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TikTok’s, Desmos’, and Khan Academy’s privacy policies and disadvantages

TIKTOK

Privacy Policy of TikTok

According to TikTok’s terms, they gather personal details, technical information, and behavioural data regarding users’ usage of the site. TikTok also gathers data from users’ phone books if they give TikTok permission to their mobile device’s phone book, according to the rules. If a user decides to discover other users using their contact list, TikTok would obtain and gather the contact numbers and names, then compare them to current TikTok members. TikTok would also gather users’ public profile details and the identities and profiles of their social acquaintances if they opt to discover other users via their social networking relationships.

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TikTok’s conditions state that they will not trade a user’s private data to other parties, but they also state that they might deliver users commercial marketing materials from TikTok or even other third-party partners and trustworthy third parties. TikTok and its third-party affiliates might use tracking technology and cookies to display adverts on other internet sites or digital services on their behalf, according to the conditions. TikTok collaborates with third-party digital advertising networks that utilise technology to recognise a user’s search engine or device and gather data regarding their visit to TikTok in an attempt to offer personalised content, marketing, and promotional messages, according to the conditions.

Drawbacks Of TikTok

  • Misuse of abilities: Given the fact that the application attracts millions of great producers, it also attracts millions of people who use it for activities that aren’t classified as art. Something, like anything else, maybe excellent when used for the right reasons, but when used for the wrong reasons, it could be uninteresting and deceptive.
  • Wastage of time: It will not influence your education or lifestyle if you set a time restriction on how much time you spend on each application. However, one issue with such apps is that they may become addictive at times. You can’t stop yourself from using it, even when your inner self urges you not to. As a result, always be sure to set a limit for TikTok’s pleasure.
  • Concerns about your health: It’s not healthy to stare at a screen for multiple hours. It’s also not healthy to sit on the sofa without moving your body. As a result, this isn’t completely the mistake of an entertainment application. But it is, in some way, the cause. As a result, you must ensure that your eyes and body get enough rest when using TikTok for numerous hours.
  • Not exactly kid-friendly: It might be difficult to stop your youngsters from using such applications, even if it is your obligation as a parent. Even though TikTok has standards prohibiting the submission of sexually explicit content, there are still videos like these circulating. As a result, the application might be problematic at times.

KHAN ACADEMY

Privacy Policy Of Khan Academy

  • They’re dedicated to providing you with a secure and safe internet experience.
  • Your private details are never sold to a third party. Khan Academy was founded as a nonprofit organisation so that their educational purpose and your confidence will not be jeopardised by a business motivation.
  • They work hard to offer you control and access over the data you send them, and they take data security extremely seriously.
  • As noted in their Children’s Privacy Notice, they take additional safeguards for your younger kids, including limiting kid profiles to automatically prevent elements that might allow a child to publish or reveal personal details.

Children’s privacy is a priority at Khan Academy.

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Khan Academy places a high priority on safeguarding the privacy of children. As a result, they’ve developed several tools to assist secure children’s data. Whenever a child opens an account, they must first obtain permission from a parent or lawful guardian. Whenever a School uses Khan Academy in an educational context, they depend on the School to permit Khan Academy to gather data from a School User under the age of thirteen on behalf of the Parents.

Drawbacks of Khan Academy

It’s not as participatory as having an instructor or tutor in person. You get rapid feedback and may discuss your thought procedure with a tangible teacher or tutor. You don’t get such engagement with Khan Academy videos. You can’t ask someone else to explain anything if you have a query regarding an idea or an issue. Working through problem-solving methods on your own to assess your comprehension is far more challenging.

Only one training method is presented to you. Many children are auditory learners, while others are kinetic, visual, or a combination of the three. Some pupils benefit from examples, while others benefit from hands-on learning. With Khan Academy, you are confined to studying how the video educates you, and it might or might not be the ideal method for you to learn as a person.

