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This was the Keynote talk presented at Day 1 at the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy 2015 at the University of Rhode Island presented by Julie Coiro, Jill Castek, and Dave Quinn
These slides accompany a Teaching at URI workshop I presented with Josh Caulkins for faculty and instructors at the University of Rhode Island on August 26, 2014
Assessing collaboration: The effect of pedagogical alignment and shared learning outcomes for information literacy instruction in first year writing classes
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Education Resource Center Workshop Series: Teaching, Training & Communicating...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
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Hand-out for course teams and learner-facing institutional services to support thinking about learners' digital literacy needs. Backed up by findings from the JISC Learning Literacies in a Digital Age study.
Having the skills and strategies to read, learn from, and communicate with the Internet will play a central role in our students’ success in an information age. But how can we best measure these new literacies? This session explores some of the challenges associated with developing valid and reliable measures of the complex literacy strategies and dispositions required to search for, comprehend, and respond to information on the Internet. The presenter will first share task examples and student responses from several assessments developed to measure online reading comprehension and communication skills. Then, conversation will turn to a number of important issues to consider when developing online literacy assessments that are not only psychometrically sound, but also useful to both researchers and classroom teachers. Participants will have an opportunity to share their own thoughts about how we might rethink the ways in which we evaluate the skills, strategies, and dispositions associated with reading and learning online.
Planning For And Supporting Productive Online InquiryJulie Coiro
How are online reading comprehension practices integrated into classroom instructional routines? In this session, Julie explains how curriculum-based information challenges and performance-based online reading comprehension measures can be used to capture the skills and practices of more and less skilled online readers. Then, she reviews practical examples of how to support elementary and secondary students as developing online readers using a model of Internet Reciprocal Teaching. She also shares research-based ideas for how to move readers through three phases of online inquiry while fostering higher-level thinking, critical evaluation, productive dialogue, and skillful argumentation practices across all grade levels.
Evaluation of sources: a new sustainable approach using argument analysis and...Elise Wong
Radcliff, S. & Wong, E. Evaluation of sources: a new sustainable approach using argument analysis and critical thinking. Presented at Library Instruction West 2014 conference.
An area of information literacy instruction that has increasingly gained attention is evaluation of sources. Moving away from the checklist approach (timeliness, relevancy, bias, credibility, authority), this session describes a new approach incorporating critical thinking questions and training for students on analyzing arguments using the Toulmin method, which students apply to evaluating articles and to detecting “myside” (confirmation) bias in their own writing.
This approach was used at two institutions, a 2-unit information literacy course at CSU East Bay and several sections of an English Composition course Saint Mary’s College and incorporated a “flipped classroom” design with much of the information being presented online to students prior to the in class session.
The presentation includes a literature review showing past uses of argument analysis and critical thinking in evaluation of sources, the instructional design from both institutions and results from a rubric–based evaluation of student work and student reflections.
In our department, we're required to present our study proposals for comment before submission to Higher Degrees. This allows for the group to give feedback for final corrections in the hope that the proposal is accepted without having to make major revisions.
This is the proposal presentation I gave to my department a few days ago. The feedback I received, although mainly editorial, means that the structure of this content is not the same as it will be in the final submission e.g. the Method has received another step in the process.
Presentation given at the 2015 Florida Library Association 2015 annual meeting on teaching with the new Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education.
