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September 21st Class Blog

Through our chats about cyber security and FIPPA I think it’s important to realize that everything one does online is public. Whether it’s through Javascript on websites, or flex server space for educational purposes, everything can be accessed. That said mundane measures such as visibility should be customized in order to protect data that the individual may not want readily seen.

This idea harkens back to the idea of social awareness online and the addiction that people form within the online world. The Social Dilemma was a great movie highlighting a lot of these issues:

Going through such movies and issues may prove vital in terms of what data students will consider putting online.

Cell phone use in class has proven to be quite a precarious topic as well at Esquimalt High during my Wednesday class. Thus my partner and I have decided to tackle cell phone addiction/ use in the classroom to see what are the benefits and how teachers are tackling this foreboding topic.

Videos such as these:

Are great launch off tools for seeing what other people have done to address the topic within a university/ workplace setting and really pushes us to discover more avenues of the topic.

My first blog!

Welcome to my blog!

After setting up this ecosystem it was interesting to see and give value to the privacy factor. I’m not sure how prevalent it is in terms of server/ information location based on a lot of these larger companies not being fully transparent on where their information is being stored.

The blog idea is an interesting one in terms of gathering artifacts of learning, as well as being  a platform to connect with peers. I think it may be a great outlet for students to express their identity and (not to age myself but) have a MySpace identity.

I do worry about using mainstream applications though. Using Mattermost does not really make sense to me when an Application like Discord is much more widely used and would be an application students use in future endeavours. Also not using Google Classroom seems a miss, I know that District 61 exclusively using Classroom in order to organize, grade, and give content to their students. Would have been great to use that as our classwork vector.

As I pursued Education I always felt that technology was a great asset. However with COVID it appears as more of a zoom oriented nightmare that is looming over society. Technology now is a corner store of education and is quite intimidating to grasp. Thus I made a fun meme to portray this dismay:

 

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