Category: Assigned Posts
Contributing to the Learning of Others
First and foremost, I really enjoyed the group of students in this class! Many people were active participants and brought about some very interesting points of conversation. I contributed to the learning of others by taking part in every class…
Enhancing Digital Literacy in Our Classroom
“In a “post-truth” era where people are increasingly influenced by their emotions and beliefs over factual information, fact and fiction can be difficult to distinguish, and fake news can spread rapidly through mainstream media sources and social networks. Moreover, fake…
AI: CHAT GPT
Hi everyone! AI is a relatively new phenomenon to me. I remember the first time I learned of it was about a year ago when I ran into a problem I was asking a friend about. I needed to send…
The Sport of Cybersluething
My Cybersluething Mission Today I had the pleasure of “cybersluething” one of my classmates, Robin Kinnee. This was a fun experience, nothing quite like trying to figure out as much as you can about a complete stranger based on the way…
Teaching Digital Citizenship
A little over 10 years ago, it seems like technology really took the world by storm. It felt like one day we were using T9 word on our Samsung flip ones, and the next we we’re dishing out multiple Instagram…
Content Recreates Culture
“As an anthropologist, I think of media maybe slightly differently than most people. I don’t think of it as content, or tools of communication. I think of media as mediating human relationships.” (Michael Wesch) This quote stood out to be…
Me + Tech = Love/Hate Relationship
Soooo … when I think about my relationship with tech, it reminds me of my younger years when tech played a very simple role in my life. Starting with TV when I was a kid watching things like cartoons and…