This also means that Microsoft’s vision of the future is a world less focused on search, and more focused on answers. Source: Moving From Search to Answers With Bing and ChatGPT
Category: Information Literacy
It’s Not Too Late to Replace Toxic Tech With Humane Technology
Each of the paradigms of thinking in the tech industry that got us where we are should be overhauled by a human-centered focus. Rather than shrugging off the harms of technology by asserting that there are always costs and benefits, we should focus on minimizing harmful externalities. Rather than giving users what they want, we […]
It’s Not Too Late to Replace Toxic Tech With Humane Technology
“Technology has been undermining humanity’s capacity for wisdom,” Harris said. “Not just individually, but our collective ability to operate with the wisdom that we need.” Source: It’s Not Too Late to Replace Toxic Tech With Humane Technology
Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies – Scientific American
The idea is to teach kids how to evaluate and think critically about the messages they receive and to recognize falsehoods masquerading as truth. Source: Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies – Scientific American
Principled Uncertainty: Why Learning to Ask Good Questions Matters More than Finding Answers | PIL Provocation Series
What can we do as educators to encourage the ethical practice of curiosity, not just for times of uncertainty but as an everyday habit? What are we doing that inhibits curiosity? How can we pair curiosity with robust ethical practices that lead to creating, evaluating, and sharing information with integrity? And, in an already deeply […]
Principled Uncertainty: Why Learning to Ask Good Questions Matters More than Finding Answers | PIL Provocation Series
While such high levels of anxious uncertainty are rarely experienced by entire populations simultaneously, this moment highlights a critical need: Coping with our information landscape requires that we are comfortable with what we cannot know for sure, able to approach uncertainty with curiosity, and have a toolkit of ethical practices for exploration. Source: Principled Uncertainty: […]
Principled Uncertainty: Why Learning to Ask Good Questions Matters More than Finding Answers | PIL Provocation Series
A large majority of recent graduates from top U.S. universities and colleges reported that they felt that college failed to prepare them to ask questions of their own. Source: Principled Uncertainty: Why Learning to Ask Good Questions Matters More than Finding Answers | PIL Provocation Series
Why Can’t We Agree On What’s True? | Dr. Ian O’Byrne
Digital platforms and ubiquitous access to these spaces have ushered in a new public mindset that ends in a refusal to accept any mainstream or official account of the world. Source: Why Can’t We Agree On What’s True? | Dr. Ian O’Byrne
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
False beliefs can be useful in a social sense even if they are not useful in a factual sense. For lack of a better phrase, we might call this approach “factually false, but socially accurate.” When we have to choose between the two, people often select friends and family over facts. Source: Why Facts Don’t […]
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
We don’t always believe things because they are correct. Sometimes we believe things because they make us look good to the people we care about. Source: Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
