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Digital Identity, Access and Inclusion, and Media Literacy (including Trust and Disinformation)

March 27, 2022 / / 0 Comments

✔️ Digital Identity

I usually present myself as a resident of social media and I share my age, hobbies, and occupation(student) identity on Weibo‘s personal data page, which allow Weibo to recommend and present more relevant information of my interested topics. On Weibo, I have separate identities, and they help me reach different goals. Specifically, one is for my entertainment(my personal use), and the other one is for my studying use. Meanwhile, I do not integrate those two identities. On my Weibo’s studying account, I have subscribed many educators and teachers in different areas, such as piano technical teachers, grammar teachers, and oral English teachers. They usually share their knowledge for free, and they adopt a variety of useful methods to help the learners for all ages study in fun. Since this Weibo identity is only for my studying, Weibo homepage usually recommend some academic and educational videos, which helps me immerse myself in learning. In terms of my identity for entertainment, I use it for watching humorous videos and looking at the entertainment news and events. In addition, while Weibo is adopted for my studying and entertainment, I also use WeChat to contact my family and friends. Overall, depending on different needs, I am also a resident of other platforms.

✔️ Access and Inclusion

Weibo is a platform to help people know and get along with the like-minded people. In terms of the disabled people, they are able to send voice messages and recording their daily stories to make like-minded friends. Meanwhile, disabled people can also be a live streaming host and a daily-story sharer by posting videos, which help them earn salaries to support their life. The more views on their videos, the more money they can earn. Meanwhile, Weibo offers online shopping. Selling something on Weibo by the help of their family also allows the disabled people to engage in their community and have a good quality life. Besides, for those people who might be excluded, subscribing them and clicking the “Like” button are good ways to easily find them and their videos. At the same time, I choose to post videos rather than texting words so that even though for the disabled people can enjoy its content.

✔️ Media Literacy, Trust, and Disinformation

Weibo has content moderation policies, and anything related to pornographic, illegal, infringing and fake content will be reported and blocked by the system and auditors. At the same time, there are some trusted links and resources posted by the country’s official accounts, which is the first place to visit and acquire information. In order to avoid spreading the disinformation as misinformation, reposting the information from the convincing and official accounts and label the information reference is worthwhile to be noticed.

Wow and Wonder 4

February 14, 2022 / / 0 Comments

From the inclusion and disability perspective, inclusion concerns with an evolution of time, and what is the “real” inclusion arouses my interests a lot. That’s why I chose this topic to discuss.

Wow:

  • The evolutional timeline: Exclusion-> Segregation->Integration->Inclusion
  • Equitable access to community when learning is the goal for inclusion. Specifically, Shelley Moore and Leyton Schnellert discuss that rather than physically integrated in classes and schools, students with disabilities have equitable access to classrooms and schools, which means all students in classrooms and schools have roles and responsibilities to meaningfully connect to their peers.
  • Shelley Moore and Leyton Schnellert share their thoughts through the book(One without the other: Stories of unity through diversity and inclusion) and Youtube videos, which are useful ways to express their thoughts to the public and make more people care about the inclusion.

Wonder:

  • After inclusion, what is the next step of inclusive evolution? Or is there have another evolution happening in inclusion? I would like to investigate more a about that.

Evolution of Time

Pages 6-12 of One without the other: Stories of unity through diversity and inclusion

Videos: Transforming Inclusive Education

The Evolution of Inclusion

Showcase 1

February 14, 2022 / / 0 Comments

In “Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement“, Dave and Alison argue that technology, especially for social media, offers people digital identities; digital identities, such as a visitor and a resident of the Web, allow them to achieve their goal in communication, work, and study areas. Besides, I would like to investigate the difference between two identities and the privacy issues for digital users.

In terms of difference between two identities, I am interested in how the residents could help people in their life. Dave and Alison mention that being a resident helps people to construct social relationship with others, such as their families, friends, classmates, or even strangers with common interests. For example, people could share ideas in time by posting a blog, and they could also ask questions and make friends when using Facebook and Instagram. However, for those people who choose to be visitors of a Web, they simply seem social media as a tool to help their learning by searching relevant information without logging in it.

Furthermore, the difference between two identities also relates to people’s privacy issues. It is easier for digital residents to expose personal information, such as searching history, hobbies, and even home locations, rather than a visitor. Meanwhile, Dave and Alison argue that visitors could hide their personal information to others when they are looking at the Web. Samantha Ellis in her Wow and Wonder blog discusses that even though it is fun to contact with others as a resident, she still prefers to be a visitor because she would like to limit her private information online. I really agree with her idea to be a visitor, when we just use social media as a tool to study and know the world.

However, sometimes, it is inevitable for people to be a resident. Specifically, when people use Email to contact teachers and bosses, they are required to be a resident; when people adopt CIBC Online Banking to pay for daily fees, and even online shopping, they are residents of those social media. Jiahui Chen in her Wow and Wonder blog points out the existence of hackers. If hackers gets people’s private information, there is a serious problem. I hold with Jiahui Chen‘s thoughts. For those people who are using social media to make a payment, it is possible for hackers to steal card password and even deposits.

