Digital persona is a delicate balancing act of keeping yourself close to your real life and yet different, less clear. A digital persona is a chance to give a new perspective on yourself, yet this new version of yourself must keep the respectful mindset of a digital citizenship. Digital citizenship is so much like real citizenship except, that people also have to be aware of how their personal information is shared with the digital world at large. A digital persona is like decoding in reverse, the individual must build how they want others to decode them. They have this power when crafting their digital persona, by using certain words and certain images it creates a mental path that most casual digital decoders will follow. Digital citizenship on the other hand is like meaning making, each person has their own personal understanding of what makes a good citizen, what they have to build up to have others welcome them as a good citizen. I fulfilled each requirement of this course, so I have tried many different kinds of creative makes, the most obvious being the blogging site itself, but I also tried, Kahoot, Mindomo, and Flipgrid. The more I was made aware of not only how my words impact others, but the impacts others words can have on me and my actions mattered when online. Without looking at the small details of online articles and posts I will miss out on important details that would help me understand the underlying intentions of the writer(s). I used basic news sources like CBC, CTV, Global and the Toronto Star and Sun to keep me informed on the comings and goings of the world. I like to check multiple sources to see what they say and build my own opinions off them. I like to also model my digital persona to what I expect a future employer will look for, I’m active enough to seem social, but reserved enough to not look like a bad influence on my future students. I also had many seminars in high school on digital competency, how to edit a profile to show what you want seen, and I took those lessons to heart. I have wanted to be a teacher for years ad because of that I understood that in this new age of technology digital competency is vital component to success. The line of digital competency is also ever changing, it moves as the invention of new technology allows. Critical digital literacy and the lessons learned in this class will allow me to teach students what I learned here, the lessons that will help in making different media creations. The different programs I encountered in this class gave me a good starting point to create the same sort of introduction of different medias to students. I would love to create a short class maybe once a week for student initiation into different media platforms. Starting in possibly grade five, I would set aside maybe an hour or two in a week to dedicate to learning a new platform or media production in class then giving them the rest of the week until the next class to submit a picture or link of their work. This would make students more willing to learn new media works. I never had this introduction to multiple medias, so I was never very comfortable with learning new material at a fast pace. This is something I don’t want students of mine to go through, is just a digital age. I will like to have at least a few hours a week dedicated to learning about new medias, and being a good digital citizen, this will only become more important as time goes on.
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Madison
12/10/2018 04:53:48 pm
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Allyson DuffThird year education student at Lakehead University. Specializing in Sociology and Media Studies Archives
November 2018
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