ICT – Penworks.Net

29/08/2022

The terrible assumptions of digital literacy

This post is about ridding ourselves of dumb assumptions about digital literacy – who knows about tech and who doesn’t. Mostly, all assumptions are wrong, and do harm to how society progresses as a digital community Recently I’ve been dealing with various projects that relate to digital skill and literacies, and am fairly overwhelmed at how many ignorant assumptions swirl...

Repair, re-use, renew, adapt, survive

It is more than a year since I had to reinstall my operating system on my sturdy MacBook Pro (2015 8gb RAM 128gb SSD, OS X Yosemite 10.10.5). Everything still works great, and I celebrate my own sheer bloodymindedness plus *desperate need* to achieve this. Well done me. I was just about to leave for London, ready to teach the...

@LearningSmartly

RT @Knowledge21org: governments continue to act as if the music, film and publishing industry are the only ones affected by copyright law. Governments/EU must start to give equal weighting in copyright policy to R&D / science and realise much innovation comes from the public sector. #FixCopyright

RT @thenextweb: The ESA's found a way to get around using Russian fuel to power its ambitions in space https://t.co/Q2wqNyLRrl

RT @creativecommons: Last month, CC hosted two webinars on artificial intelligence. We convened panels of experts in AI, art, data, and intellectual property law to look at issues related to AI inputs and outputs. 🎥 Check out the recaps and recordings ⬇️ https://t.co/YIbS0xhLXJ

RT @tony_sutton: Bank details of South Staffordshire Water customers posted on the dark web - cc @troyhunt https://t.co/tSI7GETKeE via @computing_news

Maybe a sign of the times. Remote working esp. adjunct staff is a growing trend in HE. How unis are funded in the proposed UK repositioning of local need and support (see Brown review) might really impact this. #brownreview (correct link: https://t.co/FA94AY3nuy) https://t.co/aDyZhcWp0Z

RT @RuthArnold: Watch this space. “…universities would be included in local economic strategic decision making, alongside the NHS. The UK Infrastructure Bank would “assist and advise universities… providing matched funding of investments in local spinouts”. @dkernohan https://t.co/kCvxS8TSGw

Tag: ICT

The terrible assumptions of digital literacy

Repair, re-use, renew, adapt, survive