#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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Can your students tell the difference between fact, opinion, misinformation and AI-generated content? 🔍🤖

Join the News Literacy Project on July 21 from 11 AM–12 PM EDT and discover practical ways to teach news literacy across subjects. Learn how to help students evaluate sources, assess credibility, build healthy media habits and become informed participants in our democracy.

This free, live, online webinar lasts one hour and grants professional development credit (for US teachers).

Learn more & register now:

https://sharemylesson.com/webinars/misinformation-ai-where-do-we-start?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=Summer+of+Learning&utm_id=June+2026&utm_term=Journeys+in+Film&utm_content=link

#NoAI #Education #Teachers #Webinar #MediaLiteracy #DigitalLiteracy #ProfessionalDevelopment #Parenting #TeacherTraining #Homeschooling

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Poynter: As tech giants retreat, Africa’s fact-checkers are finding new ways to survive. “The platforms that once sponsored fact-checking projects and previous Africa Facts Summits, including Google and Meta, were nowhere to be seen, just as they were absent from IFCN’s GlobalFact conference in Rio last June. Still, 162 participants from 35 countries filled the hotel’s conference hall, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/19/276678/

ePic 2016: Jim Groom on How Domain of One’s Own could transform education

https://bava.tv/videos/watch/26158b34-a79d-4ae1-9c8c-72d4058ac4ca

Hallo erstmal! Mir geht's um #Digitalisierung in Kultureinrichtungen, #transformation #openGLAM #digitalLiteracy in #Museum, #Bibliothek, #Theater, #Soziokultur. Dazu gelegentlich #Fotogeschichte, #Typografie, #Bahnekdoten, Miszellen aus #Popkultur, Alltägliches aus #Stuttgart und #München.

Fan von allem was @digitalcourage vermittelt & ermöglicht, fühl' ich mich hier nun ganz gut aufgehoben und freue mich auf inspirierende Toots und konstruktiven Austausch. Danke @freiheit @chpietsch für Eure Arbeit! #nuudel