Digital literacy
QUIZ: How good are you at spotting fake news?
By Rachael Bradshaw on July 8, 2021 | Tagged with Digital literacy, fact checking, fake news, misinformation
Fake News Resources: To learn more about fact checking and spotting fake news, check out these Digital Tattoo resources:
Guest Post: Navigating COVID-19 Dashboards
By Rachael Bradshaw on June 29, 2021 | Tagged with COVID-19, digital citizenship, digital detox, Digital literacy, information overload
Navigating COVID-19 Dashboards by Kailey Fukushima When COVID-19 arrived in British Columbia, I sought safety in information seeking. In Spring 2020, I visited COVID-19 dashboards several times daily. I experienced near-overwhelming anxiety until I learned to navigate these technologies intentionally. Does my story sound familiar to you? If so, you are certainly not alone. COVID-19 […]
Guest Post: Using Your Online Democratic Voice
By Rachael Bradshaw on January 13, 2021 | Tagged with Digital literacy, fake news, netiquette, news, Politics, Social media
Using Your Online Democratic Voice By Alexander Howes Strengthening democracy requires us to engage in civil, informed online discourse. It is important to be conscientious about our democratic voice online. From choosing our news sources to engaging in online debate, it is important for us to be informed and engaged. This article provides strategies for […]
Guest Post: Fake News! Who Cares!
By Rachael Bradshaw on October 20, 2020 | Tagged with Digital literacy, fake news, media, Social media
Guest Post: Fake News! Who Cares! by Johnson Huang After a long day of staring at Zoom lectures and taking notes, you catch up on your social media sites like Twitter and Instagram for some semblance of relaxation, and you are bombarded by news story after news story. The Amazon forest is burning to the […]
How to Protect Your Digital Identity Based on Your Zodiac Sign
By samantha summers on July 11, 2019 | Tagged with astrology, cybersecurity, data, Data Collection, Digital identity, Digital literacy, Hacking, intellectual property, Network Smarts, privacy, safety, Social media, social_network, surveillance
We all can do more to protect ourselves online, but sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. To help you out, we’ve come up with simple steps each Zodiac sign can take to increase their online safety. Let us know if your sign’s advice speaks to you, and let us know how […]
Guest Blog Post: Bridging the Digital Divide along BC’s Connected Coast
By aaron dishy on June 25, 2018 | Tagged with access, connection, content creation, digital infrastructure, Digital literacy, digital policy, guest blog, internet, internet access
As those living in communities along British Columbia’s rugged coastline know quite well, the internet connection isn’t always great. Up and down speeds and long periods of disconnection have for decades been standard to coastal BC. However, there has finally been some good news: on March 13th 2018, it was announced that many of […]
Student Data on the LMS: Make Your Voice Heard
By bryan short on December 16, 2017 | Tagged with Digital identity, Digital literacy, google, privacy
Contribute! Draft Student Bill of Rights for Learning Data Share your thoughts on our Padlet The Learning Management System in Real Life Unknown Strangers in the Classroom Imagine yourself walking into a classroom. At the front of the room, your instructor is seated with six other people. These people have clipboards, stopwatches, and take extensive […]
When Seeing Isn’t Believing
By victoria mcauley on June 27, 2017 | Tagged with calling bullshit, data, digital citizen, Digital literacy, film, graphs, photographs, Social media, visual literacy, visualization
Textual literacy skills in the North American public have been on the rise since the dawn of the 20th century. More people than ever before are able to understand, and critically interpret written statements; however, fewer people are taught visual literacy skills. It is easy to believe the things that we see. The human mind […]
Does technology help or hurt your productivity?
By bryan short on September 22, 2016 | Tagged with Digital literacy, Learn, Participation, success
I found myself standing against the back wall of a huge lecture theatre in the Earth and Ocean Sciences Building on UBC’s Vancouver campus. The auditorium’s seats were filled with hundreds of teacher candidates—an audience that I would have imagined to be quite aware of issues of concentration and attention. Yet, the lecture theatre was filled […]
Apartment Rental Scam
By bryan short on August 3, 2016 | Tagged with cheating, Crap Detection, Digital literacy, Online Safety
My partner and I have been considering a move into a new rental apartment in Vancouver. The market is really competitive and we end up spending hours searching and not finding anything that meets our needs. So you can imagine our excitement when we finally discovered the perfect apartment at a great price. We emailed the person who had posted […]
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