The newspaper pointed out that the search "j-e-w-s a-r-e" suggested, among others, the autocomplete phrase "are jews evil." (The same final word was suggested for the search "a-r-e w-o-m-e-n." The letters "a-r-e m-u-s-l-i-m-s" suggested the phrase "are muslims bad.")
this is absolutely fascinating- i mean even if this isnt what you were going to search in the first place it has to have an effect on you at least subconsciously if not more
'Every bit of motivation came from things he saw on the internet.
makes you want to really really think twice about some of the things that we are reading on the internet everyday....
It’s easy to tell when facts are accurate; it’s nearly impossible to know when advice is.
google is really good at matching texts to the questions asked but think about how nice it would be if google could also not just give us texts with our key words in it but ones that were also reliable? that would be a great world and papers would be nice and easy to write
For an increasing number of searches, Google’s program will attempt to highlight and excerpt the best answer to your query, without you even needing to click on a link.
I have often found myself reading these little blurbs and taking them as gospel- it is sort of a shame how we have so information but many of us (me included sometimes) are too lazy to even click the link to figure out if we have it right
You don’t need to write an essay. And most any student (or teacher!) can learn the techniques. Think of it as information hygiene, the metaphorical handwashing you engage in to prevent the spread of misinformation.
I think this is great to make something that seems so large and unapproachable as fact checking is so few steps! for the people who like to share things on social media this is a really great way to make sure you aren't part of the propagation of fake news
Check the date.
I fall into this one all of the time- you think you have found a juicy new piece of news but it is actually from years ago
Many times these bogus stories will cite official — or official-sounding — sources, but once you look into it, the source doesn’t back up the claim
this one is interesting because I have really done all the other ones to ensure a source is credible but I do not frequently click on linked articles
If a provocative headline drew your attention, read a little further before you decide to pass along the shocking information.
I am one of the worst about click bait! Often the headlines catch you but then the story isnt what yo thought it would be or it takes so long to read because you have to click through ads that you never finish it.
hat were clear tip-offs that a chain email wasn’t legitimate. Among them: an anonymous author; excessive exclamation points, capital letters and misspellings; entreaties that “This is NOT a hoax!”; and links to sourcing that does not support or completely contradicts the claims being made
To me this seems fairly obvious but I guess that since we have come a lot further since 2008
A lot of these viral claims aren’t “news” at all, but fiction, satire and efforts to fool readers into thinking they’re for real.
I fall into this all the time- things that are not true get sent to into group messages from twitter and it is the only information you see at all on that specific event and are left confused about its validity
The record comes up. This guy’s top article on birds, biologists, and indigenous knowledge has something like 34 citations in Google Scholar. “So what do you think?” I ask them.
I think we are taught that almost everyhting off the internet is going to in some way be incorrect- which is why despite the 34 citations people are still thinking it might be a no go
“And,” the student continues, “the Mayo Clinic is the same way. They make money off of patients so they want to portray regular hospitals as working.”
but this is sort of what we are trained to do in school- look at everything critically because someone probably has some reason for saying what they do. Which when put in this context i am able to see that it is a shame that we cannot come to trust any sources
that is, articles or videos that look like news content, and which appear to have gone through a journalistic process, but which are actually made up.
I have fallen into this so many times where a website can look reputable but have just blatantly false information on it
First, fake news seems to be more “novel” than real news.
this is what I was just thinking! It seems like you can make fake news as wild and more marvelous than the truth
Fake news dominates according to both metrics. It consistently reaches a larger audience, and it tunnels much deeper into social networks than real news does
This is very interesting because you would think people would want to use these new and sophisticated social media platforms in order to spread accurate news to people who might be using that platform as the only method of receiving any news update
How does the computer know what truth is?
I think this sort of relates back to the article that was posted about the self driving ubers- what can we trust technology to do for us and how well can it do it? Better than us?
And while false stories outperform the truth on every subject—including business, terrorism and war, science and technology, and entertainment—fake news about politics regularly does best.
this is very interesting to me considering that false information on politics probably can lead to some pretty severe consequences.
: Fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories.
I think this is very well stated considering that every person who has been on social media has probably seen or read some kind of tabloid that turned out not to be true
independent researchers could analyze the data from trials and come to their own conclusions.
this is where information access becomes a crucial part of this paper and relates to our classes discussion as a whole!
One of the leading proposals would be to compel drug companies to release all of the data from trials of drugs that are on the market.
hopefully this would make it so that people who are looking critically at drugs are able to see correlations between negative side effects that are frequently swept under the rug until it is too obvious that it is a problem.