In a nutshell, there are difference between being a visitor and being a resident. Even though being a visitor is helpful to hide people’s private information, it is still unavoidable to be a resident when people are studying and working. Furthermore, the information exposure could lead people get into trouble.

Reference :

https://cmadland.github.io/edci338-202201/articles.html#visitors-and-residents-a-new-typology-for-online-engagement

Wow and Wonder #3
Digital Privacy
Wow and Wonder 3

Wow and Wonder 3

February 6, 2022 / / 0 Comments

In terms of online communities and activities, Visitors and Residents typology also concerns with people’s privacy issues, which arouses my interests a lot. That’s why I chose this topic to discuss.

Wow:

  • Motivations and goals could also help people decide which online identity they are belonging.
  • For those people who do not want an online identity, they could choose to be a visitor to a specific Web, which allows them to hide their personal information to others and at the same time achieve their goals. For example, taking online classes.
  • Residents use the Web to build their social relationship with others; they treat the Web as a place to communicate, work, and study. Therefore, their personal information could be shown to others, since they have a digital identity.

Wonder:

  • I would like to investigate more about how to protect ourselves from identity theft.

Here is the article I am writing about:

https://cmadland.github.io/edci338-202201/articles.html#visitors-and-residents-a-new-typology-for-online-engagement

Here is my own Visitor/Resident map:

Wow and Wonder 2

February 1, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Wow:

When I first looked at this word, connectivism, it aroused my interest. I was really curious about how it related to learning types. That was why I chose it to discuss.

Specifically, it is an individual activity. Since personal experiences are limited for people to gain abundant knowledge, technology allows individuals to connect with each other and connect with the online information sources. The stronger the connection is, the more chances people could acquire knowledge. Furthermore, companies could also adopt connectivism to learn and make progress. While individuals’ knowledge are updated online, online feedback helps people to obtain more knowledge. Therefore, the connection is vital for people’s learning.

Wonder:

In terms of connectivism, I want to investigate more about how non-human appliances allow people to learn.

Here is the link I am writing about:

https://cmadland.github.io/edci338-202201/articles.html#connectivism-a-learning-theory-for-the-digital-age

Wow and Wonder 1

January 23, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Personal Learning Network ( PLN) is a new jargon I just learned, and its meaning is different than what I thought at first. That ‘s why I chose this topic to discuss.

Wow:

  • I guessed PLN could be a specific website for personal online studying. However, in fact, it refers to much more broad, complexed and deep concepts. Specifically, each person has an unique PLN, since each one has preferred contacting partners, preferred electronic devices, and preferred information sources; PLN allows people study at their preferred time and locations.
  • Since the advancement of technology and the changing of the world are faster than our information acquisition from existing learning institutions, using PLN is vital and helpful for people to adapt to this fast-changing world.

Wonder:

  • In terms of the PLN, I am interested in the digital literacies we could develop. I wondered how its look like, and how could people improve it.
  • I would like to investigate offline identity further.

Here is the link I am writing about:

https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/learning-network-age/0/steps/24644

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Welcome and Introduction

May 2, 2020 / / 0 Comments

Before proceeding with this first blog post, we expect you to consider your privacy preferences carefully and that you have considered the following options:

  1. Do you want to be online vs. offline?
  2. Do you want to use your name (or part thereof) vs. a pseudonym (e.g., West Coast Teacher)?
  3. Do you want to have your blog public vs. private? (Note, you can set individual blog posts private or password protected or have an entire blog set to private)
  4. Have you considered whether you are posting within or outside of Canada? This blog on opened.ca is hosted within Canada. That said, any public blog posts can have its content aggregated/curated onto social networks outside of Canada.

First tasks you might explore with your new blog:

  • Go into its admin panel found by adding /wp-admin at the end of your blog’s URL
  • Add new category or tags to organize your blog posts – found under “Posts” (but do not remove the pre-existing “edci338” category).
  • See if your blog posts are appearing on the course website (you must have the the edci338 category assigned to a post first and have provided your instructor with your blog URL)
  • Add pages, if you like.
  • Include hyperlinks in your posts (select text and click on the link icon in the post toolbar)
  • Embed images or set featured images and embed video in blog posts and pages (can be your own media or that found on the internet, but consider free or creative commons licensed works). To embed a YouTube video, simply paste the URL on its own line.
  • Under Dashboard/Appearance,
    • Select your preferred website theme and customize to your preferences (New title, new header image, etc.)
    • Customize menus & navigation
    • Use widgets to customize blog content and features
  • Delete this starter post (or switch it to draft status if you want to keep it for reference)

Do consider creating categories for each course that you take should you wish to document your learning (or from professional learning activities outside of formal courses). Keep note, however, that you may wish to rename the label of the course category in menus (e.g., as we did where it shows “Social Media & PL” as the label for the “edci338” category menu.  This will enable readers not familiar with university course numbers to understand what to expect in the contents.

Lastly, as always, be aware of the FIPPA as it relates to privacy and share only those names/images that you have consent to use or are otherwise public figures. When in doubt, ask us.

Please also review the resources from our course website for getting started with blogging:

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Test Social Media Post

May 2, 2020 / / 0 Comments

This post  will appear in a few places:

  1. in the blog feed on the front of your website
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Feel free to delete this post once you understand this. If you have any questions, please reach out to your instructor.

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