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Using the internet to get smarter
This document provides tips and resources for using the internet to get smarter. It lists popular social media followers, questions whether the internet makes us dumber, and outlines potential benefits of using it for education such as improving brain health, happiness, and decision making. It cautions that the internet could have negative effects depending on the sites accessed. The document recommends fact-checking websites and identifies popular massive open online courses and educational podcasts, videos, and websites. It provides examples of searching online and curating educational content and channels to subscribe to for ongoing learning.
Using the internet to get smarter
- 1. How to Usethe Internet to Get Smarter www.aboutcancer.com
- 2. How to Usethe Internet to Get Dumber Followers of Notable People Found on Twitter (2019) Justin Bieber (106M) Donald Trump (64M) Kim Kardashian (61M) Britney Spears (56M)
- 3. 3 Are We GettingDumber? “When You’re Dead You Don’t Know You’re Dead. The Pain is only felt by others. Same thing when You’re Stupid!”
- 4. 4 PUBLISHED ON: JUN14, 2018
- 5. How to Usethe Internet to Get Smarter …Why Bother? 1.Keep your brain healthier? 2.Make you happier? 3.Help you make better decisions. I’d rather go fishin’…
- 6. 6 Caveat Emptor! Consider thesource! • It won’t make you happier or healthier if you are exposed to damaging or destructive web sites • It won’t help you make smarter or better decisions if you get inaccurate information or misinterpret what you read
- 7. 7 Climate Feedback, climatechange. FactCheck.org non-partisan projects of the Annenberg Public Policy Center Fact Checker (The Washington Post) PolitiFact.com: A service of the Tampa Bay Times Snopes.com focuses on, but is not limited to, validating and debunking urban legends TruthOrFiction.com validates and debunks urban legends, RealClearPolitics' Fact Check Review aspires to offer quaternary-level critiquing You Should Have a Favorite Fact Checker Also try to identify the factual sites used by insiders (for cancer I recommend nccn.org and uptodate.com)
- 8. Searching for EducationalInformation on the Web
- 9. 9 Before making alist of favorite or ‘best’ web sites 1. Is your goal to keep your brain sharper? Go for variety of more challenging sites (science, history, philosophy) of varying degrees of complexity and focus. 2. If your goal is to make yourself happier, then art, humor, culture, sports, nostalgia may make more sense and perhaps variety is more important than focus or intensity. 3. If your goal is to learn and keep current with more practical information then news, political, economic, medical, and other consumer sites may be best.
- 10. Practical Tips orInternet Lifehack’s 1. Create a bookmark list of favorite websites 2. Subscribe to websites or create alerts 3. Go to google or google scholar and create alerts 4. Download apps from better educational and news sites 5. Google to search a topic and then look at videos then subscribe to their channels 6. Subscribe to the rapidly expanding lists of podcasts 7. Take advantage of MOOC’s 8. Find a useful site or video, email the link to yourself and create educational save files (anticipate memory issues)
- 11. What is aMOOC? • A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web • MOOCs are a recent and widely researched development in distance education first introduced in 2006 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012 • The first MOOCs emerged from the open educational resources (OER) movement, which was sparked by MIT OpenCourseWare project. • Alongside the development of these open courses, other E- learning platforms emerged — such as Khan Academy, Udemy, and ALISON — which are viewed as similar to MOOCs and work outside the university system or emphasize individual self-paced lessons
- 12. List of NotableMOOCs (Massive open online course) providers (2019)
- 13. Top High Quality‘Free’ Educational Online Sites Everyone Should Know About • Coursera • Khan Academy • Open Culture • Udemy • Academic Earth • edX • Alison • iTunes U • Stanford Online • Harvard Extension • Open Yale Courses • UC Berkeley Class Central • MIT OpenCourseWare • Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative • TED-Ed
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- 28. On many ofthe ‘free’ sites, only a small number of the courses are free.
- 29. Top High QualityFree Educational Podcasts • University of London Podcasts • University of Oxford Podcasts • BBC Podcasts
- 30. 30 Popular Educational Podcasts Asof 2019 this is just taking off!
- 31. 31 Google the word“enlightenment”
- 32. 32 Over 10 MillionVideos
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- 35. 35 Google the word“enlightenment” Side tracked on philosophers, e.g. Voltaire
- 36. 36 1. May wantto always start by at least reading the Wikipedia entry 2. May then want to hit the books button to see where that leads
- 37. 37 Review some ofthe book titles and see if they are free full text (or samples)
- 38. 38 Almost 8 Millionvideos! Voltaire Foundation also School of Life (12 min biography) 36 min biography 2 min biography 14 min biography by Tom Richey
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- 41. Some of myFavorite YouTube Channels to Subscribe to • 92nd Street Y • Academy of Ideas • Big Think • Bozeman Science • Cold Fusion • Crash Course • Intelligence Squared Debates or IQ2 • Kahn Academy • MinutePhysics • MIT OpenCourseWare • PBS Space Time • Stanford • Talks at Google • TED-Ed • The Royal Institution • The RSA • The School of Life
- 42. Summary Google any topicand click on video or books and when you find something worth remembering email the link back to yourself If you find an interesting YouTube channel hit ‘subscribe’ and you will eventually have a nice library of free interesting, entertaining or educational free videos. Start searching through the new Podcasts that are coming out. If you have the energy and stamina for it watch some of the full online free university courses. You can download their apps to your phone and watch them when convenient.
- 43. 43 Cancer Information Cancer andScience Videos Radiation Cancer Calculators Other Topics www.aboutcancer.com Robert Miller MD