Aug 23, 2016
Nicole Reitz-Larsen (@reitzlarsen) is a secondary classroom teacher with 15+ years teaching experience. She has taught everything from AP/IB Computer Science, to German, Multimedia and Business related courses. She loves working with students and is passionate about equity in education and providing opportunities for all students to be successful.
She works with teachers nationwide on the CS10K.org site and with Code.org to promote the importance of computer science, assist districts in implementing computer science K-12 in schools to broaden participation of underrepresented students of color and females.
You can often find her facilitating Computer Science workshops nationwide, presenting at teacher conferences or meet ups because she loves working with educators to provide them with resources, and teaching strategies around equity and inquiry, while creating an environment that is inclusive of all students, as well as in the classroom which she calls home.
In this episode, we discussed:
Resources:
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
NEWS
Anonymous hackers some experts
believe have Russian ties released a trove of tools the National
Security Agency uses to exploit bugs on the Internet to conduct
spying operations. For years, the NSA has resisted efforts by
institutions to reveal the bugs it was exploiting so they could be
fixed. Now, those bugs are on full display for all the world to
see. Ellen Nakashima covers this story at the Washington Post and
Andy Greenberg is covering it for Wired.
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Hackers
believed to have Russian ties also got into billionaire George
Soros and his Open Society Foundations’ files last week, according
to Julian Hattem at the Hill. Two thousand documents were
released giving an inside look into how the powerful Democratic
supporter and his Foundations operate.
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Google isn’t out of the woods
yet regarding the way it scans emails to serve up ads. Google scans
not just Gmail messages, but also anyone interacting with Gmail,
from any domain. The plaintiffs sued Google in the Northern
District of California alleging that the company’s email scanning
practices violate wiretapping provisions of both the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act and California’s own state privacy laws.
Google argued the practice is within the ordinary course of
business. But
US District Judge Lucy Koh disagreed, ordering the case to move
forward. Joe Mullin covers this for Ars
Technica.
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It
looks like internet service providers are going to have to start
putting some of its users on blast for copyright infringement-even
before they have been convicted of it. The U.S. District Court for
the Eastern District of Virginia ruled last week that Cox must pay
$25 million to BMG Music for failing to notify users that they had
infringed music copyrights by participating in illegal file
sharing. BMG enlisted a 3rd party to monitor Cox’ users for
infringement and when it found infringement, notified Cox. But Cox
then prevented its users from receiving notifications.
So the court ruled Cox now owes BMG a $25 million penalty. Brian
Fung has that story at the Washington Post.
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Univision has won the bid for
Gawker Media’s bankruptcy assets. Gawker announced last week it
would be ceasing operations. The announcement was made after months
of speculation about the fate of the company, following a
devastating $140 million judgment against Gawker in favor of Hulk
Hogan. Hulk Hogan sued Gawker for posting a video showing Hogan
having sex with radio Bubba the Love Sponge’s wife. Keepin it
classy, baby! Anyway,
Univision’s bid for Gawker’s assets was $135 million, pending
approval by the Bankruptcy Court. Lukas Alpert has the story in the
Wall Street Journal.
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Finally, The DOJ and FTC are seeking comment on
proposed rules to update the guidelines we use to
license intellectual property. The comments are due September
26th.