Classrooms should not be a free-for-all TikTok fest. But we need to support children to learn how to concentrate and function in a digitally-saturated world.
Some finds toys for toddlers based on digital devices a bit confronting. But really they’re just updated versions of traditional toys for make-believe play such as doctor and tradie tool sets.
Before leaning to code, children must learn spatial orientation, how to communicate and how to solve problems. These resources and games help teach the foundational knowledge needed for coding.
You are a key player in efforts to curb misinformation online.
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Teaching children digital literacy skills is essential to help them learn how to navigate and respond to misinformation. It also helps them grow into adults who can participate in digital democracy.
Digital illiteracy contributes to youth unemployment.
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The high cost of data and inadequate digital skills prevent young people from accessing job opportunities.
Technology offers youth new tools – but what such tools can help young people achieve depends on what they already know and larger contexts.
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Society needs to spend as much time considering youth options for creating as we we do considering what can happen with digital learning, finds a study in Hamilton, Canada and Glasgow, Scotland.
What lecturers and students can do in the absence of the bricks-and-mortar lecturing experience.
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We have transitioned from a literate culture to one that values speed, immediacy and the decoding of small grabs of words in search for information. But old and new ways of reading can co-exist.
Facebook announced Jan. 6 it will remove videos edited to mislead in ways that ‘aren’t apparent to an average person,’ and are the product of artificial intelligence or machine learning. Here, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a hearing at the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 23, 2019.
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The abilities to detect and analyze deepfake videos is of the utmost urgency. Deepfakes are a serious threat to people’s security and our democratic institutions.
Today, and into the future, consulting archival documents increasingly means reading them on a screen.
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As our societies lose paper trails and increasingly rely on digital information, historians, and their grasps of context, will become more important than ever.
If you know how photo editing works, you might have a leg up at spotting fakes.
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People fall for fake photos regardless of whether they seem to come from Facebook or The New York Times. What actually helps?
Media critic and educator Neil Postman’s 1985 book ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ warned of the dangers when all media is entertainment, especially when people lack critical media literacy skills.
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The role of the school library has evolved. Today’s school library goes beyond providing books. It must include teaching children digital literacy and how to critically evaluate information online.
Technology, when used right, can enhance learning for students.
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