Online Reading Comprehension: Challenges and Opportunities (Brazil 2014)Julie Coiro
This presentation was given during a conference for Brazilian educators and students, sponsored by XI Encontro Virtual de Documentação em Software Livre (EVIDOSOL) e VIII Congresso Internacional de Linguagem e Tecnologia online (CILTEC-online). A companion website with links to resources included in this presentation is available at http://coiroevidosol.wikispaces.com/home
Personal Inquiry & Online Research: Connecting Learners in Ways That MatterJulie Coiro
This was the Keynote talk presented at Day 1 at the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy 2015 at the University of Rhode Island presented by Julie Coiro, Jill Castek, and Dave Quinn
These slides accompany a Teaching at URI workshop I presented with Josh Caulkins for faculty and instructors at the University of Rhode Island on August 26, 2014
Assessing collaboration: The effect of pedagogical alignment and shared learning outcomes for information literacy instruction in first year writing classes
Presentation given at LILAC (Librarian's Information Literacy Annual Conference) 2010 in Limerick, Ireland
Presenters: Sara D. Miller, Assistant Library Instruction Coordinator, and Nancy DeJoy, Director of First Year Writing, Michigan State University
Education Resource Center Workshop Series: Teaching, Training & Communicating...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
This 60-minute interactive workshop "Teaching, Training & Communicating with Those in Science Denial" is based on research by Drs. Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer recently published in their book Science Denial: Why It Happens and What To Do About It. Facilitators, including one of the book's authors, present the causes and effects of science denial and 3 strategies to improve our science messaging to various audiences including while teaching, training, and communicating with those in science denial. Participants will work with colleagues in breakout groups to practice making their own scientific communications more effective and relatable. Most scientific communicators have not been trained in psychology, so this workshop is recommended for any university faculty and researchers in the sciences and/or those assisting faculty in the sciences with their courses or other educational offerings and trainings. This might also be of interest to TAs and graduate students pursuing a career in science and/or science teaching, and those in science fields working in community engagement and/or with the media.
Hand-out for course teams and learner-facing institutional services to support thinking about learners' digital literacy needs. Backed up by findings from the JISC Learning Literacies in a Digital Age study.
Having the skills and strategies to read, learn from, and communicate with the Internet will play a central role in our students’ success in an information age. But how can we best measure these new literacies? This session explores some of the challenges associated with developing valid and reliable measures of the complex literacy strategies and dispositions required to search for, comprehend, and respond to information on the Internet. The presenter will first share task examples and student responses from several assessments developed to measure online reading comprehension and communication skills. Then, conversation will turn to a number of important issues to consider when developing online literacy assessments that are not only psychometrically sound, but also useful to both researchers and classroom teachers. Participants will have an opportunity to share their own thoughts about how we might rethink the ways in which we evaluate the skills, strategies, and dispositions associated with reading and learning online.
Planning For And Supporting Productive Online InquiryJulie Coiro
How are online reading comprehension practices integrated into classroom instructional routines? In this session, Julie explains how curriculum-based information challenges and performance-based online reading comprehension measures can be used to capture the skills and practices of more and less skilled online readers. Then, she reviews practical examples of how to support elementary and secondary students as developing online readers using a model of Internet Reciprocal Teaching. She also shares research-based ideas for how to move readers through three phases of online inquiry while fostering higher-level thinking, critical evaluation, productive dialogue, and skillful argumentation practices across all grade levels.
Evaluation of sources: a new sustainable approach using argument analysis and...Elise Wong
Radcliff, S. & Wong, E. Evaluation of sources: a new sustainable approach using argument analysis and critical thinking. Presented at Library Instruction West 2014 conference.
An area of information literacy instruction that has increasingly gained attention is evaluation of sources. Moving away from the checklist approach (timeliness, relevancy, bias, credibility, authority), this session describes a new approach incorporating critical thinking questions and training for students on analyzing arguments using the Toulmin method, which students apply to evaluating articles and to detecting “myside” (confirmation) bias in their own writing.
This approach was used at two institutions, a 2-unit information literacy course at CSU East Bay and several sections of an English Composition course Saint Mary’s College and incorporated a “flipped classroom” design with much of the information being presented online to students prior to the in class session.
The presentation includes a literature review showing past uses of argument analysis and critical thinking in evaluation of sources, the instructional design from both institutions and results from a rubric–based evaluation of student work and student reflections.
In our department, we're required to present our study proposals for comment before submission to Higher Degrees. This allows for the group to give feedback for final corrections in the hope that the proposal is accepted without having to make major revisions.
This is the proposal presentation I gave to my department a few days ago. The feedback I received, although mainly editorial, means that the structure of this content is not the same as it will be in the final submission e.g. the Method has received another step in the process.
