These were our questions of the week:
- How do we shape our ability to critically evaluate the credibility of information available online?
- How do we represent ourselves online?
In your journal: Please find and share at least one web-based resource and reflect on these questions, or other issues related to the topic of the week and your educational context.
We represet ourselves on line by the content we wish to share, post, and by the persona we create. I have finally given in to my thirteen-year-old son and allowed him to create a facebook page. I stalk his page daily and am amazed at his online persona. He promotes himself as a football obsessed teenager (which he is in the real world), who loves country music. He is also flirting on line. This is so funny to me! He has started listening to country music and I wonder if this is the effect of his facebook friendship with others who strive to create the same type of online presence. I also wonder if he has had any lessons at school on cybersaftey. I wonder, too, if he, as Heverly states, realizes that his online content can, "reappear at inopportune or unwanted moments, are pernicious in nature, being negative and unwanted" (p. 200). I am glad that my group will be working on lessons regarding this issue and will force my son to actually complete our lesson so that he has an idea of how what you post today can bite you in the behind for the rest of your life!
Heverly, Robert A. “Growing Up Digital: Control and the Pieces of a Digital Life." Digital
Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected. Edited by Tara McPherson. The John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA:
The MIT Press, 2008. 199–218.
Resources:
online presence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjFBpomwBC
Web Based Resource:
CyberSmart:
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