{"id":245,"date":"2021-04-26T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T01:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0202\/?p=245"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T23:50:40","slug":"digital-identity-digital-presence-didp-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0202\/digital-identity-digital-presence-didp-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Identity Digital Presence (DIDP) Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

My ultimate goal and purpose in cultivating my digital identity and presence throughout the MALAT program is to enhance my skills and practices as an educator working in an increasingly technological world.\u00a0 Embedded within this goal, I aim to develop my expertise in the area of digital literacies, so that I can best guide my students in becoming digitally literate life-long learners (Ryberg & Georgsen, 2010).<\/span><\/p>\n

It is necessary to push myself out of the zone of being primarily a visitor into developing a resident presence (White & Le Cornu, 2011) that combines both my personal and professional identities.\u00a0 Historically, my inclination has been to keep these identities strictly separated, especially in digital environments, and I wonder if this has to be the case moving forward.\u00a0 Kelly Schryver\u2019s New York Times blog post explores the challenges of determining identity on the web, and which versions of ourselves we choose to be online (2013).\u00a0 I ask: is it necessary to have to make that choice?\u00a0 My personal philosophy has been to live a life in which I am respectful, communicative, and considerate of others, while also standing for the things that are worth believing in.\u00a0 These are characteristics that can easily be transferred to a digital setting.\u00a0 Furthermore, as a K-12 educator and parent of young children, modelling positive digital citizenship can have a huge impact on the young people I interact with.\u00a0 Combining my personal values with a public teacher persona to cultivate a positive digital presence and identity is an opportunity to lead by example.<\/span><\/p>\n

Audrey Watters writes that \u201cit is important to have one\u2019s own space in order to develop one\u2019s ideas and one\u2019s craft\u201d (2015).\u00a0 This is further supported by David White and Alison Le Cornu in their statement that \u201cA blog post is as much an expression of identity as it is a discussion of particular ideas\u201d (2011).\u00a0 This led to the decision that developing a presence on Twitter, and actively contributing to my MALAT blog and the blogs of my classmates, would be the best course of action to achieve my goals.\u00a0 It will be possible to make connections beyond my current K-12 education networks through active communication and interaction with my fellow MALAT classmates in a public domain – our blogs.\u00a0 By tracking my interactions, I hope to develop relationships and engage with every single one of my classmates throughout the program.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a number of skills and knowledge gaps that will be addressed as I progress as a MALAT student:<\/span><\/p>\n