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How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced. Services like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr are oceans of personal minutiae — birthday greetings sent and received, school and work gossip, photos of family vacations, and movies watched.
  • In social networks, people can increase their defenses against identification by adopting tight privacy controls on information in personal profiles.
  • Yet an individual’s actions, researchers say, are rarely enough to protect privacy in the interconnected world of the Internet.
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  • You may not disclose personal information, but your online friends and colleagues may do it for you, referring to your school or employer, gender, location and interests.
  • “Personal privacy is no longer an individual thing,” said Harold Abelson, the computer science professor at M.I.T.
  • people really can judge you by your friends
  • Computer scientists and policy experts say that such seemingly innocuous bits of self-revelation can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a picture of a person’s identity, sometimes down to the Social Security number.
  • By examining correlations between various online accounts, the scientists showed that they could identify more than 30 percent of the users of both Twitter, the microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing service, even though the accounts had been stripped of identifying information like account names and e-mail addresses.
  • In a paper published last year, Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross reported that they could accurately predict the full, nine-digit Social Security numbers for 8.5 percent of the people born in the United States between 1989 and 2003 — nearly five million individuals.
Ms Cuttle

Are 21st Century Skills Important? - 59 views

21st century skills
  • eric truong
     
    Yes. I do believe that 21st century skills are relevant and differ from 20th century skills. According to one article that I read, "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.". I agree with that statement, a key 21st century skill is adaptability, and in order to keep up with the constant changes we must keep adapting to the new innovations and the constantly changing world around us. Ms. Cuttle even stated that people may not even keep their jobs for more then 5 years or something, and if that is true, learning and relearning and adaptability is key.
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    In one article that I read, the one Suhaib posted, they show a image of what a 21st century class should look like. It looks like some gazebo in the middle of a forest. I feel as though that would not be as effective in teaching kids the 21st century skills because it would be too open and being outside would be too distracting from learning. I believe we should simply begin by integrating technology, such as social networking, into our curriculum, like we have in this class. It teaches students electronic literacy which is very relevant to our future lives
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    I agree with Kramay, I feel as though when teachers use new tools, such as smartboards, we are watching the teachers learn to use these tools, which is distracting.
eric truong

Canada's 10 hottest jobs: skilled trades, pharmacist, finance, dental hygienist and mor... - 4 views

  • These trades and professions are booming, so if you have the training and aptitude for one of these gigs, you can expect good money, a relative amount of job security and the knowledge that companies are vying to hire you (you hot commodity, you!).
  • 1. Financial manager
  • 2. Skilled tradesperson
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  • 3. College or vocational school teacher
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    Top 10 jobs in Canada, as of 6 months ago. Let's us see what skills can be relevant to our futures. The other seven jobs are on the following pages.
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