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‘Anatomy of a Moral Panic’: How Digital Literacy Can Change Critical Panic to Critical Thinking

This article was very unsurprising. With the heightened hype of ‘clickbait’ culture, it is not shocking that every type of news source, even those that are well respected, are partaking in this clickbait culture. Where the views are what’s most important and not so much of the content. Besides the clickbait culture, these sources also … Continue reading ‘Anatomy of a Moral Panic’: How Digital Literacy Can Change Critical Panic to Critical Thinking

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Video games

Today on facebook a friend posted this article: Escape to Another World “What these individuals are not doing is clear enough, says Erik Hurst, an economist at the University of Chicago, who has been studying the phenomenon. They are not leaving home; in 2015 more than 50% lived with a parent or close relative. Neither […]

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Weekly Play #5

For this week I decided to do a Daily Create because right when I saw the prompt I knew exactly what I wanted to do. This week’s Daily Create prompt was to use two different homophones in a sentence and make a visual for it. When I saw this prompt I started to laugh because … Continue reading Weekly Play #5

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My Google Search Activity/Settings

After this week’s readings of privacy and security, I just so happen to come across a pop up box when I was on Google that asked me if I wanted to look at my search activity and settings. I was actually doing my homework when I came across this so I thought how interesting and … Continue reading My Google Search Activity/Settings

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Weekly Play – Caption Contest

For my weekly play I decided to do another daily create from DS106. Basically, the task was to take a cartoon from the New Yorker (they do a weekly caption contest) and add your own caption. Since my advocacy focus … Continue reading →

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Weekly Play – Caption Contest

For my weekly play I decided to do another daily create from DS106. Basically, the task was to take a cartoon from the New Yorker (they do a weekly caption contest) and add your own caption. Since my advocacy focus … Continue reading →

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Chapter 4 Worried About the Wrong Things

This chapter examined the use of electronics in schools and the ways that restrictions on technology impact the educational environment. According to the author, worries over the potential for technology to distract students from learning has led to restrictive policies … Continue reading →

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The Realist

This week I took a privacy personality quiz in order to further develop a sense of what my views are about the use of my personal data. Interestingly, the results seemed to be fairly accurate in calling me a privacy realist … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Secure Place to Connect

After reading about the dangers of algorithms and the tendency for social networks to collect our information, I am curious why there isn’t a popular social networking site devoted to keeping user habits private? While Mozilla has filled this need … Continue reading →

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Skype

On Friday, I was finally able to connect with an 8th grade class in Canada to discuss the GRA. I connected with another educator through a post I created on the GRA Facebook page requesting Skype connections. Once she agreed, I posted again requesting a topic for discussion and her Skype address. She responded with… Continue reading Skype

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Weekly Play – Remembering WWI

For my weekly play this week I decided to go back to creating a meme that relates to a current topic in politics. Since tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, I thought it would be fitting … Continue reading →

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Beware of workplace analogies

While reading chapter 4 of Jacqueline Vickery’s “Worried about the Wrong Things” the conversation of cell phone use in classroom shifted to how adults in the workplace are able to learn how to manage cell phone distractions. While this is … Continue reading →

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Let’s Take This Outside

Reading about the Harry Potter Alliance and the work that they are doing is an excellent reminder of how meaningful change often develops in unremarkable ways. While it is perfectly acceptable to start off with an ambitious social mission, is … Continue reading →

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Weekly Play #4: Vote, Vote, Vote!

This week I decided to do a meme/PSA because the midterms are happening on Tuesday so I thought what a good opportunity to make a meme on why someone should vote. Throughout the last few weeks I have seen a multitude of memes, lists, articles and videos on why someone (particularly young people) should vote. … Continue reading Weekly Play #4: Vote, Vote, Vote!

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Privacy and Surveillance: Why Should You Care?

While reading the report by Sangrita Shresthova, “Between Storytelling and Surveillance”, I started thinking about and relating it to my book circle book Worried About the Wrong Things. In Worried About the Wrong Things, the author discusses the concept of ‘risk’ and what that means and how it is defined in society. Connecting the concept of risk … Continue reading Privacy and Surveillance: Why Should You Care?

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Online “Authenticity”?

I really struggle with using the word “authentic” when describing content (especially for profit content) online. Learning about media literacy and content creation, it is so hard for me to grasp the concept of ‘authentic’ in the form of “manufactured” and YouTuber’s. Like Donna stated in the Vialogues regarding the video, “YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity,” she … Continue reading Online “Authenticity”?