Company executives seeking to promote their drugs can design research that makes their products look better. They can select like-minded academics to perform the work.
it is so incredibly concerning that one is able to put this much spin on something as important as drug research and development- it seems that there needs to be more in place in terms of monitoring and searching for these biases.
who had previously accepted outside compensation from the sponsoring drug company in the form of consultant pay, grants or speaker fees.
We discussed pharmaceutical companies in my bioethics class as well- I had no idea before that there was so much corruption within these big companies that everyone relies on to give them adequate care.
In addition, studies show that women spend less time on research and more time on teaching and committee work.
this is interesting that women are more focused on the human interaction portion of academe
In a subfield labeled "household decision-making," however, the proportion of female authors shot way up, to 30 percent.
similar to my comment on examining only female dominated fields of work! it shows that women are still sort of locked in certain spheres of work!
over the entire 345 years, 22 percent of all authors were female.
this is wild to me! women deserve to get the bargaining power in all fields of work- to have an equal chance with men!
But women may not be as confident and have as much experience as men with those negotiations
everyone should check out the book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg! It encourages women to lean in to the table instead of leaning out from the conversation in the workplace- negotiating for yourself!
What we've done is assemble this huge collection of data across many of the major scientific, social-science, and humanities fields, providing a new lens for looking at how gender plays out in scholarly authorship,
I love this idea for research- that they did not even stick to just typically female associated fields of work- it is important to understand who is studying what before we could adjust to compensate for these differences
Were women and men equal in this fundamental coin of the academic realm, a currency that buys tenure, promotions, and career success
I did a project on women in leadership roles (mostly female CEOs) but it is interesting that it is mentioned that publishing buys tenure, promotions, and success (you can tell sort of by where this article is going men and women will not be equal)
decolonizing these conversations
this is something I have never really thought about though- the colonization of scholarly research and conversation
we should be doing the same in our scholarly communication discourse. The conversation needs to be an actual conversation and not a one-way soliloquy from the global north that gets imported colonial-style to the global south
i think this is such a huge problem in almost every field of study- the domination of the north over the south- it creates this one way and extremely limiting flow of thought
even if/when they have fellow Latin American colleagues whose work is more on point.
This is very sad- just because work does not come from the wester world or north America does not mean that work is not valid or useful- we are simply denying the use of good and valid thought based on who it is coming from.
more than half of the attendees left the main room, including all of the attendees from the global south and virtually all of the attendees of color.
this clearly shows that these topics are not "fringe" if more than half of the people are leaving the room
While there were several people present from other knowledge traditions—and the group leaders congratulated themselves again and again during the course of the meeting on the “diversity of voices” at the table
perhaps working to integrate these other knowledge traditions would lead to a more interesting application of knowledge principles.Allowing these people that make the group diverse to actually have part in the conversation could greatly increase our ability to generate new thought.
Otherwise, researchers can email authors for copies, request them from interlibrary-loan systems (which can take a day to process) or pay a one-time purchase fee.
it is just such a shame that finding certain articles involves jumping through this many hoops for students and researchers.
He said more than 85 percent of authors from the UC system currently choose to publish paywalled research.
I think that this is probably an interesting thing to examine through the lens of economics supply and demand- if everyone is paywalling their research should you too? Does it make you look more credible if it is paywalled? More desirable to the public?
charges institutions to access and publish research.
???? i doesnt really make sense to charge an institution to get research.???
1 – FairVote 2 – Clean Diamond Trade Act 3 – Federalist No. 70 4 – Consent decree 5 – Bob Jones University v. Simon 6 – First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
I think this is absolutely genius as a project- spreading accurate information to the broader public- shares the information we are lucky enough to learn at our institutions with everyone else that is correct and reliable.
I have long held the opinion that far too much student work disappears into a sort of curricular black box;
this reminds me of the conversation I had with Kyle about certain sites taking students intellectual property and repacking it as plagiarism detection software
Problematizing assumptions about information access isn’t really possible without examining the profit drivers that exist beneath the mechanism of scholarship, which opens topics ranging from open access to privacy to intellectual freedom to the digital divide
I couldnt agree with this more. Looking at the assumptions we make. We often miss crucial issues due to the fact that no one tells you
This may seem like a counterintuitive approach, but among my students it was a literally jaw-dropping illustration of a paywall that none of them knew existed
This is very interesting to me because I would also never know the privilege that I have to have access to so much information until someone told me so. Informing people of this privilege is what can be the catalyst of change.
learners become facilitators in the sense that they are challenged to enrich educational spaces in pursuit of critical insight into the systems that surround them
I love this quote here about how we as students are also meant to be facilitators of learning, somewhat teachers, by looking critically and challenging the world around us. I find that this can be frequently stifled in the traditional classroom where frequently there is no open forum for students to challenge ideas and beliefs and bounce things off one another, which is a critical part, not only to learning, but also to developing who you are as a student.
