Freshman English at Brockport

Using this as a space saver for a brief poster I did in May 2019.

https://tinyurl.com/BrockportENG

Defined By Data: Tools and Tactics for Keeping our Information Safe

"Defined by Data: Tools and Tactics for Keeping our Information Safe"

Davis Erin Anderson

June 20, 2019

Loyalty cards are one of the biggest abusers of data privacy

Real world consequences to what you do

Data Flows

Internet is the physical infrastructure and the Web is the software on top of it.  Web is the human access point.  SMTP, FTP,  helps support many lanes of traffic.

The Internet is a global interconnected network of computer devices.

The web is one set of software services that runs on the Internet.

World Science Festival Youtube video

How The Internet Works - A Packet's Tale - YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfoc3Cxgnpk

Who's obtaining our data?

corporations, govt, malicious hackers, people we know, in some cases

First party trackers: the website you are visiting

Third party trackers: Facebook like buttons, embedded twitter feeds, et cetera

Mechanics:  Cookies, Browser Fingerprinting

https://panopticlick.eff.org

https://webkay.robinlinus.com

Web beacon

Our Digital Shadows

Hot on your trail, privacy, data and 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqWuioPHhz0

data detox kit tactical tech

Data Detox Kit

https://datadetoxkit.org/en/about

#privacyproject

Mitigating Digital Risk

1. Connecting securely

Using https -- protects against attacks, secure communication

Using password-protected Wi-fi -- open wifi allows for network snooping and man in the middle attacks

Digital equity issue

Don't let your phone be set to join networks ...turn it off.  You want it to ask if you want to join the networks.  Delete old networks

Change your MAC address before connecting to WI-Fi

Kevin Metnick book: The Art of invisibility

Adam Alter -- addiction/compulsion to devices

Keep your security settings up to date

Turn off wi-fi when you are done

Turn off file sharing and AirDrop

Choose your network wisely

Setting strong passwords

Protect against unauthorized account access

Protect against data breaches

Have you been Pwned?

-https://haveibeenpwned.com

Type in your email address

Avoid the most common passwords

-Don't substitute a character for a number

-Don't use all lowercase or all uppercase

-Don't use the same password for multiple accounts

A couple of methods:

-Bruce Schneier's method -- Turn a sentence into a password.

-Person-Action-Object (PAO)-String together four uncommon words, avoid familiar phrases, tie to a memory aid

• Set unique passwords for each account.
• Make sure passwords have a lot of entropy
• Set up 2 factor authentication
• Always set a password or PIN
• If possible set a longer PIN
• Use biometrics in combo with another method
• Face and PIN
• Fingerprint and passcodde
• and so on...
• Set strong lock patterns in your Android phone
• not first letter of your name
• Invest in a password manager -- 
• Set up yubikeys for 2FA purposes

How our data gets tracked on the web

Select web browser carefully

Update your browser settings

• Disallow popup adds
• automatically delete cookies/history
• Never auto-save passwords

Use Incognito mode

Install plugins to protect against third-party tracking -- No script, ghostery, script block on chrome, Block

Uninstall super cookies Flash Player, Silverlight

Uninstall toolbars added by third parties

Sending Secure Messages

http vs https -- like a postcard vs a letter in the mail

Your metadata story

https://immersion.media.mit.edu

How get hacked: Brute force, email scams

Run Google's security checkup Tool

Keep your work-related email on task

Answer personal emails outside of work time

Create a secondary email address to keep your main account private

Go Phish

https://phishingquiz.withgoogle.com

Managing Social media

curate your friends/followers lists

be careful what you post

create restricted groups to share content

restrict your account to known viewers

Update settings to reflect your preferences

Refrain from using OAuth -- Don't use google or facebook to log in to a site

 - Create unique accounts for all services

log out of social media sites when you are not using them.

Delete social media apps from your phone

Privacy in the Library

Risk Assessment questions

Brief Takeaway thoughts from ACRL 2019, Cleveland, OH

ACRL 2019, Cleveland, OH

1. Less reference, more outreach
   More working with faculty on assignments, workshops, their research
2. Collaboration everywhere
3. Value Services over collections (primarily the print book collection)
   Scholarly communications
   Data Collection and Management
   Outreach
   Instruction
4. Tension between service and instruction/teaching/outreach is being felt at many institutions.  We need to be more proactive and less reactive.
5. Library as a central information place-- Including how to find other services on campus and connect researchers to the tools/folks who know how to use them.
6. Feedback from all constituents is helpful and necessary.  

