Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information. An essential part of online research is the ability to critically evaluate information. This includes the ability to assess its level of accuracy, reliability, and bias. In 2012, my colleagues and I assessed 770 seventh graders in two states to study these areas, and the results definitely got our attention.
Unfortunately, over 70 percent of the students’ responses suggested that: Middle school students are more concerned with content relevance than with credibility They rarely attend to source features such as author, venue, or publication type to evaluate reliability and author perspective When they do refer to source features in their explanations, their judgments are often vague, superficial, and lacking in reasoned justification Other studies highlight similar shortcomings of high school and college students in these areas (see, for example, a 2016 study from Stanford). Start of newsletter promotion. Subscribe now End of newsletter promotion.
Dimensions of Critical Evaluation Prompting. Choosing a Secure Password. By Bruce Schneier Boing BoingFebruary 25, 2014 As insecure as passwords generally are, they're not going away anytime soon. Every year you have more and more passwords to deal with, and every year they get easier and easier to break. You need a strategy. The best way to explain how to choose a good password is to explain how they're broken.
The general attack model is what's known as an offline password-guessing attack. In this scenario, the attacker gets a file of encrypted passwords from somewhere people want to authenticate to. There are commercial programs that do password cracking, sold primarily to police departments. The efficiency of password cracking depends on two largely independent things: power and efficiency. Power is simply computing power. Efficiency is the ability to guess passwords cleverly. A typical password consists of a root plus an appendage. Modern password crackers combine different words from their dictionaries: There's still one scheme that works.
Education Exchange. Posted on August 21, 2013 by Melissa Jones The Adobe Student Showcase videos profile creative students from across the United States. Each brief video introduces you to a bright, talented and inspiring student and deconstructs his or her creative process. This professional development workshop is designed to support you in using the Adobe Student Showcase videos in your classroom as teaching and learning tools.
By the end of this professional development workshop, you'll have created a classroom activity you can use to inspire your students and help them explore their own creative process. You'll accomplish this by working your way through a series of steps, divided into three sections: Illustrator Photoshop After Effects Lightroom.
Digital Portfolios. MaKey MaKey | A Creative, Unique Gift Idea for Everyone | Electronic Invention Kit - Buy Direct (Official Site) Five-Minute Film Festival: Teaching Digital Citizenship. "Digital citizenship" is an umbrella term that covers a whole host of important issues. Broadly, it's the guidelines for responsible, appropriate behavior when one is using technology.
But specifically, it can cover anything from "netiquette" to cyberbullying; technology access and the digital divide; online safety and privacy; copyright, plagiarism, and digital law, and more. In fact, some programs that teach digital citizenship have outlined no less than nine elements that intersect to inform a well-equipped digital citizen. It's an overwhelming array of skills to be taught and topics to explore. But while there is much talk about the importance of teaching digital citizenship in this information society, not many are sure what that really looks like.
What tools are out there for teaching it? And how in the world can teachers make time in an already overcrowded curriculum? Video Playlist: Teaching Digital Citizenship What is Digital Citizenship? Technology in Education.