(토요모임) [25th Mar. 2017] Saturday meeting Topic

[Scarlet]

Howdy ! 

It's me Scarlett !   

This week we have 3 topics. 

◈ Tech. issue : Germany warns social media firms over illegal content

----------- 8 digital life skills all children need – and a plan for teaching them

◈ Happiness : Denmark has the best work-life balance. Here’s why

----------- Goodbye, maths and English. Hello, teamwork and communication?

◈ Self development  

----------- Ditch Facebook And Make Yourself Smarter With These 10 Hottest Learning Sites

----------- How Much Time Do People Spend on Social Media?

Hope you enjoy the topics. 

With luv 

Scarlett

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Germany warns social media firms over illegal content

14 March 2017/  From the section Technology

Social media firms in Germany could face fines of up to 50 million euros if they take too long to remove illegal content including fake news.

Germany's justice minister has drafted a law that seeks to impose the fines as part of efforts to police toxic chat.

Heiko Maas said the voluntary efforts of social networks to tackle the problem had not gone far enough.

The proposal requires sites to run 24-hour helplines and to delete flagged content within seven days.

'Utterly impossible'

Social media firms such as Twitter and Facebook were getting better at handling illegal content, said Mr Maas, but both had a long way to go.

Mr Maas quoted research which suggested Twitter deletes only 1% of the hate speech it is told about by users, and Facebook, 39%.

"This isn't sufficient yet," said Mr Maas.

Racism and hate speech are believed to have become more preval‎ent on German social media following the arrival of large number of refugees in Germany.

Any content that was "clearly criminal" would have to be removed within 24 hours under conditions outlined in the draft law. If, after an investigation, content is found to be criminal then that must be removed in seven days. The people who posted the illegal content must also be told about its deletion.

The proposed law would require each network to run fully staffed, round-the-clock reporting systems and to name an individual responsible for handling complaints. That person could face an individually levied fine of five million euros if companies break laws governing what can be published.

Mr Maas said the law could apply to fake news articles if they proved to be slanderous, defamatory or libellous.

Facebook did not comment directly on the proposal but said tests it commissioned showed it removed a higher percentage of illegal content than Mr Maas claimed. The social network said it expected to have 700 people employed in Berlin by the end of 2017 overseeing its efforts to review flagged content.

German digital trade association Bitkom criticised the proposed law. It told the Financial Times that the requirement to remove material within 24 hours on sites that handle more than one billion posts per day was "utterly impossible to implement in operational terms".

Article source : http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39269535

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8 digital life skills all children need – and a plan for teaching them

Written by Yuhyun Park/ Chair, infollutionZERO Foundation

Published Tuesday 6 September 2016

A generation ago, IT and digital media were niche skills. Today, they are a core competency necessary to succeed in most careers.

That’s why digital skills are an essential part of a comprehensive education framework. Without a national digital education programme, command of and access to technology will be distributed unevenly, exacerbating inequality and hindering socio-economic mobility.

 What’s your DQ?

The challenge for educators is to move beyond thinking of IT as a tool, or “IT-enabled education platforms”. Instead, they need to think about how to nurture students’ ability and confidence to excel both online and offline in a world where digital media is ubiquitous.

Like IQ or EQ – which we use to measure someone’s general and emotional intelligence – an individual’s facility and command of digital media is a competence that can be measured. We call it DQ: digital intelligence. And the good news is that DQ is an intelligence that is highly adaptive.

DQ can broadly be broken down into three levels:

Level 1: Digital citizenship

The ability to use digital technology and media in safe, responsible and effective ways

Level 2: Digital creativity

The ability to become a part of the digital ecosystem by co-creating new content and turning ideas into reality by using digital tools

Level 3: Digital entrepreneurship

The ability to use digital media and technologies to solve global challenges or to create new opportunities

 Why are we neglecting digital citizenship?

Of the three, digital creativity is the least neglected, as more and more schools attempt to provide children with some exposure to media literacy, coding and even robotics, all of which are seen as directly related to future employability and job creation. Likewise, there are major education initiatives – from America’s code.org to Africa’s IamTheCode.org – that promote access to coding education.

