Media creation affects all five of the core elements of media literacy as defined by NAMLE, which heavily parallels user experience (UX) content best practices that help users quickly find content that is the most valuable to them. UX content informs, helps, inspires,...
How does the fear of failing impact a person’s willingness to try? Mark Rober conducted an interesting experiment on his YouTube channel, where he asked his followers to play a simple game he made because he wanted to prove that anyone could learn to code. Image...
The “Real Men Don’t Cry” Stereotype I remember playing in the cul-de-sac every week with the other neighborhood kids all the way through elementary school — playing manhunt, riding bikes, and playing all kinds of games and activities. One friend in particular — a boy...
A recent post on the Reuters Fact Check blog addressed a tweet that climate change is a hoax, where a map of global temperatures from August 1, 2022 was attached. The map showed that on August 1, 2022, the global temperatures were .1° Celsius below the 1979-2000...
How much data is collected about me each day? Most of us are aware that data is being collected about us when we interact with the internet: personal & biometric data, behavioral data, and interests & affinities. Personal data is challenging to avoid giving...
What if you were doing research to learn more about something – it could be for school, work, personal health, or anything else – and, unbeknownst to you, the answers you came to were not the full picture? Think about which questions you turn to the internet in order...
