This class today not only taught me that our new normal is using the internet all of the time, and that adults spend more time looking at screens than at their own children…
But that we as patrons of society are teaching our technology as we live. We facilitate and activate new knowledge and learning both for and through technology. By products of the internet are allowing students to learn in alternative ways by connecting and learning with an online community. As users of public platforms, we manifest a digital literacy, digital identity, and need to understand our digital rights.
Data whether we know it or not, is recorded and accessible in-company to lend to larger influencing networks. Our generation’s use of communication networks, social, professional, and personal need to be safety in networked connections
- security of self
- looking into smartphone effects on teaching pedagogy adaptations
- Middle school culture integrated with social media
- Better data due to better counselling
- Adult participation can grow into technological understanding and foster learning
- good research emerges from terrible events
- we have tools that WE ALL SHAPE that become
a part of our culture.
Social media is the shaping of our culture, and this isn’t new to our society. There has always been a way to access technology that is intended to be forbidden, and our choices as individuals effects the formation of social media today and tomorrow. Hearing this from our tech seminar guest made me think of the judgement that our parents and older generations give to us millennials as social media users. Their own actions of their past has curated the platforms our generations use today. In fact, their generation CREATED our social media accounts.
The way things used to be in 2014, the peak of social media meets politics, and it’s only gotten worse and its always going to be comparable to yesterday.
There is a multifaceted phone relationship. For example, Dad getting mad at phone bill on phone vs opening paper bills changes the way young impressionable children view a cell phone, and what significance
- Teachers need to treat the classroom like a team sport
- What is social media worth to you?
- No student sharing on any personal accounts
- Fresh grade: Canadian Kelowna-based grading app where parents and teachers can communicate online through an easy to use app.
- All in all, both teachers and parents need to reconsider their approach to social media