Digital entrepreneurship has also been actively encouraged, particularly in tertiary education. Many top universities have adopted and developed new courses or initiatives such as technopreneurship and entrepreneurship hackathons to encourage a culture of innovation. We’re even starting to see global movements that nurture social entrepreneurship among children through mentoring programmes – such as the Mara Foundation – and school programmes, like with the Ashoka Changemaker School.

But digital citizenship has often been overlooked by educators and leaders. This is in spite of the fact it is fundamental to a person’s ability to use technology and live in the digital world, a need which arises from a very young age. A child should start learning digital citizenship as early as possible, ideally when one starts actively using games, social media or any digital device.

 The digital skills our children should learn

Educators tend to think children will pick up these skills by themselves or that these skills should be nurtured at home. However, due to the digital generation gap, with generation Z being the first to truly grow up in the era of smartphones and social media, neither parents nor teachers know how to adequately equip children with these skills.

Young children are all too often exposed to cyber risks such as technology addiction, cyberbullying and grooming. They can also absorb toxic behavioural norms that affect their ability to interact with others. And while most children encounter such challenges, the problematic exposure is amplified for vulnerable children, including those with special needs, minorities and the economically disadvantaged. They tend to not only be more frequently exposed to risk, but also face more severe outcomes.

So what skills should we be teaching our children as part of their digital citizenship? In the research we’ve done on this matter, we’ve identified eight in particular.

     

1. Digital citizen identity: the ability to build and manage a healthy identity online and offline with integrity

2. Screen time management: the ability to manage one’s screen time, multitasking, and one’s engagement in online games and social media with self-control

3. Cyberbullying management: the ability to detect situations of cyberbullying and handle them wisely

4. Cybersecurity management: the ability to protect one’s data by creating strong passwords and to manage various cyberattacks

5. Privacy management: the ability to handle with discretion all personal information shared online to protect one’s and others’ privacy

6. Critical thinking: the ability to distinguish between true and false information, good and harmful content, and trustworthy and questionable contacts online

7. Digital footprints: The ability to understand the nature of digital footprints and their real-life consequences and to manage them responsibly

8. Digital empathy: the ability to show empathy towards one’s own and others’ needs and feelings online

 What a quality digital education looks like

A quality digital citizenship education must include opportunities for assessment and feedback. The assessment tools should be comprehensive as well as adaptive in order to eval‎uate not only hard but also soft DQ skills. Ultimately, such assessments should serve as a means of providing feedback that gives children a better understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses, so that they may find their own paths to success.

Ultimately, national leaders need to understand the importance of digital citizenship as the foundation of digital intelligence. National education leaders should make it a priority to implement digital citizenship programmes as part of an overall DQ education framework.

Most importantly, individuals should initiate digital citizenship education in their own sphere of influence: parents in their homes, teachers in their classes, and leaders in their communities.

There is no need to wait. In fact, there is no time to wait. Children are already immersed in the digital world and are influencing what that world will look like tomorrow. It is up to us to ensure that they are equipped with the skills and support to make it a place where they can thrive.

This post is a follow up to the 8 digital skills we must teach our children

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/09/8-digital-life-skills-all-children-need-and-a-plan-for-teaching-them?utm_content=buffer6d09e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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<Questions>

Q1. Have you ever heard about "fake news"? How do you think about that? 

Q2. Have you ever been suffered by bad replies or harassment on the web site? How did you deal with that?

Q3. Do you think social media company have responsibility to maintain illegal contents over their website? 

Q4. Have you ever heard about DQ(Digital intelligence)? What’s your DQ?

Q5. According to an article, we need to be involved in education initiatives for our future employ ability and job creation. In this point, are you join any kinds of programs to develop digital creativity? For instance, media literacy, coding and robotics? 

Q6. This article suggest 8 skills should be trained by us to be a successful digital citizen. How many items did you acquire from the belows? 

1. Digital citizen identity: the ability to build and manage a healthy identity online and offline with integrity

2. Screen time management: the ability to manage one’s screen time, multitasking, and one’s engagement in online games and social media with self-control

3. Cyberbullying management: the ability to detect situations of cyberbullying and handle them wisely

4. Cybersecurity management: the ability to protect one’s data by creating strong passwords and to manage various cyberattacks

5. Privacy management: the ability to handle with discretion all personal information shared online to protect one’s and others’ privacy

6. Critical thinking: the ability to distinguish between true and false information, good and harmful content, and trustworthy and questionable contacts online

7. Digital footprints: The ability to understand the nature of digital footprints and their real-life consequences and to manage them responsibly

8. Digital empathy: the ability to show empathy towards one’s own and others’ needs and feelings online

     

Q7. Do you have any friends or acquaintances who have issues in terms of screen time management or digital citizen identity? 

