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…
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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…
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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…
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Summary of Learning
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Debate #8 Reflection – Is Online Education Detrimental to the Social and Academic Development of Children?
All educators approach online education with varying degrees of enthusiasm and concern. I think I hold an optimistic perspective about online learning. Delivering courses online could offer more learning opportunities for students. For teachers, parents, and students, it is important to consider both the pros and cons of online learning so teachers and parents can help their children better prepare to face the challenge of studying online as well as embrace the new opportunities that it has to offer (University of Illinois, 2021). Strengths of Online Learning Anywhere & Anytime There are many reasons why online learning become popular among teachers, parents and students. As the disagreed side mentioned, online…
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Debate #7 Reflection – Do Educators and Schools Have a Responsibility to Help Students Develop a Digital Footprint?
Internet usage is now thoroughly embedded in many children’s lives. Although young people are frequently online, they do not consciously consider how their usage affects their digital identity, focusing instead on the short-term benefits of being able to network with friends (Buchanan et al., 2017). As Dan mentioned in his video, “Teaching Students About Digital Footprints and Digital Citizenship,” what you put online today, may stay there forever; anything you put online or sent to someone can be saved or screenshotted, will exist forever and you can’t take it back. It’s your digital legacy. Children need to be aware of their digital footprint and digital identity because they will have…
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Debate #6 Reflection – Should Cellphones Be Banned in the Classroom?
On the agree side, I still stand by my point. Cellphones should be banned in the classroom. Besides the few reasons that have been elaborated on during the debate, as Breanna (2019) mentioned, she has noticed in her own classroom that students have become increasingly dependent on their phones, and students are dealing with nomophobia, the fear of not being able to use one’s phone or the many apps that these devices now offer. This phenomenon leads to other issues including the inability to focus, stress and anxiety, and the inappropriate use of cellular devices. Nomophobia & FOMO How many of you are attempted to check your phone, like text, social media…
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Debate #5 Reflection – Is Social Media Ruining Childhood?
I was initially on the agree side of this topic, but after the debate and reading provided materials, I start questioning my position and questioning if social media is ruining childhood. I need to admit that social media does have some negative effects on children, but it’s not ruining childhood. We need to be aware that the time is different now, childhood for kids is different now, and parents’ responsibilities are different now. Stop Making a Comparison I hear both debate sides as well as as the videos from Matt and Dr. Brenna mentioned somethings like “when I was a kid, I don’t have so many screens in front of me except TV,” and…
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Debate #4 Reflection – Does Educators Have a Responsibility to Use Technology and Social Media to Promote Social Justice?
I was originally on the disagree side of this topic. After the debate and reading about articles, I kind of switched to the agreed side: Educators have a responsibility to use technology and social media to promote social justice under the condition that educators will do it appropriately and have actions back up. Neutrality Education Kari, Jessica and Jenny mention that education is not neutral either, such as curriculum design. It makes to think about the foundational question of education, “what is education for?” As Henry Giroux mentioned, education always plays a central role and transforms the world into a fairer, more caring and democratic place, education is key. If that is…
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Debate #3 Reflection – Should Schools Teach Skills That Can Be Easily Carried Out by Technology?
I would like to start this blog by introducing an interesting paper I recently read, “The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerization?” by Carl and Michael from the University of Oxford. In this paper, they develop a novel methodology to category occupations according to their susceptibility to computerization because of the recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Mobile Robotics (MR), and then they implement this methodology to estimate the probability of computerization for 702 detailed occupations and examine expected impacts of future computerization on US labour market outcomes. They find out some occupations have a high probability of computerization, such as Bus drivers, transit and intercity,…