information literacy
Information literacy basic mechanics
Basic mechanics of information literacy explained: transparency, traceability, replicability, accountability.
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Teach a man to fish
What happens if we stop enabling people to learn, and focus on profit-building for a few?
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Life is change
Where we are is not where we will always be. The only way that the status quo remains is with intense energy and pressure to maintain it. Entropy is fundamental to our universe. That also means, we don’t have to wait for the big systems to change. We change
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Humanist IT: introduction
Information technology — internet, genAI, software, all of it — is stuck. I’ve heard more people in the past month want to walk away from using what they consider irredeemably broken tools than I had the three years previously. The first time I heard it was from a developer, complaining around
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Humanist IT: getting stuck
The short version: IT is broken. It’s not working, to the point where people are ready to give it up, just like they would a mangled…
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Humanist IT: the importance of choice
The short version: IT is broken. It’s not working, to the point where people are ready to give it up, just like they would a mangled…
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Humanist IT: How to get unstuck
The way back into humanist IT is both incredible simple and incredibly complex, and it is almost the same phrase. Understand the domain. In other words, understand the context; reach for the yes-and that adds nodes to transform, not just a heightened expression of what’s already there. Make a
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Information pollution, poisoning, and literacy
People are information beings. Our civilization is created from shared information with practical application — part know-how, part doing.
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Shift priorities for a thought revolution
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Clustering information
Something’s been noodling in the back of my mind since my mass-effort to provide some kind of supporting information for my book (700…
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Trustlessness
Something has been resonating in my brain since I called the last post ‘done’, specifically this statement:
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Approaching the news leveraging information literacy
As I caught up with news this morning, I found myself wanting to add to my last piece…which I also did yesterday. I took three things away…