The educational part of collaboration is lost. Being in a classroom or working one-on-one has the advantage of allowing you to bounce thoughts off of each other and collaborate. You could get a fresh perspective on something or assist one another in developing shared understanding, talents, or strengths and shortcomings. While learning from videos, that technique cannot be duplicated similarly.

It reduces the ability to be creative on the spur of the moment. Khan Academy, by its very nature, stifles some of the creativity and ingenuity that comes with learning. It could only provide you with instructions; it can’t inspire or assist you to find a solution by yourself. Not only is studying the information important but so is coming up with new ideas and being able to put them into action.

DESMOS

Privacy Policy Of Desmos

They are concerned about the security of your Private Information, and they have implemented physical, contractual, administrative, and technical precautions to ensure the accuracy and privacy of all data acquired via their Service. Access to information is restricted to personnel who need access to fulfil their job tasks using user ID or password credentials and, in certain situations, two-factor authentication. To transport Private Information, they employ industry-standard SSL (secure socket layer technology) encryption. Firewalls,  Data encryption, physical access restrictions to buildings and documents, and personnel training are among the other security protections. Furthermore, they engage in agreements with all third-party businesses or agents involved in the onward transmission of Private Information, and they seek contractual security guarantees from them. By choosing and safeguarding your password securely, and restricting access to the system and search engine by signing out once you have completed using your account, you may help protect against unauthorized entry to your account and Private Information.

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Drawbacks of Desmos

  • Without a device and connection to the internet, this information is unavailable.
  • Instead does not assist students in developing computational abilities, but it compensates for their deficiency.
  • Not all types of testing are available.
  • The tool must be learned by the student. When things grow intricate, less experienced learners may struggle if they don’t get a lot of guidance.

what are the moral, ethical, and legal issues around integrating technology and (social) media in schools/classrooms?

As early as kindergarten, children are introduced to ethics in the classroom. Teacher explains what rules are and what the reason behind them is. Student learns not to hurt or cheat other students. Technology in the classroom, however, complicates the ethics of the classroom.

The use of a device is common among students before entering elementary school. Technology usage experiences vary greatly among students and students. Some parents may not allow their children to use the internet without their consent. You might not know this, but some parents do not allow their children to use the internet without them being present to supervise them.

Ethics have always been at the forefront of learning in a world driven by technology, almost before students learn how to behave in real-life situations through education. Cyberbullying and copyright issues are nothing new to children. Besides handling students’ devices and the internet, teachers must also deal with their varied skill levels in using them.

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Keep technology equipment in good condition.

Malware and viruses are rampant, so students must be very cautious when they download, click, and share.

Find learning and research sites that are appropriate and safe.

The information on many websites is inaccurate or false. Educators can recommend websites that are trustworthy. In order to evaluate websites, students must decide whether their content can be trusted.

Creative Commons, the Fair Use Act, and copyright laws are important.

It is not until later those students realize that copying and pasting has copyright implications. It is important for students to be familiar with copyright laws and how to use and share content safely.

Cyberbullying can be prevented with your help.

It is easy to say things on the internet that one would not say in person because of anonymity and lack of face recognition. Aside from discussing the definition of cyberbullying, students should also learn how hurtful and damaging it can be. Cyberbullying is a form of harassment that students can report to teachers, counselors, administrators or their parents. Give examples of cyberbullying and encourage students to report an incident to such individuals.

The importance of self-image cannot be overstated.

With no faces to recognize, digital communication can easily lead to oversharing. Potential employers should familiarize themselves with how to search for individual candidates’ social media profiles on a regular basis to find out how they present themselves online.

Netiquette should be followed.

Netiquette, or online etiquette, is a set of rules for online communities. Displacing one’s attention by using a device during a conversation, writing poorly in online forums, and sending unsolicited emails are some examples of bad webiquette. Netiquette should be explained to students and why it is good or bad.

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Cite the original source whenever possible.

While students learn how to cite sources in term papers, they also learn how to respect copyright laws and avoid plagiarism by using online citations.