Presentation given at the 2015 Florida Library Association 2015 annual meeting on teaching with the new Information Literacy Framework for Higher Education.
A presentation on data gathering and ethics recently created for year 3 undergraduate students. Having looked around I couldn't find anything that wasn't text heavy so I
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
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- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
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Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdf
ethical issues in learning analytics
1. Learning Analytics and Higher
Education: Ethical Perspectives
Sharon Slade and Fenella Galpin
2. Overview of session
Introduction (15 mins)
The student perspective (45 mins)
Stakeholder discussions - to explore ethics in relation to
learning analytics, from the point of view of different stakeholders in
the process (45 mins)
Plenary - issues arising from earlier discussions, possible conflicts
between stakeholders (30 mins)
Towards a code of conduct (30 mins)
Wrap up - taking it forward (15 mins)
Lunch!
3. Our students leave information
about themselves every time they
interact with us
With no realization or understanding
of what we do with that information
So, how do we use that data – and
does it matter?
4. Learning analytics is the measurement, collection,
analysis and reporting of data about learners to increase
our understanding of them and their learning needs, and
to use that understanding to influence their learning.
5. What do we mean by data about
learners? Disability
Learning style
Background Family income
Funding Learning Posting to forums -
Gender issues frequency
behaviours
Assignment/test Distance from
scores Posting to forums -
content campus
Study goals Language
Age Log in frequency
Working status Websites visited
Hitting study Ethnicity
milestones Frequency of contact
Study history with tutor
6. What might we be concerned about?
Most papers have focused on privacy issues, but is there
more to it than that?
Here are just some aspects that we might want to think
about and explore….
7. Privacy
Do students appreciate that information is being
gathered about them?
Are we explicit about what we might do with that
information?
8. Transparency and robustness
Who can see the data collected?
Who can see/influence the models?
How reliable and robust are the models?
9. Power
Who gets to decide what happens next?
Who can choose which students get more less
------
support?
Do teachers, learners, and administrators have
the same authority/rights to determine what
support is provided?
10. Ownership issues
Who can mine our data for other purposes?
Can students opt out of having their information used?
… and what are the consequences of that?
How long is data kept for?
11. Responsibilities
Is there a shared responsibility to ensure
that information is accurate? Can students
opt to disguise themselves online?
Do we have a responsibility to ensure
equitable treatment of students based on
what we know? (or despite what we know)
12. Snakes and ladders
Work on a table in groups of 4 or 5
Say a quick hello to others there and share
the instructions on the table
You have 30 minutes to complete as much
of the game as you can
13. The student perspective
How does it feel to be a student?
Did you feel advantaged or disadvantaged?
Did it feel fair/unfair?
How did having a label feel?
14. Exploring from different
perspectives…
Join in one of the groups – based on your card
colour, and discuss with other participants the
questions noted there.
You have 45 minutes to discuss and note on flip
charts your thoughts before we share as a whole
group.
15. Towards a code of conduct
Taking forward what has been discussed so
far…. how might we start to capture what
really matters?
16. The OU’s Data Protection Policy
(health warning – summary only…)
We use personal information to:
• Process applications
• Carry out research (internally or using external agency)
• Produce statistics for publication
• Provide student information to other organisations, in line with
legal and government requirements
• Some information may be used by the University to identify
students who require additional support or specific service.
We consider disclosure of this information as explicit
consent to use this information for this purpose.
• Your contact details may be passed to survey contractors… used
only for survey purposes and data will then be deleted.
17. What are the main areas to
consider?
Campbell et al suggest: 1
Consent Transparency
Data privacy Robustness/reliability
Data stewardship Involvement of faculty
Information sharing Avoidance of bias
(internal) Sensitivity about certain
Obligation to act profiles/types
Distribution of resources
1
Campbell, J.P., DeBlois, P.B. and Oblinger, D.B. (2007) EDUCAUSE Review, 42(4), 40–57
18. Interested in further discussion?
sharon.slade@open.ac.uk
fenella.galpin@open.ac.uk
lak12-ethics@googlegroups.com
