Week 3

ETEC 642: Week 3 • Sep 9-15 • Privacy & digital literacy

This week we explore Internet privacy and digital literacy. Indeed, books have been written about both subjects. However, our intent is to gain a basic understanding and how these topics are relevant to learning communities and social media.

Additionally, we will review works posted by others in this class and submit professional and meaningful feedback to each other.

1. Class meeting
2. Commenting professionally
3. Review and commenting on personal introductions
4. Review and commenting on social media demographics
5. Discussion on privacy and digital literacy
6. Weekly post for your reflection blog

ITEMS DUE
Thur Sep 11 - Personal introduction comments (extended deadline)
Mon Sep 15 - Social media demographics comments
Mon Sep 15 - Reflection blog post for Week 3
Mon Sep 15 - Group discussion post in Facebook group

CLASS MEETING
We will meet on Monday, Sep 8, from 6-8 pm. Sign in by 5:45 pm to do an audio test.

Sign-in to our BBC virtual classroom 15-20 minutes prior to the start of class to complete an audio test with you:

 http://bit.ly/bert-voffice

Other meetings are tentatively scheduled for:
September 22, October 6, 20, November 3, 17, 24, & December 8.

COMMENTING PROFESSIONALLY
Community building means listening (or reading) and sharing your understanding and personal views with others with empathy, kindness and in a professional manner. Questioning and disagreement are vital to achieving deeper learning of complex issues.

This week, we ask you to review and comment on the works of your classmates.

Comment as a professional and a colleague, not socially. Avoid jargon and slang. Your comment should reflect what you have read along with your thoughts or reactions to the post.

Spread your comments among the class members so that everyone receives the same number of comments.

Two or three well-written paragraphs will suffice. We strongly recommend composing your thoughts OFF-LINE and then copying and pasting it to your comment text box.

• Be sure to click Reply below someone's comment instead of creating an entirely new comment
• Be sure to leave a BLANK LINE between paragraphs to help your readers.

PERSONAL INTRODUCTIONS
Review the posts of your peers. Comment directly on a minimum of five (5) other introductions created by your class members. [Note: Email incorrectly stated three (3) comment posts]

http://ltec642.blogspot.com/p/your-personal-introduction.html

SOCIAL MEDIA DEMOGRAPHICS
Review and comment on a minimum of three (3) of the deliverables posted by your classmates.

http://ltec642.blogspot.com/p/demographics.html

REFLECTION BLOG
By now, you should have created and started your reflection blog with two initial posts.

http://ltec642.blogspot.com/p/reflection-blog.html

Be sure that your blog allows for users to submit comments. To minimize unwanted spam (there are zillions of spammers out there), set your preferences to moderate posts. However, this means that you need to monitor it daily for comments and allow those from your classmates or those that are professionally submitted.

Continue with a minimum of one post a week. For this week, our suggestion is to post your personal thoughts about discussions held during this week's class session:

• What further thoughts (or after thoughts) do you have about our class discussion topics this week?
• What points made do you fully support (or not support). Why?
• How might you implement the discussion topics in your own classroom?
• Are class meeting discussions helpful for learning? Why?
• How can these discussions be improved?

However, you are free to reflect on any aspect or topic related to this class. This blog is intended as a learning tool. Feel free to integrate visual components such as images, gif animation or videos into your blog post. Push yourself to expand your expertise in working with today's technologies.

INTERNET PRIVACY & DIGITAL LITERACY
With the ubiquitous nature of today's technology, encouraging users to develop good practices in dealing with personal privacy is extremely important. Likewise, using digital technology, tools and networks to locate, evaluate, use, remix and create information in an efficient and productive manner is an important life-long skill.

We will discuss two key questions during our class meeting this week:

• What key practices would you recommend to minimize the loss of personal data?
• What are three key facets of digital literacy?

Write a brief summary (1-2 paragraphs) of your group's discussion and post it to the Social Media For Educators (SM4Ed) Facebook group. List the members of your team by first or nickname. One person will serve as the group's recorder / writer.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SM4Ed/

If you haven't received an invitation to join the group, please contact Rian <rbarrera@hawaii.edu>.


READINGS

Digital Literacy

University Library, University of Illinois, UIUC. (2008). Digital Literacy Definition and Resources. Retrieved from http://www.library.illinois.edu/diglit/definition.html

Wheeler, S. (2013). Can we teach digital literacies? [blog post]. Retrieved from http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2013/09/can-we-teach-digital-literacies.html

Wheeler, S. (2012). Digital literacies for engagement in emerging online cultures. Retrieved from http://elcrps.uoc.edu/ojs/index.php/elcrps/article/view/1708/n5-wheeler

Internet Privacy

Hanburger, E. (2014 March 13). The era of Facebook is an anomaly. Retrieved from http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/13/5488558/danah-boyd-interview-the-era-of-facebook-is-an-anomaly

Timm, T. (2014, May 3). Technology law will soon be reshaped by people who don't use email. Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/03/technology-law-us-supreme-court-internet-nsa

Madden, M., Lenhart, A., Cortesi, S., Gasser, U., Duggan, M., Smith, A., & Beaton, M. (2013). Part 1: Teens and Social Media Use, Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/05/21/part-1-teens-and-social-media-use/

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