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Critical Immersive-Triggered Literacy as a Key Component for Inclusive Digital Education
Chrysoula Lazou, Avgoustos Tsinakos, MDPI, 2023/07/10

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I don't think the term "Immersive-Triggered Literacy" will catch on, but the concept is interesting. Critical immersive-triggered literacy (CIT Literacy) is "defined as a skill development framework that triggers learners' attention and facilitates digital well-being for meaningful learning instances via immersive technologies." This article (30 page PDF) draws from the idea that "critical digital and media literacy refers to the skillset of analyzing, deconstructing, reconstructing, and critically evaluating information quality, validity, and reliability," and sugggests that students "must explore the world by not only consuming information but also constructing new knowledge and creating new artifacts in the new produsage ecosystem," in other words, a type of digital fluency. The question is, how does this extend to immersive reality? That's what the paper attempts to answer, applying the the KSAVE (Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, Values, Ethics) 21st century skills framework to the metaverse.

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Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week
Shiona McCallum, BBC News, 2023/07/10

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Meta's rival to Twitter has reached 100 million accounts. To put this into context, Twitter never had more than 400 million users. Threads might not replace Twitter, but it's well on its way to being as large as Twitter. Also: Doug Peterson reflects after a few days on Threads.

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America's first law regulating AI bias in hiring takes effect this week
Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 2023/07/10

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I have written before about the use of AI to screen applicants and make job offers. Already, "as many as four out of five American employers use some kind of automated technology to make employment decisions." This article has a good list of uses of AI in the hiring process. The pushback against this possibility is beginning. "Now in New York City, new legislation is being used to determine how much say AI can have in job applications." Europe's new law may also limit the use of AI in hiring. The concerns being raised include the perpetuation of bias, the unfairness of AI-based hiring decisions, and the lack of human oversight. At some point, though  it may be found that AI-based hiring is more fair and more effective than humans. What then?

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What is Web3 and how does blockchain enable it?
Dr. Elli Androulaki, IBM Blog, 2023/07/10

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This article outlines the major elements of web3. "Web3 is a vision and technology effort—coupled with economic incentives—to rebalance economic power in the web across service providers, application developers and consumers. This effort envisages a decentralized, more balanced world. Trust and power are distributed across service providers and application or content creators, consumer privacy is honored (as responsibility of data management moves to the edge) and creators are compensated for their creations." It's a response and a pushback against centralized identity, data and content providers. I'm less sanguine about the 'tokenized economy' but the rest seems pretty important to me.

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