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My Digital identity

Feb20

  It is the first time that I have had to identify my online identity and acknowledge it.  My method of representing myself online is the same as my method in person, despite having not had to face this question before.  Transparency is something I deeply believe in; what you see is what you get. When you are in college, you are supposed to be independent and independent in your thinking. However, when you share these thoughts with others through social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram it can prove to be challenging. The shared opinions and ideals often offend people. During college, a student has the opportunity to establish a solid foundation for a professional career through academic achievements; however, online identities can have negative consequences. Heinrichs writes about being authentic when speaking to an audience and expressing your truth. Having the freedom to interact however you want, even when it is online, is challenging for me as an undergraduate. Even though I try to maintain my identity online, it is challenging.

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      Because my family didn’t have a computer in the house when I was a child, the only time I saw one was in elementary school computer class. After learning more about the internet and its dangers as I grew older, I started hearing about children being online predators and personal information being stolen. Myspace and Facebook became popular when I was in high school, however, my mother forbade me from having an online profile until I was in my junior year.  As I became a young adult, and began college, I began to build my online profile more. My college experience gave me complete access to a computer and a smart phone with apps, which allowed me to access social networking sites across a multitude of platforms. My first reason for signing up for a Facebook account was to stay connected with friends, family, and coworkers. After that, for this class, I created a Twitter account because it was a convenient and quick way to share thoughts with others and use hashtags to connect with others.  To share and learn about other people’s ideas and inventions, I created a YouTube channel and a Pinterest page so that I could also share my love of music, fashion, cooking, hair, and make-up. Even later, looking back, the things I posted and shared don’t make any sense.  Social media wasn’t being used as intended by me, and I found myself in a place where I wish I hadn’t connected with the internet in the first place. After receiving messages from people on social media, I began to interact with them. That’s not a bad thing, is it? No, it’s not. As a result of some of these conversations, I became close friends with some really incredible people.

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Digital Identity and Citizenship Connection

My academic persona and online identity are more different than similar, I notice. My online sharing of ideas was a reflection of discussions I would have with my peers and even mentors. People can interpret things differently whether in person or online, which makes it hard at times to convey your message. We believe that everything should be perceived the same whether in person or online. Some differences arose because of things I heard or saw in the past that made me hesitant to share too much personal information. Sharing information about things I would rarely discuss with others was unusual for me. Throughout many of my social media sites, I was associated with people who shared private and sacred information for me to see. I came to believe this because people were sharing so much about me. Honestly, I believe you shouldn’t share everything you have to deal with everyone because not everyone cares to hear about your success or failures. I feared that if I shared too much information on my social media, they would not take me seriously as a scholar since I shared so much information with them. 

Digital citizenship and the shared commons were discussed on the topic of digital identity, while acknowledging that citizenship poses a number of issues relating to borders, empire, and power. Essentially, digital identity and citizenship go hand-in-hand, because as we become identities together, we shape the space we all live in. However. As far as I am concerned – and I still think I was right about this – the other side of the argument did indeed blindside me. I hadn’t fully recognized how digital identity contradicts the notion of cooperation and collaboration, two aspects of digital citizenship I needed to understand before standing in front of the keynote audience.

Major project with Ribble’s nine elements

Feb6

As I did not use much digital resources in my teaching and learning but now, I know, not much but few digital sites that really helpful for learning math’s. Out of these resources I really like the desmos as it provides equal opportunities to every student. I have used the Desmos graphing calculator few times, and I must say that it works pretty well for graphing most functions. Well, it is true that for learning & understanding Math’s, we really don’t need a graphing tool but sometimes it really helpful for the students and teachers to understand it very well. It has a lot of applications such as graphing calculator, scientific calculator, four function calculator, and, matrix calculator that really helps the students and teachers to do mathematics.

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In the starting I planned that I will only use two to three elements of Ribble but after reading, Nine Elements (digitalcitizenship.net) about all the elements I realised that, Ribble’s nine elements such as (a) Digital access (b) Digital commerce (c) Digital communication and collaboration (d) Digital etiquette (e) Digital fluency (f) Digital health and welfare (g) Digital Law (h) Digital rights and responsibility (i) Digital security and privacy, all are completely fit into using Desmos curriculum while learning mathematics, as it provides equal distribution to teachers & students. Teachers can use this as a teaching resource and students can enhance their mathematical knowledge by bringing digital media into their education. Because of its interactive and creative activities, it provides equal opportunities to each and every student. That means it is equally digital accessible to everyone. According to the second element, definitely, it is best way for digital communication and collaboration and use of desmos is very flexible and creative as it is a blend of paper and technology. Moreover, it provides an open platform to teachers & students to enhance their problem-based thinking, and encourage collaboration. With the help of “Desmos’s MATH curriculum and design”, it become a best facilitation tool for everyone.   

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There is no doubt that it is a time-consuming process to create good interactive resources but I use this instead of using a PowerPoint specially when teaching Live, i.e., in online classes. During covid- time, I used it for first time while teaching my cousins and the experience was awesome!! It has a lot of benefits such as: it is easy to pick, scope of improvement in every concept. Moreover, it provides more chances of interactions between students and teachers. Overall, I believe that, it is a fantastic tool to learn math’s. Now, I am looking forward to learn about more digital tools such as Flipgrid, Scribjab, and story book Canada from this class and class fellows, so that I can try new things in my classroom.

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Exploring & Learning new Digital Media!!

Jan23

When I started my master classes, I am not much aware of the digital sites which are very helpful for education field, but my master degree classes helped me a lot to learn more about digital sites which are really useful for teachers and students who are socially isolated. And, it has a lot of benefits such as it can keep us connected, helps increase social connectivity, improves communication speeds, and it provide more and more learning opportunities.

There is no doubt I am using Facebook, Instagram, and many other social media sites for a long period of time but to be very honest, I am not a social media- friendly person. In my previous classes, I learnt about multimedia sites such as jam-board, sketchpad, mentimetre, scribjab and many more which are very easy to use.

Inspite of the innovation of so many digital sites, I believe, the present traditional system demands too much from a teacher because a teacher is the only person who can makes the best use of all available resources. Therefore, to make teaching learning more effective, teacher should adopt different strategies and perform various activities to facilitate learners to acquire certain skills and qualities.

As I came from the rural area of India which is not completely develop in the field of digital media, and during my school time, school did not have the enough digital resources to teach their students, so this is the main reason I am choosing the topic “Personal journey into media” as my major project. So, that I can share my journey via these blogs.

–It’s time to step up to the plate and get passionate about your work commit to making eLearning courses that don’t bore people to tears, but instead inspire and motivate them to learn a new skill, change a certain behavior, or improve their performance. – Cammy Bean

I am hoping to learn new digital sites which are very helpful in the field of education. Looking forward to learning more new digital tools and new skills from you all!!

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It’s all about me

Jan21

I am Lovepreet Kaur, a full-time student of University of Regina, studying Master of Education( curriculum & instruction). I have done my bachelor’s of Education in India. Basically, I am from India, currently living in Regina, Saskatchewan. I used to teach primary classes in India. So, being a math teacher, I would love to explore digital sites, and digital tools, that helps the students to do their projects and worksheets.