Category «Education»

Measuring News Consumption in a Digital Era

Pew – As news outlets morph and multiply, both surveys and passive data collection tools face challenges – “This report is the culmination of this effort and is organized into three sections: Chapter 1 looks at the U.S. public’s familiarity with newer concepts related to news; Chapter 2 examines possible ways to improve survey-based measures …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

As trust in news falls around the world Reuters Institute report looks at trade-offs involved in trying to regain and retain it

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford – What we think we know and what we want to know: perspectives on trust in news in a changing world – “Trust in news has eroded worldwide. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2020, fewer than four in ten people (38%) …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

A Political Obituary for Donald Trump

The Atlantic –  The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived. “To assess the legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency, start by quantifying it. Since last February, more than a quarter of a million Americans have died from COVID-19—a fifth of the world’s deaths from the disease, the highest number of any country. In …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Courts, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Financial System, Food and Nutrition, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

7 YouTube secrets: How to make a GIF, get a transcript, and more

Fast Company: “…while many people never do more than open up a video, watch it, and then move on, YouTube has a surprisingly rich set of features. Here are some cool tricks you can use to make your viewing experience more engaging, efficient, and fun…If you’re looking to achieve true YouTube-watching mastery, then keyboard shortcuts …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Search Engines

The 5 Biggest Lessons We’ve Learned About How Coronavirus Spreads on Campus

Chronicle of Higher Education – “When colleges shifted operations online in the spring because of Covid-19, so much remained in question. How did the new coronavirus spread? What were its ill effects? Could colleges open for in-person instruction in the 2020-21 academic year, and what would happen if they did? As the fall term comes …

Subjects: Education, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Amazon Publishing in Talks to Offer E-books to Public Libraries

Publishers Weekly – The potential deal would be a breakthrough moment in the library e-book market as Amazon currently does not make its digital content available to libraries. It would also be a major coup for the Digital Public Library of America’s upstart e-book platform and its SimplyE library reading app…Such an agreement would be …

Subjects: Copyright, Digital Rights, E-Commerce, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

DC Resources and Assistance Fund for Washington, D.C.’s Frontline and Essential Workers

“With the outbreak and spread of COVID-19, The District of Columbia has undergone a seismic shift in daily life. Residents are resilient, but many across the District and from all walks of life are feeling the impacts of the novel coronavirus physically, emotionally, financially, and otherwise. In order to help meet the critical and dynamic …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Food and Nutrition, Health Care, Legal Research, Poverty

The True Costs of Misinformation: Producing Moral and Technical Order in a Time of Pandemonium

YouTube – Video via The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, December 3, 2020 – “It all feels like a precursor to a bad joke: What do foreign agents, white supremacists, conspiracists, snake oil salesmen, political operatives, white academics, and a disgruntled bunch of zoomers have in common? The groups have collided in a …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

43 Books For Everyone On Your Holiday List

BuzzFeedNews: [Subjects include: food, travel, young adults, quarantine hobbies, pop culture, mysteries, the British monarchy and more] One selection as follows: “…Vegans and vegetarians, rejoice! Vegetable Kingdom, with over 100 recipes of plant-based goodness from the James Beard Award-winning chef Bryant Terry, is about to be their new food bible. And if you know someone …

Subjects: Education, Food and Nutrition, Knowledge Management, Recommended Books

Here’s how the U.S. can lead the world on climate change innovation

Bill Gate – It’s time to create the National Institutes of Energy Innovation. “…There is a better way. To reduce duplication, focus the government’s efforts, and get the most innovation out of every dollar of funding, we should create a new organization: the National Institutes of Energy Innovation. This the most important thing the U.S. …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Health Care

Can a Patron Who Gets Sick Sue the Library?

American Libraries: “In this column, Tomas A. Lipinski, a lawyer who became a librarian, explores copyright for remote learning, exemptions to protected media for education, and exculpatory agreements—which were in the news during election season, when participants at certain rallies waived their right to hold the host liable for any harm or illness contracted…”

Subjects: Copyright, Education, Health Care, Legal Research, Libraries

Teaching Law Online: Yesterday and Today, But Tomorrow Never Knows

Nathenson, Ira Steven, Teaching Law Online: Yesterday and Today, But Tomorrow Never Knows (November 15, 2020). St. Louis University Law Journal, 2021 Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3731103 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3731103 “If The Beatles were to write an album about COVID-19, they might sing, “Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away, but now it looks as …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research