Category: ECI 832

Major Project – The Final Post

These three months made me a tech-friendly person… I have started appreciating the use of apps in my daily life. so, for my major project, I decided to boost my knowledge about apps… I opted for the personal journey into media option. I chose three apps and I have...
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I learned a lot!!!

The day when I opted for this course I just didn’t know that it would be so interesting to learn about digital citizenship and literacy. This is my first step toward becoming a digitally literate person and I think there is no turning back now. I had a fear...
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Understanding the World of TikTok

The world of TikTok is vast… Businessofapps stated that by 2021 there were 1 billion users of TikTok and outside of China, TikTok’s largest markets are the US, Indonesia and Brazil. In China, it is known as Douyin and is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance Ltd. TikTok was initially...
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Understanding Equate

Being weak in mathematics, I have always been searching for an app that can help me in doing calculations. In my first blog post about my major project, I mentioned that I have needed this kind of application in my life. And today it has been almost three months...
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Cyberbullying

With the increase in the use of digital platforms, people feel they can say and post whatever they feel like. They are not bothered about the harmful effects their post might have on some other person. People find it so easy to troll and make memes on others… Trolling...
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Understanding Talkwall

Talkwall is a good tool to practice discourse in traditional and online classes. The teacher adds a task or a question, and the students post comments/opinions. All the contributions become visible for the participants in a shared feed, and the students or the teacher can choose to pin the...
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My reading habits and the scenario of fake news…

When I was in India, my average day use to begin with, a cup of coffee in one hand and a newspaper in the other. I like to read print media more in comparison to digitally available texts. I got this habit of reading newspapers from my parents. Since...
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My journey till today!!

This blog is about my major project update. I have been working on a few apps for the last few months. I have updated a small introduction about the two apps which are educational applications and the third app that I am working on is a social media application....
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The new era of LITERACY…

  When I was in school, the term literacy had a different meaning. It only referred to the skill of being able to listen, speak, read and write properly. According to UNESCO, literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials...
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Digital Citizenship in Schools

In the present environment, everyone is inclined towards using technological tools or applications. We have started using apps for things which in the past we use to do on our own… Additionally, teachers are also using technology to make classes interactive and engaging. Kids are using apps to connect...
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