Q8. Do you think our education system have assessment and feedback procedure for students' better understanding of their strength and weaknesses? 

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Denmark has the best work-life balance. Here’s why

Written by Alex Gray/ Formative Content/ Published Friday 17 March 2017

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark," goes the line in Shakespeare's Hamlet. But four centuries after the play was written, the analysis couldn't be less accurate. According to the OECD Better Life report, Danes have a better work-life balance than any other country surveyed.

Only 2% of employees regularly work very long hours, which isn't much when you compare it with the OECD average of 13%. Instead, they spend around two-thirds of their day (16 hours) eating, sleeping and indulging in leisurely pursuits.

It's not just the workers: Danes rank above average in an intimidatingly long list of areas: environmental quality, civic engagement, education, skills, jobs, earnings, well-being, personal security and social connections.

That last area, social support networks, is key: 96% of people report having friends or relatives they can count on in times of trouble, compared with the 88% across other OECD countries.

Air quality in Denmark is also better than the OECD average (in scientific terms that translates as 11.1 micrograms of PM2.5 pollution per cubic metre, as opposed to 14.05 elsewhere).

Danes are unusually engaged in the political process – voter turnout stands at 86% and is among the highest in the OECD. They’re also well educated: 80% of adults aged 25-64 have completed upper-secondary education. That's four percentage points higher than the OECD average.

Work-life balance

According to the Danes themselves, the key is to prioritize life over work. And when they are at work, they enjoy a high degree of flexibility. They can often choose when they start their working day and have the option of working from home. The lunch break is often at a designated time each day, enabling colleagues to interact and eat together, thus enabling them to leave their desks. There is a minimum five weeks’ paid holiday for all earners.

However, working fewer hours doesn’t mean they do less. Researchers at the OECD found that overly long working days actually reduce productivity.

Danish lifestyle choices are reflected in their attitudes, as recorded by the survey. When you look at what is important to Danish citizens, jobs and income are much lower down the list than health, education, the environment and work-life balance.

According to one Dane, the nation's attitude to money differs from that of other countries:

“Money is not as important in the social life here as, for example, Britain and America. We probably spend our money differently. We don’t buy big houses or big cars, we like to spend our money on socializing with others,” says Professor of Economics Christian Bjørnskov from Aarhus Business School.

There's one significant trade-off: Danes pay high taxes. But according to a recent Bloomberg report, they don’t mind. That’s because those taxes go towards paying for the country’s welfare state, which they treasure.

It’s no surprise then, that the Danes report the highest levels of life satisfaction of all surveyed countries.

Denmark was also ranked first in the World Happiness Report 2013, third in the World Happiness Report 2015, and first again in the World Happiness Report 2016 Update.

Is there anything Denmark doesn’t do well?

Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, no country is in entirely perfect health. Apart from anti-diabetic medication, Danes consume more pharmaceuticals than the OECD average, including antidepressants.

The OECD says that Denmark could be doing more to help its low-skilled and low-wage workers. The gap between rich and poor is high – the top 20% of the population earns nearly four times as much as the bottom 20%.

Denmark needs to lure more skilled workers to its shores if it’s to prop up its economic growth, particularly in the areas of engineering and science.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/denmark-best-work-life-balance-oecd?utm_content=bufferc3759&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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<Questions>

Q1. What is the main ingredients of your happiness? 

Q2. When do you feel happiness in your daily routine? How about at work? 

Q3. According to an article, Danish citizens think jobs and income are much lower down the list than health, education, the environment and work-life balance. How about you? What is the most important priority in your life? 

Q4. Do you consume any pharmaceuticals? Why?

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Goodbye, maths and English. Hello, teamwork and communication?

Written by Alex Gray/ Formative Content/ Published Thursday 16 February 2017

It’s no longer enough to fill your CV with impressive grades. Employers are looking beyond qualifications to figure out what other skills their candidates have.

