A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a service that secures your connection to the internet by assigning you another IP address and masking your real one. Then, while connected to the VPN, all of your internet traffic is sent through a secure (encrypted) tunnel that no one can gain access to. So, that means all […]
As mentioned in A New Culture of Learning, for something to be considered a “remix” you have to change 3 major components of the work and you have to make it better. I agree with this and see no issue in remixing work in order to promote innovation, as long as proper credit is given […]
Getting through a little over half the book A New Culture of Learning by Douglas Thomas and John Sealy Brown, they make a point that the twenty-first century belongs to the tacit. This is because in today’s world we can learn almost anything by searching for ourselves and gaining experience from trying it. The process […]
From the Pew Research Center, writers Lee Rainie and Janna Anderson analyze some pros and cons that algorithms may provide, in the article “Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age”. Usually, I don’t like thinking about the pros/cons of algorithms (at least in today’s machine-learning/AI use of the word) because I find myself completely split […]
Reading about privacy this week got me all jazzed up, and I began to think about my own efforts to protect my privacy in today’s tech-fueled world. Big data collection is a huge effort in-and-of itself because you have to be consciously thinking about every choice you make or website you visit online and what […]
After reading and learning about the good work of the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA), I was still completely shocked that I had never heard of it before. I’ve read the books multiple times, watched the movies even more times, and have also visited the Wizarding World of HP. This is something I could completely see […]
For this week’s play I decided to shift my focus to a cause I’m very passionate about, women in tech. There is so much to explore with this subject, workplace environment, job opportunities, discoveries and advancements in the field, sexism, and implicit bias to name a few. I created a comic for my play that […]
