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Five of the Seven
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Everyone, at every age, uses social media to show their audience something they think they'd like. A lot of people post what they think will get the most likes. This can lead to a false online persona that doesn't quite line up with who the real person is. The teenager applying to the Ivy League posted what he felt he needed to keep up with his peers and to be a valid member of the group. A sense of belonging is something that Boyd points out is very important for young people. My Instagram has evolved with how I view others and what I think about what they think about me. I used to post things with the goal of getting likes so I would try to post the best pictures. Now, I don't really care who likes or sees it because I'm more confident and sure of myself as a person. I know that I have people around me that care about me no matter what. I've never posted anything that shouldn't be on the Internet because I was taught from the start that anything I post will be on there forever even if I delete it I never worried about what colleges/employers would see.
I agree with Dewey in that learning should be more collaborative and experience based. I know in school, the class overall would learn better when the teacher put us all in a roleplay scenario because it would make the lesson more personal. Of course, there were some students who would prefer to learn from the book, but for the most part, students learned better the other way. Building a sense of community in the classroom by making students collaborate also makes for better life skills like communication and problem solving which are things that can't be learned from reading a book. You could know a lot about something, but if you're not able to communicate that or if you're difficult to get along with, your knowledge won't be as important to them. However, if you don't know everything at a job but are able to ask questions and get along with most people, the people around you will be more willing to work with you in the future because they know how you think and are able to have fun along the way.
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In the beginning of the reading it talks about how a young man applied to the college he wanted to go to. He wrote in his college admission essay that he wanted to get away from gang life in his community, and make something of himself. The admissions loved his essay and wanted to accept him until they went on to his social media page. They saw gang sybolism, crass language, and reference to gang activities. They decided after seeing his social media account and what was on it, to not accept him. When someone decided to look into why his essay and his social media account said two different things, they found something interesting. He discovered that his social media count wasn't what it seemed. The boy thought he had to post these things to fit in his community. I think though you always need to watch what you post on social media. Even if you delete something or it disappears on snapchat after you send something to someone, it never permantly goes away. You are going to get judged by colleges or potential employers because they think your social media page is how your defined. If you say one thing they will take what you post on social media more seriously because that's how you are portraying yourself to everyone online. Pictures and other information from your youth still come up when you are adults even if you delete it. It can hinder who hires you, and who accpets you into their college.
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Technology isolates you from what is going on in the real world and it can have a major effect on your brain. With social media comes false entertainment and acceptance. People turn to the internet for validation from others, which can be very dangerous. The opinions of other people can be very harmful and can take a toll on you. Exposure to technology at such a young age is harmful for a teen brain because it’s just developing. If you want kids to grow up self-sufficient and capable of making real connections. We have become too heavily reliant on technology to keep us entertained that we have stopped connecting with people on deeper levels. These conversations that we are missing out on are truly necessary to maintain complex relationships with others and oneself because they teach you about fluidity, contingency, and personality.
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The TED Talk discusses how humans have evolved with technology overtime and how it is changing how we interact with one another. It gives us the ability to connect with hundreds of people within minutes all over the world. This quick and speedy access could always negatively affect us because we can become too heavily relient on quick splashes of entertainment. That can affect our attention spans and our relationships with one another and technology. However, the advances in technology also give us a new way to communicate and share our ideas.
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The article is about keeping a track record of how you sleep. But the problem with it all is the woman we follow is more concerned what the statistics say about her rather than how she feels. So she cheats in a sort of way to get better statistics on her app. This alone tells a lot about this person that she's very self conscious about herself and doesn't like to see or hear bad things about herself. I can relate to this as when I recieve nasty emails or texts from people, I instead delete the messge without reading it as it would bother me greatly if I knew what the message said. But we all must learn it does not matter what anyone or anything says about us, but what we say we are. If we let small things like this rule over us, then we hold ourselves captive. How ironic that the jailor would confine themself in their cell when they hold all the keys.
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1. Project
This week, I'm going to start my Ignite Talk! It seems a litle anxiety inducing because the slides change, but I'm excited to start it. I'm going to go into the history of my family, the history of the recipe, the history of the foods I'm writing about, hopefully all will go well! I also sent out my survey over break and got 9 responses!
2. Project
I've been thinking more about the video pathway a little bit more and do not think an interview is feasible anymore because my nonna splits her time at my house and my aunt's house, where she is this week. So, I think I'm going to make little recipe zines instead. Part of my survey asked if my family would like a book of my nonna's recipes, and 100% said yes. For the video, I will now film myself making the zines :)
3. Reading: When Learning and Assessment Diverge
- " A student is not just a data point" - so important
- The author categorizes tests: "Many standardized tests are what I will call “target assessments”. Target assessments tell us how many people out of a designated population have hit a certain target, for example how many can compute fractions at a certain level of correctness." Some target assessments just tell us how many people can hit the target and leave it at that. Let’s call these “cognitively superficial target assessments”. Other target assessments tell us how many people not only can hit the target, but understand what the target (e.g., fractions) means and why it works as it does. Let’s call these sorts of assessments “cognitively deep target assessments”.
- "Too often in schools, we take reading as the main form of experience necessary for learning"
- This is so for good Darwinian reasons: we survive by using the past to move to the future, not by lingering in the past. It is time, I think, for assessment and testing to move into the future, as well.
4. Anything Post - Southern Celebrates Student Leaders
- I was invited to a student leadership appreciation day at Southern! Since I'm the treasurer of Italianissimi, I got to go. There were free t shirts (always a must) and they had donuts and hot chocolate, and a snack bar to show appreciation for the hard work their student leaders like myself do. It was really fun!
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1. Project Beginnings
At first I was so clueless about what I wanted my Do Something project to be, until Dr. McVerry suggested recipes. I knew my nonna had a ton of old recipes, but they're quite tattered and completely not in English. I thought it would be a fun challenge to translate these recipes for my project!
2. Developing My Ideas
I thought about the project a little bit more and chose the video option for my pathway. Since Thanksgiving break is coming up, I could interview my nonna when I'm home.
3. Reading - Rhizomatic Education
- Knowledge as negotiation is not an entirely new concept in educational circles
- A rhizomatic plant has no center and no defined boundary; rather, it is made up of a number of semi-independent nodes, each of which is capable of growing and spreading on its own, bounded only by the limits of its habitat (Cormier 2008). In the rhizomatic view, knowledge can only be negotiated, and the contextual, collaborative learning experience shared by constructivist and connectivist pedagogies is a social as well as a personal knowledge-creation process with mutable goals and constantly negotiated premises.
- I interpreted this as learning has no boundaries, we can learn about anything we choose to - perhaps this is the negotiation Dave speaks of
- New technologies force us to reexamine knowledge and how we learn as a society
- Information is now more accessbile because of the internet, and there is NO BOUNDARY to what we can learn!
4. Badges?
- The focus on badges and alternative credentials is like trying to facilitate global trade by inventing Esperanto
- The premise behind all of the badge and alternative credential projects is the same: that if only there were a new, unified way to quantify, describe and give evidence of student learning inside the classroom and out, employers would be able to appropriately value those skills and illuminate a path to job outcomes - the author compares this to a utopia, an "idealized" solution to transform society
- Compares these online badges to Girl Scout/Boy Scout patches, earning something for something you do that tells the world: "hey! I know a skill!"
- Unlike the author, I actually like the idea of online badges! I have a couple on yelp - he seems to allude this in his article when he mentions certain apps having a badge system.