Ensure that you are ethical, effective, and thoughtful when creating digital content.

Digital tools can be incorporated into classroom assignments by teachers. Students are able to learn to make responsible use of technology under the supervision of a teacher.

Try to think.

TECH SMART can be integrated into teachers’ lesson plans so that students can think about a technology’s purpose in every digital interaction.

People are finding it increasingly difficult to assess the ethical impact of their online behaviors due to the rapid advancement of technology. Students can become ethical citizens in the digital age if they understand ethical issues of technology in classrooms and remember the steps of TECH SMART.

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons”.                         

                                                    – R. Buckminster Fuller (Inventor and Author)

Thank you

Lovepreet kaur

Major project / Khan Academy-

Well, this class, on the other hand, greatly aided me in understanding more about various digital sites and tools for improving the effectiveness of my teaching and learning processes. I learned about two educational websites for my main project, Desmos and TikTok, and now I’m working on “Khan Academy,” a very smart and interesting website that supports pre-service and post-service teachers and their students. When I used to teach in India, I used this digital site for the first time to teach my students, and I’m still learning from it. It is a really helpful website that is beneficial not only to students but also to teachers and parents of students.

Khan Academy is a website designed specifically for teachers and students to learn subjects like math, physics, chemistry, history, economics, and other competitive tests like the SAT, LSAT, and MCAT. This website contains educational materials for primary school students, primarily kindergarten, first, and second grades in elementary schools.

The major goal of this website is to provide free access to a world-class education to everyone, wherever in the globe. https://www.khanacademy.org/about

And it will continue to do so as it expands its content and incorporates new educational philosophies and technology. Khan Academy, which includes articles, practice exams, and other subject matter for practically all classes, is a creative method to engage more students both inside and outside of the classroom, in my opinion.

I made a video in which I discussed some of the features of Khan Academy.

Click the link below to watch the video:  

Furthermore, in all-informative films, teachers avoided showing their faces, which I believe is an excellent method to protect teachers’ digital identities. However, in general, this website is new, encouraging, and offers a new viewpoint on education.

Thank you

LOVEPREET KAUR

Role of Media in Reading and Writing

Looking at an average day

Being a teacher, it is my responsibility to increase my teaching skills by gathering information through online due to easy access of those content as well as huge availability. I have found that several media which are treated a good source of content as well as an important tool to increase the power of digital knowledge and leave footprints over the readers. This concept attracted me to a huge extent to increase my scoop of knowledge. Thus, for me being a teacher, I think that average day of a reader should be like viewing news, surfing some typical informative websites and reading through specific articles as well as blogs.

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News websites according to me are considered to be an important tool where I think, I can gather information across the world which further would help me to make my student understand. It is natural for students to ask question to us why, what, how the things are happening in their surroundings. Thus, through news websites, it will help me to remain updated.  Often, I found social media sites shares fake news. Thus, it is my responsibility to not get mislead by those misleading information which consequently misinterprets a particular incident. It hampers the advertising process as well as the public relationship with media.

 Personal strategies and Connection Making

Strategies need to be taken before cultivating news. According to me, there is much fake news available on the news websites and are served in centralized metric forms and valued as strong online content. On daily basis, comes across with several fake news which are too hard to believe.

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The article Fighting ‘Fake News’ in the Classroom, by Holly, is also very knowledgeable, as it explains about how new media channel affects people in spreading fake news. As a teacher, I think strategies should be considered like source acknowledgement must be followed before news is regarded as true.

  • Person who is story reporting and the way of reporting is noticed and developing a critical mindset is necessary to analyse about the trustworthiness of particular news.
  • Images need to be supervised before considering their face value. There is a certain process through which the information collected must be validated by a literate person and it includes six steps.
  • First, it needs to identify and then find the source of the information.
  • Generally, two types of fake news prevail and those are the stories that are absolutely false and another one is stories that are partially true.

