Category «Education»

Schoolkids Are Falling Victim to Disinformation and Conspiracy Fantasies

Scientific American: “Although children are prime targets, educators cannot figure out how best to teach them to separate fact from fiction. When Amanda Gardner, an educator with two decades of experience, helped to start a new charter elementary and middle school outside of Seattle last year, she did not anticipate teaching students who denied that …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Book bans: How Amazon, Google, and Apple can fight back with a Freedom Archive

ZDNet: “Hardly a day goes by when we don’t hear from a school or library somewhere in the United States that they’ve removed a book from circulation following complaints from parents or constituents. Last week, in a school district in Tennessee, it was the removal of MAUS, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, that …

Subjects: Censorship, Education, Free Speech, Internet, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Is your job at the top of the Glassdoor best jobs 2022 list? If not, try one that is

TechRepublic: “Psychiatrists earn more ($252,385), and real estate agents and corporate recruiters have higher job satisfaction scores (4.4 out of 5). Despite that stiff competition, an IT job took the top spot in Glassdoor’s annual list of the top jobs in the U.S. Enterprise architects are number 1, followed by full-stack engineers, data scientists, devops …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Legal Research

The ability to work well remotely isn’t a fixed preference or personality trait, but a skill you can develop

Inc. – This Is the Mindset You Need to Be Successful at Remote Work, According to a New Cambridge Study. “A simple change in how you think about remote work can make your days instantly more productive and pleasant. What does it take to make remote work successful? For both employees and entrepreneurs, a good …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Knowledge Management

Academic Journal Claims it Fingerprints PDFs for ‘Ransomware,’ Not Surveillance

Vice: “One of the world’s largest publishers of academic papers said it adds a unique fingerprint to every PDF users download in an attempt to prevent ransomware, not to prevent piracy.  Elsevier defended the practice after an independent researcher discovered the existence of the unique fingerprints and shared their findings on Twitter last week.  “The …

Subjects: Copyright, Education, Legal Research

Transforming Metadata into Linked Data to Improve Digital Collection Discoverability

Bahnemann, Greta, Michael Carroll, Paul Clough, Mario Einaudi, Chatham Ewing, Jeff Mixter, Jason Roy, Holly Tomren, Bruce Washburn, and Elliot Williams. 2021. Transforming Metadata into Linked Data to Improve Digital Collection Discoverability: A CONTENTdm Pilot Project. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research. https://doi.org/10.25333/fzcv-0851. “This report shares the CONTENTdm Linked Data Pilot project findings. In this pilot project, …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S.

The New York Times: “…Parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades. The American Library Association said in a preliminary report that it received an “unprecedented” 330 reports of book challenges, each of which can include multiple books, last fall. “It’s a pretty …

Subjects: Censorship, Education, Libraries

Massive open index of scholarly papers launches

Nature: “An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and research topics, has been launched. The index, called OpenAlex after the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt, also aims to chart connections between these data points to create a comprehensive, interlinked database of the global research …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries