I wasn’t really sure what I expected to find when I mapped my online network. I was also unsure of which network to focus on. I decided against trying to visually represent my largest network, Facebook, because it is not as important to me as a professional. The people I connect with on Facebook I do not want to have impacting my digital reach as a professional, though in saying that I suppose I am a bit naive to believe that to actually be the case. I have a digital voice as an everyday person, and I have a voice as a professional. I have also, on occasion, made that voice heard on Facebook, though I am now wilfully trying to stop this practice, hence its seclusion here. Continue reading The Connectedness of Being
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Understanding Digital Literacy in pursuit of Digital Me
As a high school social studies, and language arts teacher, I deal a fair bit with the study of humanity. How did we get here? Where are we going? And, why are we in this hand-basket? A point that I stress to my students in various different contexts is that we are living through a very significant moment in human history. I tell them that just as we currently study the Industrial Revolution, the students of the future will study this period in history, commonly referred to as The Digital Revolution, in much the same way. Where we currently look at the importance of the spinning jenny to the textile industry, they will look at the advent of the personal computer and its effect on communication, learning, and society in general. This will lead to a discussion of related technologies and the dawn of the age of connectivity. Continue reading Understanding Digital Literacy in pursuit of Digital Me
Organising and Citing Scholarly Research Using Chrome Extensions: A Video-tutorial
Hello fellow #RRUMALAT cohorts!
Although only a couple of weeks in, I am already finding the need to get myself organised as far as my research and citations go. I am already bogged down with article storage and citations, but I have a hack.
I have created this video-tutorial that outlines the usage of two Google Chrome extensions that I have found useful. I hope you find it useful! I welcome any feedback, happy researching!
Resident Visitor Mapping
I had been aware of the concept of digital natives, and digital immigrants (Prensky, 2001), and was aware that I was and always would be the latter. So when I initially approached this assignment, I approached thinking that digital immigrant was synonymous with a certain degree of digital ineptitude that I would never be able to overcome. After reading “The Resident Visitor Typology” (White and Le Cornu, 2011) I came to a new understanding, and my the self discovery of the “digital me” was profound, and I am now seeing myself in a new way, and am conscious of trying to keep certain elements of my personal resident-visitor typology hidden, and make others more public.
Reflections on LRNT 521 Symposiums: Openness is the Way forward!
I am excited to get going on this journey at long last! The most surprising thing for me in this first week was learning about the wide variety of applications for technology integration there exists in the economy, and the variety in scope and sequence for research opportunities further down the road. I forgot that the name of our program is both learning, and technology. I had initially ignored the latter, or rather I did not think of it in the way it has been presented to me this week. I just thought that I was going to blast forward with all sorts of new technological ideas and gadgets and that I would be at the leading edge of ed-tech by the time I finished my, what is sure to be ground-breaking, research in year two!
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