"White Awake: An honest look at what it means to be white" by Daniel Hill

White Awake: an honest look at what it means to be white
Daniel Hill

Awakening
What are the mile markers that indicate I'm experiencing authentic awakenings? (p. 142)

1. Becoming theologically awake
Luke 4:18-19, 21 .. "He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free..."
2. Recognizing the kingdom battle over the Image Dei
3. No longer being defensive about white supremacy
4. Dismantling white supremacy trumps the seeking of diversity
5. Changing the evaluation of growth from "What am I supposed to do?" to "How well do I see?" 
6. Recognizing privilege faster and with greater precision

Active Participation
1. Continue to education yourself
2. Get proximate to suffering
3. Explore ways to share your social network
4. Find a place to serve consistently
5. Place yourself under the leadership of people of color
6. Invest in white people
7. Learn to locate yourself
8. Become a change agent within  your sphere of influence
9. Find some young people to build with
10. Commit to strong, persistent, and determined action
11. Follow in the footsteps of the pioneer (Jesus)
   Heb. 12: 1-2 "Therefore since we are surrounded... great cloud of witnesses"

Cultivating Resilience: A Personal toolbox

Notes from May 15, 2018 workshop

Resilience is "bouncing back" from difficult experiences.
Major stressors
Resistance is human, we all feel that way at times.
-physical exercise increases resilience
-chronic stress -- brain is always sounding an alarm
-a positive self concept and confidence in  one's strengths and abilities

Caring for others creates resilience

Have a confidant in your work team
A small distraction may be helpful
Most important thing that makes a team effective: psychological safety

Suppressing feelings isn't healthy
Make decisions that are value-based
Practice self-compassion, gratitude, and forgiveness.

Manage energy NOT time
- Interval training, recovery is key!
Decrease screen time -- Be present
Determine your peak hours
Create habits and fuel your energy

Recommended reading: The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal

Teaching & Learning Day 2019

Jim Lang

PART ONE

"Teaching Distracted Minds"

Book to be released in 2020

Small Teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning (2016)

Distraction has existed for years:

-External--distractions like at a coffee house, or any interruption

-Internal--trains of thought that just goes on and on

All distraction is not equal, our ability to establish high level goals is the pinnacle of our brain evolution (or the way we were created)

Why do we crave distraction?  We are information-seeking creatures, at the very core of our being

3 principles:

1. A human mind is easily distracted.
2. Our current technolog intensifies a pre-existing condition.
3. Cultivating and sustaining attention requires deliberate effort.

Need to create FLOW

1. Goal is clear.
2. Feedback relevant.
3. Challenges and skills are balanced (feel that they can do it).
4. Collaborative social nature, so that they need to pay attention.  (Without goals and without others to interact with, students lose motivation and concentration, a wandering mind goes to unresolvable problems, even anxiety. 

How do we cultivate curiosity? (enjoyable)
-We tend to pay attention when we are curious, puzzle or mystery

How to do this:

1. Articulate the problem.
2. Explain significance or relevance.
3. Give students opportunity to answer.
4. Provide answer (could be the whole course or just a part of it).
5. Conclude with a problem or question.

Multi-tasking-- can't do it, mentioned the same study from last year (See previous blog post.)  it degrades our performance in each thing we are working on.

--Other students are distracted by your multi-tasking.

***The pathway of creativity looks a lot like the pathway to distraction.

Books he mentioned:
What the best college teachers go by Ken Bain

The ecology of attention  by Yves Citton  (information overload can turn to astonishment when confronted by the excedence of curiosity that occupies the human mind.

Make it stick: The science of successful learning by Brown, et al

PART TWO

"Using prediction to increase comprehension"

Small teaching interventions

--brief (5-15 min.) interventions into individual learning sessions

--limited number of interventions or activities over the entire course

--minor changes to course design, assessment structure or communication with students

Activate prior learning:

--prompt them to write essay or presentation on learning from prior courses

--definitions or explanations

--discipline-based autobiographical reflections

e.g. for me: What have you learned so far about research for this subject?

Best way to learn/study:

Low utility

--summarization

--highlighting

--underlining

Medium utitility

--elaborate interrogation

--interleaved practice

--self-explanation (students explain it to their neighbor)

High Utility

--practice testing (!)

--distributed testing

PART THREE
"Giving Feedback that builds motivation"

Growth Mindset

What is the best way to encourage your child/student?

A. Praise for their natural ability

B. Praise for their effort and strategies 

Answer is B

A fixed mindset means that we think our IQ was stamped on our forehead.

A growth mindset means we believe we are capable of getting smarter.

We tend to have both, especially in different areas.

Our attitude toward learning greatly influences our actual learning.

Mindsets can be changed.

Normalize help-seeking behaviors (important for librarians, encourage students to ask for help with research, etc.)

Promote active study strategies.

His column is in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Small changes in teaching

Teaching Learning Day (2018)

Adult Motivation -- relevance is very important

Teaching Naked

1. Build upon prior knowledge.. how know? Just ask them.
2. The average  human attention span typically maxes out around 15 min. 
3. Humans do not fully become self-regulating until around age 25.
4. Successful multi-tasking when two tasks require cognitive attention is not possible.
   See: Sana, Weston, Cepeda. "Laptop multitasking hingers classroom learning for both users and nearby peers" i Computers and Education, 62:24-31. 2013.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2012.10.003
5. Performance and Feedback are important.
6. Social interaction (Constructivism)
7. Recall promotes learning
8. Cognitive processing "processing" of learning material tend to resulrt in greater learning gains.

Solid basic formula:

1. Design instruction based on human cognition.
2. Build upon prior knowledge.
3. Leverage social learning opportunities.
4. Performance with feedback
5. Foster recall
6. Promote processing.

** Failure is important