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Who’s Controlling Your World? 5/10

Donna Miller FryLeave a Comment on Who’s Controlling Your World? 5/10@fryed, algorithm, Audrey Watters, Brodie Fenton, cbc Ideas, Donna Fry, Facebook, Hossein Derakhshan, Kin Lane, Sue Gardner, Tech Gypsies

According to former Wikimedia Executive Director, Sue Gardner, we spend three hours each day inside our mobile apps, for every hour we spend on the open web (CBC Ideas, Jan 16, 2017). While in many of those apps, what we are exposed to is largely controlled by algorithms.  Our feeds are “personalized”, based on our […]

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#ONEWORDONT #ONEWORD2017

Donna Miller Fry1 Comment on #ONEWORDONT #ONEWORD2017@mrfusco, #digitallifeskills, #digitalliteracies, #LTELT, #oneword, #onewordont, Audrey Watters, Carlo Fusco, Kin Lane, Tech Gypsies

Back in August, Carlo Fusco invited me to speak on his podcast about my education passions, and the things that were keeping me up at night. (The podcast can be found here) In the podcast, I quickly outline my concern about the gap between what I see happening in schools, and what we need to learn […]

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