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A few resources for Digital Literacy: From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675139#35676503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675139#35676503 : > M
by westurner 23d ago
A few resources for Digital Literacy:
From
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675139#35676503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675139#35676503 :
> Media Literacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy#Media_literacy_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_literacy#Media_literacy_...
Internet safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_safety
Trust & Safety:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_safety
Project Interland game:
https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland/ https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_us/interland/
Be Internet Awesome Digital Citizenship Safety Family Guide [PDF]:
https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-interland.appspot.com/en-us/hub/pdfs/Google_BeInternetAwesome_DigitalCitizenshipSafety_FamilyGuide.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-interland.appspot.com/en...
AAP HealthyChildren.org > Family Media Plan:
https://www.healthychildren.org/English/fmp/Pages/MediaPlan.aspx https://www.healthychildren.org/English/fmp/Pages/MediaPlan....
Journalism > Ethics and Standards:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism#Ethics_and_standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism#Ethics_and_standard...
"The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now
open-source" (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173228
DDJ: Data-Driven Journalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_journalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_journalism
Data Science; as an interdisciplinary major or minor:
There are very few ways to do actual causal analysis given only
observational data. It is inappropriate to make statements about
causal relations given only observational data without causal
analysis.
Typical statistical mistakes in media; e.g. from new articles from this month.
Misuse of Statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_statistics
From "Environment shapes emotional cognitive abilities more than genes" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40110151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40110151 :
> From "The World Needs Computational Social Science" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746921 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37746921 :
>> "Answering causal questions using observational data" (2021) [PDF] https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2021/10/advanced-economicsciencesprize2021.pdf https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2021/10/advanced-economic... .. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2021/popular-information/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2021/pop...
Causal analysis; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_analysis
Causal inference > Malpractice in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_inference#Malpractice_in_causal_inference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_inference#Malpractice_i...
Spurious relationship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship
"Spurious Correlations": https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations :
What is the statistical correlation (Pearson R-value) between Per
capita consumption of cheese and _________ ? Is that a causal
relationship? Could it be?
"Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data
Science" https://inferentialthinking.com/ https://inferentialthinking.com/; was originally developed
for the course "Data 8: Foundations of Data Science" as a Jupyter Book
(a book built from Jupyter Notebooks and Markdown documents and a
_toc.yml).
An exercise adapted from College English Composition I/II: Underline
each premise, Underline Facts and opinions/preferences/biases
differently, Identify sources/citations/footnotes and credibility of
each, Assess the logical form of the argument/claim. Find multiple
contradictory viewpoints.
Meta-analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysis
Fact checking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact-checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact-checking
Thing > CreativeWork > Review > ClaimReview: https://schema.org/ClaimReview https://schema.org/ClaimReview
AAP > Healthy Digital Habits resources:
https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/campaigns-and-toolkits/healthy-digital-habits/ https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/campaigns-and-toolkits/heal...