Class 17

Agenda

If you haven't caught @davideggenAB's series on reasons that we need to update Alberta's curriculum, you should check it out.
... as if the fact that some of it is over 30 years old isn't reason enough...#abed #ableg https://t.co/KbclMjw71m

— Rachel Notley (@RachelNotley) March 5, 2019

Today’s reason to update Alberta’s curriculum: Adding computational thinking and problem solving skills to prepare our kids for a complex, fast-changing world and economy. #abed #ableg

— david eggen (@davideggenAB) February 28, 2019

 Review course outline topics

Digital Fluency

• not just literacy
• Talking to a fish about water
• Marshall McLuhan

Ethical and cultural issues

• FN  Truth and Reconciliation
• Digital culture Who owns the internet?
• Internet access is a Human Right
• UN Special Rapporteur's Report
• Digital colonialism

I'm taking Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education online with @edxonline. Check it out! https://t.co/OTyiuETL66

— Unfiltered (@ggatin) March 6, 2019

Cyberbullying
• Is it distinguishable from dirty old bullying?
• Sells a lot of newspapers

Self Defense for ICT Users

The internet can be a source of trouble but also an answer to those same troubles.

Web-proofing

Most internet scams are mostly social engineering

• 6 key principles
• FUD
• Faulty reasoning
• cognitive bias
• Dunning Kruger effect
 Critical thinking
The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies

Electronic Freedom Foundation

• Security
• Surveillance Self Defense 

 What I use

Aliases
Gmail takes care of most spam, gotta deal with bacn.

Firefox Focus on Mobile
DuckDuckGo

TOR

Kaspersky Total Security  suite
Laptops and Mobile

• Antivirus
• VPN
• Password manager
Threma secure texting
Protonmail secure email

CCleaner
Malwarebytes
Decrapifier