Cognitive skills in topics like maths and English have long been used as to measure the calibre of a job candidate. But a report by The Hamilton Project, an economic think-tank, says that non-cognitive skills are also integral to educational performance and success at work – and are becoming increasingly so.

Non-cognitive skills are your “soft skills”: things like how well you can communicate, how well you work with others, how well you lead a team and how self-motivated you are.

The report says that, to a certain extent, those soft skills inevitably depend on people's personality: “some individuals have an inherently easier time getting along with others” for example. They are also closely linked to the level of education a person has received, as well as that of their parents.

However, these skills can also be taught, says the report.

Not enough skills

The Hamilton Project referenced a survey of hiring managers in the US, which suggests that they are just as worried about finding people with the right non-cognitive skills as with more traditional and measurable abilities.

“While fewer than 20% of hiring managers said that recent graduates lacked the math skills needed for the work, more than half said that recent graduates lacked attention to detail. About equal shares of hiring managers saw deficiencies in writing proficiency and communication—the cognitive and non-cognitive aspects, respectively, of a single skill. About a third of hiring managers said recent college graduates lacked data analysis and teamwork skills,” says the report.

 Why is this important?

The Hamilton Project argues that non-cognitive skills are crucial for the labour market for four key economic reasons.

1. Today’s jobs demand more non-cognitive skills than they did in the past.

This graph shows that tasks that involved working with or for people – requiring better non-cognitive skills - are substantially more important today than they were in the 1980s and 1990s. Tasks such as social skills and service skills have grown by 16 and 17% respectively, while tasks that require high levels of maths have only grown by 5%.

2. The labour market increasingly rewards non-cognitive skills.

These charts show the link between salary and both types of skills.

 Figure 2   Image: The Hamilton Project/Brookings

3. And the more likely they are to be in full time employment.

These two bar charts show how, as non-cognitive and cognitive skills go up, so do earnings and the probability of full-time employment. This is unsurprising, but the data also shows how non-cognitive skills have become much more important over time.

 Figure 3   Image: The Hamilton Project/Brookings

4. Those with fewer non-cognitive skills are being left behind.

This final chart shows that almost all of those who are in the top 25% in non-cognitive skills complete high school, and more than half complete a degree.

 Figure 4   Image: The Hamilton Project/Brookings

 Leaving qualifications behind

Some companies are indeed bypassing qualifications altogether and using their own methods of assessing a candidate. In 2015 the global accountancy firm Ernst & Young said that they were going to use their in-house assessment programme and numeracy tests. “At EY we are modernising the workplace, challenging traditional thinking and ways of doing things. Transforming our recruitment process will open up opportunities for talented individuals regardless of their background and provide greater access to the profession,” says the company.

The World Economic Forum Future of Jobs report argues that emotional intelligence, creativity, and people management will be among the top skills needed for jobs in 2020. “Change won’t wait for us: business leaders, educators and governments all need to be proactive in up-skilling and retraining people so everyone can benefit from the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” the report states.

Article source : https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/02/employers-are-going-soft-the-skills-companies-are-looking-for?utm_content=buffer41647&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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<Questions>

Q1. What is the most required skill to be successful in your work place ?

Q2. Are you a sociable person? 

Q3. Do you keep any activities to build up your team spirit? How do you enjoy it? 

Q4. What is your main skill at work? Do you think your major skills can be substituted by robots? 

Q5. The world economic forum suggested that emotional intelligence, creativity, and people management will be among the top skills needed for jobs in 2020. Do you have any talents which you are committing excellence to among them? 

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Ditch Facebook And Make Yourself Smarter With These 10 Hottest Learning Sites

Chloe Chong/ Editor at Lifehack, Social Media Expert, Health Nut

The average person spends nearly two hours every day on social media.[1] Think about it, what will we achieve when we spend these two hours on something else? Let’s say, study a new language? Or pick up a skill? Below are 10 best websites other than social media that can make you smarter and largely improve your life.

1. Unplug The TV

Each time you visit this site, it generates a new video for you to watch and become smarter. Try to watch the whole video even if the topic doesn’t seem to be interesting to you. By learning more about unfamiliar topics you’re enlarging your comfort zone and widening your perspective.

