• EC&I 832,  Weekly Reflections

    Week #3 Reflection: How to Educate Digital Natives

    The student-centred organization and teaching process to help students complete the future-oriented ability and competitiveness training is an inevitable choice in the media era. The future success of students is the fundamental guarantee for the vitality of a school. Current students have grown up in the environment of computers and the Internet, and have been accustomed to various technology applications since childhood, so they are also called “digital natives”. Compared with the “digital immigrant” generation, the behavior patterns and learning styles of this generation of students have had an impact on education. For example, students cannot do without electronic devices, do not pay attention to the lecture, search for answers…

  • EC&I 832,  Weekly Reflections

    Week #2 Reflection: Media Literacy

    Media literacy was a new definition for me until I read Potter’s book (Chapters 1 and 2). Media is an integral part of today’s society, I probably don’t realize how much media I encounter on a daily basis and don’t realize how it is important for us. Because we are surrounded by so much media information, it is essential to understand the messages that are being communicated to us and how to use this massive media information. Fake news is everywhere, so it is especially important for children who are not only more susceptible to the influences of the media but who are also more adept and creative when it…

  • EC&I 832,  Weekly Reflections

    Week #1 Reflection: A Brand New Mom’s Worry

    Recently, I became a mother and started to think about my responsibilities as a parent, and how am I going to raise my kid. I have never become this worried before. How can I keep my child safe in the digital age? As the article “To keep teens safe online, they need to learn to manage risk” mentioned, putting parents’ control over the phone does not solve the underlying problems. The more children spend time online, the more they are exposed to digital risks, such as cyberbullying, sexting and harmful user-generated content. Parents cannot always be there when kids use the Internet. Helping them learn how to protect themselves and…