Below I have provided my summary of learning throughout this course. It is a little bit choppy as I am still working on my editing skills, but I have noticed improvement since the beginning of the course. I have absolutely loved everything that we had discussed in this class! We discussed so many topics that I am passionate about and it was amazing to get to read what everyone else was interested in and able to get out of the materials. I truly believe that two heads are better than one because everyone is different and it is important to expand our knowledge beyond just what we as individuals know.…

I have created a document that exemplifies my participation in networked learning. It displays some of my favorite comments that I have made on other people’s posts. I chose these ones because I feel that I really connecting with the blog post and was able to add relevant information to their discussion. The document also displays my interactions with other folks in the discord chat for the class. I feel that I have tried to be as helpful as I can. I also really enjoyed the small discussion that I started about a news article that I had found. Finally, the document also showcases examples of the work I have…

I will be honest, one part of looking for new resources that I really dislike is that every website wants you to create an account. I find it frustrating because often you cannot even test out the resource to see if it is what you are looking for until you make an account. Once you create an account, they want to send you a thousand emails which is overwhelming especially when they are from a site that you have decided you do not even like. So, to speed up the process and save myself from having to create 10 new accounts I decided to look at websites that have already…

I find the concept of cyber-vigilantism intriguing because I cannot decide how I feel about it. I go back and forth because I see both the positives and negatives and I struggle to decide which is the stronger argument. Truthfully, I am beginning to think that there is no correct answer because there are consequences to being for and against. Some of the obvious pros of cyber-vigilantism have been well documented. For example, there is a CBC news clip explaining the experience of how Shaun Ironside was reunited with his stolen car after a post online caused people across the globe to begin helping him to search for it. In…

The topic of digital literacy and determining whether or not something is fake news got me thinking back to my internship. I interned in a grade 4 classroom. During my time at the school, I planned a cross-curricular research project that connected English language arts and science. I think that it is easy to make a curricular connection between these subjects and digital literacy as science is a very inquiry based subject and ELA develops students’ abilities to conduct research, comprehend what they have read, and distinguish fact from fiction. As part of this project students were required to use one printed and one online resource. We had a discussion…

I started learning to code when I started working with a program called EYES (Educating Youth in Engineering and Science) a couple of years ago. Prior to this experience I had thought of coding as either binary (1’s and 0’s) or written code like python. I also typically envisioned coding as they depict in the movies where the person doing the coding is wearing a hoodie in a dark basement and typing a mile a minute just to get past the firewall that is supposedly impossible to get through, but somehow, they do it in a matter of minutes. I have since learned that coding does not have to be a…