Following is a list of things BruinTechs should know and share with others:
1. Event: UC Love Data Week
February 14-18, 2022
UC Love Data Week is a week-long offering of presentations and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation. All members of the University of California community are welcome to attend. Make sure to register with your UC-campus email. Check it out.
2. How much do students learn when they double the speed of their class videos?
Recorded lectures have become a routine part of course instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, and college students often try to pack more learning into a shorter span by watching these recordings at double their normal speed or even faster. But does comprehension suffer as a result? Continue reading.
3. Data Privacy Day: Panel Discussion
Join the UC Campus Privacy Officers in celebrating Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2022 at noon, with a panel discussion between UC data and privacy experts who will be discussing the film, The Social Dilemma, the future of data, what UC’s role should be (if any) in solving the social dilemma, and how viewers can take active steps to better control their data and the data entrusted to them by the UC Community. Register here.
4. Encryption: UK data watchdog criticises government campaign
The No Place to Hide campaign says Facebook should abandon plans for end-to-end encryption in its Messenger app, saying it helps to hide child abuse.
But the Information Commissioner's Office argues the technology strengthens children's online safety.
A delay "leaves everyone at risk, including children," it told the BBC. Continue reading.
5. Twitter Thread: A Philosopher's Take on Wordle
OK, so I was curious, and I played Wordle. And I have a theory about why it's so successful. The design is ingenious in a very particular way
This is a philosopher of games' theory of Wordle. A thread: Read the whole Twitter thread.