Third step of news validation according to me is evaluating the news and then applying that news on website and finally acknowledging it. Looking towards accuracy and fairness can be followed so that use of neutral language, reverse image searching features must be monitored.

Moreover, the article” A Reminder That ‘Fake News’ Is An Information Literacy Problem – Not A Technology Problem, by Chris, which I found to be very informative as it explains the role of society for spreading fake news which is not a problem of media and technology.

“Misinformation is the side effect of being uninformed.”     ― Mohith Agadi

Thank you

Lovepreet Kaur

TikTok- a powerful teaching tool/Major project

Well!! I am not a digital media person, but I would love to explore different sites to make my teaching- learning more effective. Along with Desmos, I am also learning about various social media apps that are useful in Education sector. Therefore, for my major project, I will share my personal journey of using TikTok as a new comer. So, recently, I made an account on TikTok, which is very new platform for me. In this blog, I will share, how, TikTok is helpful in making our lessons more interesting. TikTok, an online video sharing app, which can be used for educational purpose also. TikTok can be used to learn something and even teach something, and people are already doing it. There are a lot of people in TikTok who are making educational videos and many more different kinds of informative videos, many people who post videos of science experiments, math’s lessons &reading. Some post motivational stuff, some post activity videos for students. Here, I am sharing my first TikTok video.

1st TikTok video…

As per this news https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/20/tiktok-to-rank-as-the-third-largest-social-network-2022-forecast-notes/#:~:text=TikTok%20will%20follow%20with%20its,ahead%20of%20Snap%20and%20Twitter.&text=TikTok%2C%20over%20the%20past%20couple,the%20first%20quarter%20of%202020 , TikTok is one of the most used social platforms, and some of its part for teaching sectors also. Most of the people around the world are using TikTok for educational purpose also. Just like them, I also try to used it in my educational field, and I believe, one of the most top features of TikTok is, it helps in creating and editing videos all on the same platform. Moreover, teachers began creating videos on various complex ideas and uploading them to TikTok so that students may watch them several times and learn quickly. TikTok is inspiring modern-day teachers to create TikTok-based assignments in which students create videos about their understanding of difficult concepts, which teachers watch and analyze rather than making students mug and write essays without understanding anything, all of which is assisting students in learning more effectively. Also, with its EduTok Program, it has created and popularized various educational videos.

Looking forward to make more educational videos on TikTok.

Thank you

Lovepreet kaur

Literacy & Digital Literacy –

Literacy is more or less a way of life, and it’s not just a word. To me, literate means more than simply being able to read and write, but we tend to define it that way in our culture. And, in simple words, digital literacy is the knowledge technology. I went to school again after becoming literate like many others. Today, going to college is regarded as one of the highest educational tiers in America, and being a student is almost a right of passage. In order to become literate and, ultimately, better citizens, many people attend college. A literate person in 2022 is someone who goes beyond reading and writing to understand others. Thus, through our past, present and anticipation of the future, how did we arrive at this place.

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 Literacy is crucial to creating job opportunities, supporting workers and their families and eradicating poverty in our region…Literacy must start in homes and classrooms by giving the children of Los Angeles the best education possible to enable them to pursue their goals and become engaged citizens. I am committed to assembling the resources needed to build the skills of our workers and our children.  – Antonio villaraigosa

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As a result, literacy must be molded to the individual it is intended for. Although English class is often labeled as literacy class in some schools, are the teachers teaching what literacy entails? The English department also teaches them how to analyze texts in addition to grammar and linguistics. Children are not taught how to express themselves through reading and writing, or through drawing. While writing, I realize that I’m biased, but that’s okay. The way I have written this essay is shaped by my definition of literacy. In a way, what I am doing is allowing the reader to see my views and form his or her own opinion about the issues I am raising.

