{"id":245,"date":"2021-04-27T19:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0204\/?p=245"},"modified":"2021-05-01T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:25:48","slug":"digital-identity-and-digital-presence-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0204\/digital-identity-and-digital-presence-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Identity and Digital Presence Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Educators consider the end in mind, or backward design, when planning. It is a useful strategy that encompasses setting goals, to scaffold learning, and to reach specific outcomes. The following is the result of a backward-design plan. During the process of achieving this specific set of learning outcomes, I will conscientiously construct and reconstruct my digital identity and my digital presence. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I create this plan mindful of the spaces I hold as an educator. As I create, I think of an excerpt from Marie Battiste\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: .5in;text-indent: -.5in\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\nEvery school is either a site of reproduction or a site of change. In other words, education can be liberating, or it can domesticate and maintain domination. It can sustain colonization in neo-colonial ways or it can decolonize. (p. 168)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I plan to set myself up for success through active and authentic participation in a variety of learning opportunities and through ongoing self-reflection. I <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">think of myself as an educator who navigates digital literacies while exercising mindful deployment of my attention (Rheingold, 2010). In doing so, I will be able to set and achieve short term goals while remaining focused on my long term goals throughout this course.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I set out to achieve the following goals, affording myself opportunity to reposition the order as I grow through my MALAT and educator experiences:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That my interactions in digital spaces are intentional and meaningful for the creation of my digital identity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That I carry these understandings with me as I move through the MALAT program.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That I incorporate these understandings to the development of my digital identity as a researcher, where I am able to focus my energies to affect change both personally and professionally.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To develop and incorporate a holistic approach to education that has intentional focus on well-being.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To actively and authentically engage in digital content and digital spaces in order to facilitate meaning for myself, my students and my communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To actively and authentically engage in learning and teaching pedagogy by developing fluency in the various intersections of ICTs in order to expand my understanding of digital literacies and affect change for students.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To affect change in educational policy, with a focus on equitable access to education for all, specifically with access to technology in municipal and\/or provincial education systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The process will be critical. I will endeavour to maintain a balanced approach to the MALAT program that will include self-care, organization, and reflection. I will have to create boundaries for my interactions in digital spaces, and limit my engagement. I will include design thinking and holistic practice into my pedagogy. I will lead by example by modelling my own cyberinfrastructure (Campbell, 2009), helping students create online portfolios or digital domains (Watters, 2015). My interaction with digital tools will have to increase, as I increase my networking with various stakeholders. For example, my engagement on Twitter and LinkedIn will have to increase from visitor to resident (White &amp; Le Cornu, 2011); I am only now beginning to network through LinkedIn and learning about the usefulness of this platform. I will keep an open-mind and apply a growth mindset (Dweck, 2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Knowledge-acquisition, knowledge-facilitation, and knowledge-consolidation are a large part of teaching practice and pedagogy, yet they depend on the construct of knowledge and this construct can alter with context. I aspire to maintain a growth mindset for the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MALAT and discussions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Symposiums and Webinars<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shared stories: lived experiences of students, community members, and colleagues<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Organization, time-management and reflection will provide the structure for these outcomes. I will continue to modify sub-goals to interact with specific outcomes pertaining to my overall goal. In order to accomplish this, I have and will continue to set specific dates to check-in on goal-setting and well-being. These check-ins will align with course schedules and work schedules, as well as personal commitments. They will be weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually. I will use various tools to log outcomes, such as Google Keep and Google Calendar. Reflection will be ongoing, evaluative, and meaningful, so that I may adapt and evolve along with new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), in order to apply my understanding (Beetham, 2015).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a virtual school teacher, I have endeavoured to understand the scope of instruction in a digital space through a variety of digital tools and media, while centring the student in my pedagogy and in my practice. My skill set is wide-ranging and includes: reflective practice, fluency in a variety of ICTs, and comfort in a variety of digital media. I endeavour to expand my understanding of the digital literacies within the education sector, to include student engagement through digital portfolios or, when possible, personal digital domains (Waters, 2015).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have learned that at the top of a very long list of values that make up a happy, productive classroom environment are respect, care, and trust. I have learned that these values transfer to digital spaces. Mutual respect, care for others and trust manifest through authentic shared experiences, and are crucial to meaningful collaboration and to the establishment and sustainability of psychologically safe spaces. In a safe space, students flourish, and the opportunities for growth are endless. It is through the utilization of these skills and the varied contexts the teaching profession provides, that I am able to set my goals and to seek solutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Part of growth is recognizing one\u2019s strengths and one\u2019s weaknesses. Among many of my knowledge gaps are: research on equitable access to technology and to the internet, <a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/resources\/what-open-education\">Open Source Education<\/a> and Open Education Resources (OERs), and <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/\">Creative Commons<\/a> Licensing. I have only skimmed the surface of the potential of these areas of interest, and I look forward to unpacking what they have to offer with respect to my learning outcomes. I have considered the following strategies and approaches to address these gaps: research scholarly articles and consult with stakeholders invested in these areas of interest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My measures of success will reflect on my engagement in digital spaces. As I embark on new approaches to my engagement, my digital identity and my digital presence will evolve. My engagement will afford interactions and new connections to various stakeholders in education. Through these interactions, I will expand upon my research and understand where to best commit my energies. As I monitor specific outcomes over the next two years, my engagement with stakeholders in various digital spaces will grow, and by association my understanding of my research. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I look forward to what comes next.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><b>References:<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\nBattiste, M., &amp; Bouvier, R. (2017). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Canada: UBC Press.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beetham, H. (2015, Nov 10).<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Building capability for new digital leadership, pedagogy and efficiency.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org\/wp\/2015\/11\/10\/framing-digital-capabilities-for-staff-deliverables\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> https:\/\/digitalcapability.jiscinvolve.org\/wp\/2015\/11\/10\/framing-digital-capabilities-for-staff-deliverables\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Campbell, G. (2009)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A personal cyberinfrastructure. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Educause Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">44<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(5), 58-59.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2009\/9\/a-personal-cyberinfrastructure\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-size: 10pt\">https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2009\/9\/a-personal-cyberinfrastructure<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dweck, C. (2019). What having a \u201cgrowth mindset\u201d actually means. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvard Business Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2019 Special Issue, P26<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rheingold, H. (2010). Attention, and other 21st-century social media literacies. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Educause Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">45<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(5), 14-24. <a href=\"http:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2010\/10\/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies\">http:\/\/er.educause.edu\/articles\/2010\/10\/attention-and-other-21stcentury-social-media-literacies<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watters, A. (2015, July 15). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Web we need to give students<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <em>Bright.<\/em><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brightthemag.com\/the-web-we-need-to-give-students-311d97713713#.a2rmav7fp\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/brightthemag.com\/the-web-we-need-to-give-students-311d97713713#.a2rmav7fp<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educators consider the end in mind, or backward design, when planning. It is a useful strategy that encompasses setting goals, to scaffold learning, and to reach specific outcomes. The following is the result of a backward-design plan. 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