Six Strategies for Effective Learning Source: Downloadable Materials — The Learning Scientists
Author: Cathie
Astrophotography for beginners: How to shoot the night sky | Space
Astrophotography is an umbrella term covering different genres, including deep-sky, planetary, solar, lunar and landscape photography. For the purposes of this article, we will look at landscape astrophotography, which is the most accessible and affordable of these disciplines. Source: Astrophotography for beginners: How to shoot the night sky | Space
Aperture On Sight | Aperture
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange Source: Aperture On Sight | Aperture
Facebook Grew Marketplace to 1 Billion Users. Now Scammers Are Using It to Target People Around the World. — ProPublica
Facebook says it protects users through a mix of automated systems and human reviews. But a ProPublica investigation based on internal corporate documents, interviews and law enforcement records reveals how those safeguards fail to protect buyers and sellers from scam listings, fake accounts and violent crime. Source: Facebook Grew Marketplace to 1 Billion Users. Now […]
Judith Joy Ross’s Timeless and Empathic Portraits
When she was coming up, Ross entered a world dominated by the iconographic portraits of Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Diane Arbus, pictures often first published in magazines, where they had to leap off the page. Ross’s work, in a range of subtler tones, operates differently. Her contact prints are almost never bigger than the […]
The importance of stupidity in scientific research | Journal of Cell Science | The Company of Biologists
Even though this is about science and PhD students, I think it applies to wicked problems in general and undergraduate students. First, I don’t think students are made to understand how hard it is to do research. And how very, very hard it is to do important research. It’s a lot harder than taking even […]
Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election
The report, written in October 2019 and obtained by MIT Technology Review from a former Facebook employee not involved in researching it, found that after the 2016 election, Facebook failed to prioritize fundamental changes to how its platform promotes and distributes information. Source: Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 […]
OII | MISDOOM 2021
I need to check in on this conference for next year. After two successful editions, the international MISDOOM symposium on misinformation in online media returns for a 3rd edition, this time co-hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Universiteit Utrecht on 21-22 September 2021. Topics include health misinformation, hate speech, misinformation diffusion, news spreading behaviour and mitigation, […]
Ctrl-F: Helping make networks more resilient against misinformation can be as simple as two fingers » Nieman Journalism Lab
People have a limited amount of effort they’ll expend on verification, the lack of knowledge here may be as big a barrier as other cognitive biases. Why we aren’t vigorously addressing issues like this in order to build a more resilient information network (or even to just help students study efficiently!) is something I continue […]
Ctrl-F: Helping make networks more resilient against misinformation can be as simple as two fingers » Nieman Journalism Lab
Eh, I can’t drag out the suspense any longer. Barely anyone uses Ctrl-F or knows what it does. Source: Ctrl-F: Helping make networks more resilient against misinformation can be as simple as two fingers » Nieman Journalism Lab