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The question of assessing literacy has often crossed my mind. Literacy obviously means something different to each of us. It’s understandable if you don’t write with proper grammar. Grammar is somewhat different from language to language, and therefore each language has its own rules. The teacher suggested a different definition of literacy for our project than the one we had written in class. It is the vast number of definitions people have of literacy that makes it so unique. They reveal how the person really sees the world and how they grew up. In books, I see the world from the characters’ point of view. It interests me to learn how other people see the world. I define it differently from you. That’s what literacy is all about, isn’t it? We can interpret, understand, and use it so many ways. Seeing a single act or image described in so many different ways make us unique and enables us to appreciate how much creativity there is in the world.

Physical literacy is a journey by which children and youth, and everyone, develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed to gain access to a wide range of activities.

Individuals who are physically literate continually obtain motivation, ability, and expertise toward communicating, applying, and analyzing a wide array of movements. Across a wide range of health-related physical activities, they demonstrate confidence, competence, creativity, and strategic thinking. People with these skills are better able to make choices and decisions that are both beneficial to themselves and to others, as well as to the environment skills.

Thank you

LOVEPREET KAUR

Digital citizenship in schools!

Digital Citizenship

By teaching media literacy and digital citizenship to our students, rather than avoiding, blocking, or filtering, I am strongly advocating an active role for schools. Mike Ribble’s suggests that teachers must teach students about the rules of the digital world as well, and how to handle technology correctly and responsibly, in the same way they teach students about society.

As I began to reflect, I focused on the three major questions my classmate Leigh raised in last week’s content catalyst.

  • What are the reasons for teaching digital citizenship?
  • What are the best times to teach it?
  • How do we teach it?

What is the point of teaching digital citizenship? My classmates mentioned, that students lack critical thinking and safety skills, as stated by “Digital Citizenship Education in Saskatchewan Schools.” To become good digital citizens, students need to move from being consumers to becoming communicators and collaborators (John K. Waters in the article Turning students into good digital citizens).

Digital citizenship: when should it be taught? I do not think we can teach digital citizenship at an early age to my own children and my students. Technology begins to be used by children at an early age, and parents assume that because they are good at “swiping,” their children are tech savvy, making adults overlook the fact that children are at risk.

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Do parents need to teach their children about technology? My students and children deserve a chance to learn how to be responsible digital citizens and how to maintain a positive digital footprint. By teaching Mike Ribble’s nine elements of digital citizenship in the context of real-life scenarios and experiences, students will be better equipped to communicate and collaborate respectfully and meaningfully. Using the 3C and 1Q method, classrooms can share ideas and comments on each other’s work via Skype. That seems like a great idea to me. In an age where information overload is rife, it is crucial our children learn lateral reading so that they can develop critical thinking skills. Finding the article Digital Citizenship: Reflecting on the Role of Technology in the World Around Us online, I was immediately attracted to it for the unique opportunity offered to students to take something said online, or a topic they cared about, and discuss it in a podcast. Matt and Trevor’s article about Finland’s efforts to combat fake news in primary schools illustrates how valuable it is to teach people how to think critically and to evaluate information.

“Students need to be educated on how to be good citizens of their country and what their rights and responsibilities are as members of society. The same issues need to be addressed with regard to the emerging digital society, so that students can learn how to be responsible and productive members of that society” ― Mike Ribble, Digital citizenship in schools

In order to teach digital citizenship, teachers have access to a wide range of resources and information. Does it seem possible that we do not know where to look for these materials? Is it possible that you are unable to find these materials? Do you know what to look for? Apparently, there are some schools that are very serious about teaching digital citizenship. A fellow classmate of mine wrote an article in which she explained how understanding and efficiently using digital tools and resources all come down to prioritizing. She has an excellent idea, just like we do with math and literacy, to make digital citizenship a focus area. Additionally, the optional professional development sessions might need to be made mandatory. Educators can gain a greater understanding of digital citizenship and media literacy by collaborating with tech-savvy co-workers and peer tutors at professional development sessions. They can also use this information to help students develop a more complete picture of who they are as graduates. 

Thank you

Lovepreet kaur