Digital Citizenship Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling can be very beneficial within the classroom because in order to create the digital story, you have to have knowledge about the topic you are creating your video on. Having students create a digital story will lead them to do research on a specific topic so they will be able to create a detailed story without putting a ton of words on each slide. Also, having to say the information out loud as if you are telling someone, will help you retain and understand it better than just jotting it down on each slide. Having to be able to "story tell" and create and visual video really made me research into all the details of privacy. After going through the process of creating and publishing my digital story and having to do the research for the topic I was given, I feel like having the students to do this in the classroom would be very beneficial and interesting and would keep the students interested more than if they were just taking notes in class.

Works Cited

“Privacy.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Sept. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy. Accessed 17 Sept. 2017.

“7 Powerful Ways to Maintain Your Privacy and Integrity Online.” Collective Evolution, 26 Aug. 2013, www.collective-evolution.com/2013/06/13/7-powerful-ways-to-maintain-your-privacy-and-integrity-online/.

University, Santa Clara. “Why We Care about Privacy.” Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/internet-ethics/resources/why-we-care-about-privacy/.

Wikipedia contributors. "The Right to Privacy (article)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 15 Sep. 2017. Web.

22 Sep. 2017

Digital Citizenship and Flaming

Flaming is when things are said behind a computer screen that would not be said to someone face to face. I knew that flaming was a thing and happened often, but I did not know that it was actually called "Flaming." Throughout my years of having a computer and being able to communicate with people by things like instant messengers, I have never been one to say things behind a computer screen that I would not say to their face. Of course, I text people and communicate via technology but I am one who would rather just have conversations face to face. By talking to someone who is literally right in front of you is so much easier when it comes to trying to explain something and getting to see the person's reaction instead of guessing when communicating behind a screen. Just like stated in the article, there is so many times that things that are being said behind a computer screen get misunderstood often, where as when talking face to face how you are trying to say something is clear and the other person knows the tone you are using when talking to them. Not only is it easier to fully comprehend what the other person is saying and how they are saying it, but it is so much easier to actually be able to feel the emotions/feelings between one another when talking in person. Knowing more of what I thought I already knew a lot about will change my outlook on communicating behind a screen permanently. I will also be sure to spread the knowledge of flaming to people around me who do not often communicate face to face. I have always been cautious when it comes to talking to people on the internet because more often than realized, people are not really who they say they are when hiding behind a screen. So I will defiantly make sure my friends are aware of this and how serious it is even though people don't not see it as being as serious and it really can be.

MI Theory and Technology

What some people may not put a lot of thought into is that the connection between your feelings on the topic you are being taught or learning about. If you are learning about something that does not interest you in any sense then you are not going to put your all into paying attention and learning about the topic. When not interested in the topic then you are not going to give the teacher or the material your full attention, without the material interesting you then you are not going to care if you understand the material or not. Usually when you don't care too much for what is being taught, then it tends to be more difficult to understand and be tested on because of the lack of interest whereas if you do find it interesting them it grabs your attention and you find it less difficult to grasp the concept. When it is something that you have more emotion in learning in more depth about then you put forth more effort and attention to understand the material in a more open-minded and enjoyable way (Carlson-Pickering).
The MI Theory correlates with this because not everyone learns the same things, the same exact way. Every child has a different learning style and they absorb information in so many different ways, kids grasp material all sorts of ways. This is why classroom material shouldn't be taught in just one specific way, it wouldn't be fair to teach it in certain way when half of the children are not making any progress on learning. Being able to teach the children in many different ways would be more likely to allow more of them to understand what is being taught and learning more material that is important and being able to apply the material when asked or needed (Changing).
Reading and Chemistry is my absolute least favorite topic when it comes to learning. I learn best by movement (Assessment)  and within those two topics, movement isn't really the ideal way to teach wither of those. By using technology it could possible allow me to use interacting tools or demonstrations to help me find those topics more interesting and easier to understand. Instead of sitting in the classroom and being lectured all of this different equations or just being stuck having to read material, I could use technology to broaden my views on this topics by making it more interacting.
In today's world there are so many things that people still don't understand and I believe that that is why MI Theory is important in our society because there is so many different ways to learn and people should be able to experience those in order to be able to understand and learn more things in our time and technology. Teaching many different ways to meet the needs of more than one learning style is the perfect example for "No child left behind." Therefore, using the MI Theory will have the chance to broaden the learning horizon for many more people in the world.

Carlson-Pickering, J. (1999). Teachers and Technology Initiative. Retrieved September 10, 2017, from http://www.21learn.org/archive/teachers-in-technology-initiative/

Assessment: Find Your Strengths! (n.d.). Retrieved September 10, 2017, from http://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/cgi-bin/results.cgi

W. (2012, November 15). Changing Education Paradigms By Sir Ken Robinson - February 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=068Xv-J7fEw

VARK Learning Style

After taking the VARK Learning Style Survey, I realized that I had four different learning styles. The learning style that had the highest rating was  the Kinesthitic style, which the rate was 10. Along with that learning style I also had Visual that rated at 5 and Read/Write at 9. The survey tool seems to be pretty accurate because I would prefer to learn by hands on, demonstration and examples, etc. Instead of getting lectured or taking notes from a power point my results of the material taken in from class always tend to be significantly better when I have gotten to learn from hands on activities more than lecture.
By taken part in more demonstration and example activities within technology I believe that that would improve my learning skills as well. Being able to do more technology activities instead of just reading from the computer, going to google or a website that would provide examples, demonstrations or diagrams would improve my understand of the topic tremendously and would help enhance my VARK survey results.

D, B. "Introduction to VARK." VARK, vark-learning.com/introcution-to-vark/

Education Needs a Digital Upgrade

     The writer, Ms. Davidson, speaks for technology strongly. She speaks so strongly about her thoughts on technology because of the valid statements she makes throughout her blog. She thinks that the teachers are sort of denying the children the use of learning with technology that they actually need to acquire the knowledge for jobs that they will have in the future. Some people see it as a distraction but Ms. Davidson sees it as if it a need to allow them to succeed and be prepared for the coming jobs of their future.
Ms. Davidson states that she believes that teaching more with technology and allowing the kids to use it is not so demanding because of the elder teachers who do not have part in knowing a lot about it. Therefore, they do not really see the big deal in teaching it to the students; most people will argue that technology is too big of a distraction to the kids. As for her thoughts, she thinks that they truly need to be able to experience and explore more with it so they will not be lost in the future. She believes that jobs in the future are going to be more advanced in the future and to obtain one, one will need to know things about technology.

I believe that technology should be taught in the classroom more often than simple worksheets. These children need to have the knowledge to be able to work with technology so they will be aware of these things when the new/advanced jobs appear in the future. So i think that this how a average classroom should look, with teachers helping the students learn more about technology and working together.