Tag: information processing
-
People aren’t going to fact-check AI
Breakstone, J., Smith, M., Wineburg, S., Rapaport, A., Carle, J., Garland, M., & Saavedra, A. (2021). Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait. Educational Researcher, 50(8), 505–515. doi: 10.3102/0013189X211017495 Note that this paper was published in 2021. “Asked to investigate a site claiming to “disseminate factual reports” on climate science, 96% never learned about the…
-
Stop taking notes on your phone
I can’t believe how many people I’ve seen taking notes on their phones at this conference. Surely they must realise how inefficient this is? Laptops are better. Tablets with a keyboard also work. Or seriously, use a notepad and pen.
-
Thinking in public: A conversation with Tom Jesson
Tom Jesson is a physiotherapist, and self-employed researcher and writer based in Houston Texas, who I’ve wanted to speak to for a while. While I’ve always known Tom to be a thoughtful and careful writer, evident in his work that’s been published and shared widely in physiotherapy circles, I’ve not really thought much about how…
-
Knowledge work and academic productivity
This is an introduction to a new project I’m starting where I think about, explore, and discuss ideas around workflow, process, and productivity as a knowledge worker. If being an academic is about using information to create value for others, then I don’t think that we have systematic processes that we can use to manage…