More importantly, it exposes the fallibility of assumptions about information and its ecology, identifies hidden injustices, encourages more open forms of participation in a knowledge polity, critiques the information-for-profit imperative, and demands the examination of personal and institutional privilege within scholarly (and not so scholarly) communication.
I think this really represents the idea that our class is "looking at things as they might otherwise be"
librarians and other information professionals are best equipped to shift the dynamic towards a freer flow of knowledge unattached to markers of access privilege
I think it is highly empowering that librarians and other information professionals have the power that it takes to begin chipping away at this issue of access equality. These are all people we know/ work with that have the ability to start making changes!
Between supporting student activism and joining students inactivism if we strongly agree with their concerns? How do we support students whose views are radicallydifferent from our own? What does activism look like in my discipline?
I think that this is a root of a lot of conflict. People have to learn to think more out of their own perspective and try to understand people with views that are radically different and those that are very similar. If we all took a little more time to do this there would be more understanding and less conflict.
s demanding the purge of racist symbols and figures in effect denying our history and stiflingthe free exchange of ideas? If we try to erase all traces of Wilson, who goes next? Perhapssomeof the names andimages should be removed? How do we decide? Where does it all end?
I think that this is a very interesting point. I think that there is such a delicate balance between acknowledging the things that have happened in the past, despite how bad they are, and trying to move forward from it. There is an element of learning from the past that should not be lost but not dwelling on things that have happened also is crucial to moving into equality
pervasive institutional racism, educational inequality, sexual assault, crushing student debt, abortion,sustainability, the BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions
I think that it is interesting that they are able to so easily pin down the exact issues that modern students are facing on campuses across the nation. These are all very present on our campus and campuses around the US
There are multiple definitions ofactivism, the simplest I have found being“taking action to effect social change”(Permanentculturenow.com, 2014). Others specify“vigorous campaigning”(Oxford Dictionaries,2016)or“vigorous action”(Merriam-Webster,2016). Still others narrow the definition of activism to“direct, oftenconfrontational action, such as a demonstration or strike
I think that it is very interesting that there are such diverse definitions of activism. Some that sort of have a negative connotation as being aggressive or pushy and others as trying to help change the world.
till, it takes courage to do right by kids in an era when the quantitative matters more than the qualitative, when meeting (someone else’s) standards counts for more than exploring ideas, and when anything “rigorous” is automatically assumed to be valuable.
I think the part about meeting someone else's standards is a particularly strong point. Grades push us to strive for what os seen as good and knowledgable by others rather than what we ourselves find interesting.
Extrinsic motivation, which includes a desire to get better grades, is not only different from, but often undermines, intrinsic motivation, a desire to learn for its own sake (Kohn 1999a).
My mom says that all of the time. We lack curiosity in the world around us and learning for a letter grade seems to be draining that from us even more
They’re less likely to wonder, say, “How can we be sure that’s true?” than to ask “Is this going to be on the test?”
I think this is something that is very obvious with people being educated right now. There is a severe lack of creative new thought and a larger emphasis on being able to quote old thought. Furthermore, I think learning for a test results in people learning very little and retaining even less- because if there is no test, why remember it?
Grades tend to diminish students’ interest in whatever they’re learning. A “grading orientation” and a “learning orientation” have been shown to be inversely related
This is something that I completely agree with. I think everyone who has been a student has found themselves flipping through a reading looking for the answers to a worksheet or a particular quote to use as evidence in an essay. You can almost avoid reading the actual document if you just find what you need from it. You get the right answers but learn very little.
It’s regular human communication astride a new medium. There’s no need to make it more than it is.
This point is particularly interesting to me because I feel as though we understand the concept of human interaction over the Web very well (as evidenced by our various social media websites). However, it seems that we struggle to put this same concept into online learning practices.
There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for teaching with technology, and the decisions about what the right tools are depends as much on the job as it does the laborers.
I think this is a very important concept in education in general. I think we often get caught up in doing things in the way that works for some and not for all. The beauty of online learning is that you can tailor the curriculum to the teacher and the students.
The presence of other students, but particularly the presence of a guide, a teacher, someone who could be there to help make sense of out of what she was learning.
I think that this is one of the most valid points thus far just based on my own personal experiences with online learning. It can be difficult to really have a large takeaway from a course when you feel as though the resources that you need (other students and teachers) are just out of reach or through a computer screen.