This week in Digital Citizenship, I was able to reflect upon and learn details about net neutrality and investigate my personal digital footprint or tattoo. I also revisited the element of digital health and wellness as I created a short animated video that addressed the topic.
This summer I heard a lot of reports about net neutrality and how legislation may change to where net neutrality would no longer be available in the United States. At the time, I was not exactly sure what net neutrality was and how it would effect me. I now know that as a student, educator, and someone who would eventually like to be a creator and business owner in the future, the loss of net neutrality would greatly effect me, my students and many others. I am also someone who enjoys seeing and learning from the creative content of others and therefore podcasts, YouTube channels, and educational blogs that I follow might not be available to with such ease of access. Like I said in the assignment, I feel that losing net neutrality would revert our society in a regressive direction, which in my opinion is the opposite of the essence of education. I also took the time to Google my name to examine my digital footprint. As a millennial, I grew up in a critical era where social media and digital communication began to make an impact (AOL instant messenger, MySpace, Facebook) so I have used many platforms as well as see them come and go. With that, I can proudly say that there was no damaging information concerning me, which I expected anyways. None of my social media came up through the Google search but work and academic information did. However, I was not too found to find out that personal information such as my home telephone number and address is available for anyone to look up. I would definitely like to keep it this way. I am looking into finding out how to get my ePortfolio to come up whenever my name is searched as that link was not produced in my name search. Lastly, I was able to create a PowToon addressing the digital citizenship element of health and wellness. I naturally gravitate towards this element because in my spare time I enjoy researching, learning and participating in improving my own health and wellness whether it’s digital or not. Through my findings, I’ve come across apps such as Forest rewards you with planting actual trees for productivity. I’ve also learned that there are therapy options available where you can communicate with real licensed therapists through video or text with the use of an app. I think it’s pretty innovative and convenient to allow apps to aid in mental health and wellness. In the following weeks I would like to delve into other elements, as they are very important too. I’m not too savvy when it comes to digital law or digital literacy so I plan to read up and pay more attention to these topics. Resources: https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2018/01/4-ways-net-neutrality-repeal-could-impact-k-12-education Forest App forestapp.cc How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Social Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLbKaftiDfo http://neatoday.org/2015/03/11/net-neutrality-means-students-educators/ Online/ App Based Therapy www.talkspace.com
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