Peer Review

 

Based on the feedback I received from my peers Emma and Sally, they thought that  I needed to expand on my lesson plan as they think that it is too simple but because of the year group I have used for my lesson I don’t believe it needs to be made anymore complex because otherwise the students might feel that the lesson is asking them for too much. From the feedback I did see that I need to go through and re-read my entries for grammatical errors and such. The only changes I made to my blog was editing and adding more graphics to make it interesting and appealing to the idea, this is because I did not believe I needed to change my lesson plan I choose to leave it as it was.

Lesson Plan

Lifelong Learning

Witte (2012)

Your learning doesn’t stop once you finish high school or your tertiary studies, it continues on with you through your life and how you choose to further develop your knowledge is entirely up to you. You could choose to carrying on your lifelong learning through reading books or doing online courses. The digital world has changed the way we learn because people don’t realise it but every time they choose to google something or read about something online they are learning. Lifelong learners are more likely to adjust to new changes in the digital world  and are able to use these new technologies to there full extent because the want and need to learn about the all uses of that technology.

People who choose to voluntarily learn new things and adapt to changes in the world are good characteristics for teachers to obtain as they are able to introduces these changes into to classroom and pass these new skills onto the students.

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” 
― Albert Einstein (Goodreads, 2014)

 

References:

Goodreads, (2014) retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/lifelong-learning

Wittle.(2012). Lifelong Learning[image].Retrieved from http://whartonmagazine.com/issues/summer-2012/wharton-folly-a-playground-of-lifelong-learning/

 

 

Digital Blurring

Digital blurring is the line between our online and real lives and in often cases people can lose focus of what is real and what’s not. This is because over time as games have developed and taken on more features such as communication with others and more entertainment, people forget that the game is not real life and that need to disconnect from the digital world and engage in the real world.

This line is often blurred because online gamers build their profiles up so much that feel like they belong more in amongst the world of the online gamers than they do in the real world this results in them becoming disengaged from the real world. Becuase of the multi-player options and communication of online gaming the players don’t realise that have actually disconnected from the real world because they prefer the digital world more.

People of the “massively multiplayer online role-playing game world aren’t aware of how addicted to this digital world they have become often because their friends are also involved in this world. It is said that people who play online games spend more than half the working week playing the multiplayer online games this is where the line between the online and offline world are blurred when they spend more time online then off.

Digital Fluency

Digital Fluency is the ability to be able to use some form of digital technology without any prior knowledge of that technology before hand. The generation that you grew up in will determine how likely you are to pick up new technologies. This is because people from the generation y or x have grown up surrounded with technology and because of that they are able to adapt to the new technologies easier.

Where as those from the older generations didn’t grow up with being surrounded by Ipads, Computer and the latest software such as Microsoft on their computers and because of this a lot of them still struggle when they have to upgrade their phone or need to use a computer.

To actively participate in the digital world you need to adapt to the changes of the technology and be prepared to continue to learn new things every time you use technology.

In order to create digital fluent children in school we need to include them in activities with technology by doing this we are enabling the students to be better prepared for life after school when they move on to either university or the work force.

Digital Information

Digital Information is pretty much everything we put out about others or ourselves onto the Internet. What happens to the information that we put out can be altered or used against us to scam us. It doesn’t matter if we delete that certain photo or post once you put that information out there and someone saves it we have then lost control of the piece information shared.
That is why we need to think about the information we choose to share on the internet.

Teaching students about the importance how they can protect the digital information they choose to share helps prepare the students for the future when they begin to use the internet to protect themselves from the harms and hazards of that are out there in the digital world such bullying, scammers and their privacy.

When using websites we often look at the website and when first looking at it we often determine whether or not we can trust the information shared on that site. For example we continue to use Facebook to share posts and pictures with friends and family because we trust the website to share things based on our privacy settings.

Digital Divide

This digital divide can be described as the difference between a person who has access to technology  and someone who doesn’t. The digital world is not only the internet as such but also things such as mobile phones or TV’s. It can also be referred to as people who are able to use this technology and those who aren’t able to use it.
Statistics show that over 40% cent of the world population does not have the opportunity to learn how to use a computer.

People who come a low economic background are more likely to not be able to use digital technology and because of that they are not able to have to same opportunities as their fellow class mates and can result in them not having the same chance to learn or even prepare themself for the work force.

I believe to bridge  the gap we need to make technology more affordable to low income families because at the moment people who have a higher income are the ones who are able to afford to buy computer or have internet in their home. So in order for future generations to have equal opportunity in gaining the same levels of digital literacy we need to make it more financially available to low income households.

Digital Security

Digital security is the way a person protects them self on the internet from the dangers of the digital world such as scammers, identity theft or even cyber bullying.

To protect our self from scammers we need to protect our identity online by not responding to scammers who claim that “You have won the lottery” and all I need to do to get that money is follow a few simple steps. Realising what is to good to be true online normally is and that is one step to protecting yourself and if it seems to good to be true ask someone for some advice before sending some money across to world to a stranger.

The issue of cyber bullying is becoming quite serious because the bullies are able to harass their victims 24/7 and that can often impact on that person because they feel everywhere they look online someone is bullying them.
We need to teach our students that they way we treat people online is important because it can have some very damamging effects on that person physically and emotionally.
We also need to teach students that what they put online will be online forever and just because they deleted it doesn’t mean someone else hasn’t that saved picture or comment and won’t re-post it some other time.

Think before you post!

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