2. Skillshare

The classes are taught by expert practitioners. No more theories. No more empty promises. The skills they teach are really applicable and useful.

3. University of the People

As a non-profit making organization, it offers a wide range of tuition-free courses from associate degrees to graduate degrees.

4. High Brow

Once you subscribe to it, it will send you 5-minute long courses on various subjects to your inbox every day. Easy to digest and interesting.

5. Investopedia

Investment and finance seem to be really difficult topics? Even if we like it or not, finance does affect our every aspect of life. Learn more about it from the team of data scientists and financial experts on the site.

6. Brain pump

This site covers interesting and less-known knowledge that you would seldom see on social media. Not all of them would be practical for your life but for sure it will make you become more creative and a funnier person.

7. Spreeder 

The slower you read, the less insights you gain, and the slower you’ll grow than others. Catch up with this tool that helps you digest everything faster. Just paste the text you’d like to read, then it’ll guide you to read faster and gradually yet effectively improve your overall reading speed.

8. Coursera

It offers lots of free courses which have great reputation. Its specializations are data science, machine learning, etc.

9. Hemingway Editor

Everybody writes, even if you’re not a writer. This site is like your free tutor who would point out which parts of your sentenced can be tuned to instantly improve the whole piece after you paste the text on it. Some common advice it gives is to avoid passive voice and lengthy sentences.

10. edX

This site features a number of courses from various universities from around the world. As of December 2016, it already got 10 million students taking more than 1,270 courses online.

Article source : http://www.lifehack.org/564852/websites-that-will-make-you-smarter-and-smarter?ref=fbp&n=1

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How Much Time Do People Spend on Social Media?

January 04, 2017 Evan Asano

The amount of time people spend on social media is constantly increasing. Teens now spend up to nine hours a day on social platforms, while 30% of all time spent online is now allocated to social media interaction. And the majority of that time is on mobile - 60% of social media time spent is facilitated by a mobile device.

The social media platforms themselves are evolving their tools and options to further attract and engage new audiences (e.g. advent of live-streaming features and 360-degree photos/videos). Newer social platforms, including Snapchat, Instagram, and now Musical.ly, are also competing for their share of the market. Accordingly, brands are jumping into social media with social media ad spend expected to reach $36 billion in 2017.

To give marketers a better understanding of the social media landscape, we calculated the time spent across the most popular social media platforms, projected what it means within a consumer’s lifetime, and compared these figures against common daily activities and examples of what can be accomplished with an equivalent amount of time (e.g. walk the Great Wall of China 3.5x, and run 10K+ marathons).

Astonishingly, the average person will spend nearly two hours (approximately 116 minutes) on social media everyday, which translates to a total of 5 years and 4 months spent over a lifetime. Even more, time spent on social is only expected to increase as platforms develop, and is expected to eat further into traditional media - most notably TV. Right now, the average person will spend 7 years and 8 months watching TV in a lifetime. However, as digital media consumption continues to grow at unprecedented rates, this number is expected to shrink in counter to that expansion.

Currently, total time spent on social media beats time spent eating and drinking, socializing, and grooming.

Broken down, time spent on social media differs across each platform. YouTube comes in first, consuming over 40 minutes of a person’s day (i.e. 1 year and 10 months in a lifetime). Facebook users will spend an average of 35 minutes a day, totalling 1 year and 7 months in a lifetime (some statistics include Facebook, Facebook-owned Instagram, and Facebook Messenger for total time spent on Facebook). Snapchat and Instagram come in next with 25 minutes and 15 minutes spent per day, respectively. Finally, users will spend 1 minute on Twitter, spanning 18 days of usage in a lifetime.

Article source : http://www.socialmediatoday.com/marketing/how-much-time-do-people-spend-social-media-infographic

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<Questions>

Q1. How long do you usually use social media each day? Why? 

Q2. What do you do in your free time? What is the main purpose of your activity? 

Q3. Do you have any learning site recommendations for self development? 

Q4. Above article suggested 10 hottest learning sites where make you smarter. Could you pick 3 sites you want to try? Why did you choose them?      

1. Unplug The TV 2. Skillshare 3. University of the People

4. High Brow 5. Investopedia 6. Brain pump 7. Spreeder

8. Coursera 9. Hemingway Editor 10. edX