just knowing how to use tech, it's interpreting what it produces, recommends and conceals. Join "Reading the Digital, Reading the Message" and discover the DIGI-ME 5-lens reading framework 👉 https://digital-skills-jobs.europa.eu/en/latest/events/reading-digital-reading-message-digital-literacy-media-literacy-digi-me #DigitalLiteracy #DIGIME

🔍 Digital literacy isn't just knowing how to use tech, it's interpreting what it produces, recommends and conceals.

Join "Reading the Digital, Reading the Message" and discover the DIGI-ME 5-lens reading framework 👉
digital-skills-jobs.europa.e…

#DigitalLiteracy #DIGIME
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https://nitter.net/DigitalSkillsEU/status/2084928836567769578#m

The Conversation: How to do your own online health research like a scientist – a biostatistician’s step‑by‑step guide. “I am a biostatistician by training. In my work, I study how medical evidence is generated and interpreted. I have been on the other side of that process, trying to make sense of medical information that could affect my health or the health of my loved ones. Over time, […]

AI tools are useful only when people know how to evaluate them.

Join us and the Office of New York City Council Member Carmen De La Rosa for a free virtual AI 101 workshop on prompts, privacy, accuracy, and civic AI tools.

📅 Tuesday, August 4, at 12 pm ET
🔗 RSVP: https://www.beta.nyc/event/e260804

#AI #PublicInterestTech #DigitalLiteracy #NYC

So every website on the internet is saved on physical storage.

This physical storage is called servers.
These servers are far away from your house and only accessible through the internet.

Now let's get back to iCloud.

iCloud is space on Apple's servers, accessed over the internet. It's used for backups, syncing photos across devices, and storing files in iCloud Drive.

#Apple #iCloud #iPhone #technology #CloudComputing #TechExplained #TechTips #DigitalLiteracy #AppleTips

Vielleicht verlieren wir durch Technik nicht zuerst Fähigkeiten, sondern Geduld.

Wir lassen uns Texte zusammenfassen, bevor wir ihnen selbst begegnet sind. Das Ergebnis ist schneller da. Aber manchmal entsteht ein eigener Gedanke gerade dort, wo ein Text unbequem wird, abschweift oder uns kurz aufhält.

Wie viel Denken steckt eigentlich in den Minuten, die wir sparen?

#Mastodon #Tech #AI #DigitalLiteracy #HumanCentredTech

TechSpot: Meta is bragging about how its AI keeps people on Instagram, while facing lawsuits over addiction. “Social media addiction has been a subject of public debate for years, but time spent on apps like TikTok and Instagram keeps climbing. Meta has now confirmed it’s using AI to personalize the Instagram feed, and that shift is driving a sharp increase in the amount of time users spend on […]

The Conversation: Meta‑backed research finds exposure to ‘untrustworthy’ social media is rare. The fine print is less reassuring. “A new study published today in Science Advances offers the most rigorous answers yet. It comes from a collaboration between Meta and academic researchers who studied the 2020 United States election. It was run from inside the machine – on the live feeds of […]

On February 20, 2026, I presented a paper at the Future of Writing symposium 2026, whose main theme was “adaptability”. The symposium was organized by Mark Marino and Z.D. Dochterman and it was presented by The Dornsife Writing Program at the University of Southern California, the Institute on Ethics & Trust in Computing, the Viterbi Engineering in Society program, the Ahmanson Lab, the Electronic Literature Organization, and the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab.

I do not actually teach writing, but digital writing is the focus of my academic research and I teach digital literacy workshops (with the Socialini collective). These two experiences led me to present a phenomenological approach to teaching writing, a method that is in debt to C.I.R.C.E.‘s “hacker pedagogy” and their interface analysis, which I apply to writing interfaces. The title of the paper is The Daimon of the Interface: an (Alien) Phenomenological Approach to Writing Technology.

The overall goal of this approach is to help students develop a deep awareness of the interconnection and interdependence of writing and thinking, and of the influence that the tools we use have on our cognitive and writing processes.

Since my academic career is likely coming to its end soon, I thought it was better to publish it as a working paper on my Zenodo profile instead of going through the everlasting and exhausting process of developing it as it should be done, then submitting it to an academic journal and going through the full loop. I know this is a shortcut, but I also think that in the paper there could be some interesting ideas and the method I propose could be of some use to teachers. So in a spirit of openness and sharing, I prefer to put it out in the world. Of course, I’ll be more than happy to receive comments, critics and feedback: if you want, get in touch!

#TheNextInternet

An interconnected self-configuring, self-addressing, robust, redundant, local-first, store & forward, delay & disruption tolerant, transport layer agnostic network over lines & peers owned & maintained by individual & communities, providing #DigitalLiteracy, #DigitalAutonomy, #ForwardSecrecy, #PrivacyAndSecurity, #PermaComputing

Without any gatekeepers, clouds, administrations, authorities, permanent records, blockchains, or middlemen

#MalleableSoftware #rightToBeForgotten

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

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