Year: 2010

Over and over again, I find that people’s mental model of who can see what doesn’t match up with reality. People think “everyone” includes everyone who searches for them on Facebook. They never imagine that “everyone” includes every third party sucking up data for goddess only knows what purpose. They think that if they lock down everything in the settings that they see, that they’re completely locked down. They don’t get that their friends lists, interests, likes, primary photo, affiliations, and other content is publicly accessible.

apophenia Â» Blog Archive Â» Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)

Exactly. 

Speaking to my students about privacy and 6 degrees never seems to hit home.

I should do more demonstrations of how Facebook’s default privacy settings really does expose them in ways they don’t immediately realize.

Find out what basic safety equipment is in the lab. This affects what kind of activities you can plan. Ask ahead of time if notebooks and other consumable materials have been ordered. Once the school year starts, it’s often hard to get things that are not in inventory. Ask what technology will available to you in the classroom, such as an interactive white board, “clickers,” probeware, cameras, or projection attachments for microscopes. If the school does not provide a laptop you can take home, invest in some USB flash drives you can use to take files to work on at home.

Question from a new teacher

Very relevant and timely info for those of our species lucky enough to be entering the teaching profession but that have no clue what they’re in for…