Month: March 2021

Consider how you can use the PLN interactions of this course to further your digital identity post-term?    

After taking this course, I start noticed that personal PLN can be so helpful to our career and study career, and it is a great tool to share information and experiences. we have learned how to build our own PLN on the platform called WordPress; we also create many posts under the instructions during the course, which gives us a great example of how to maintain our PLN. Also, WordPress is a great open platform that can be use for your opinion expression. In the return, I can learn many things from many great comments. Those interactions create benefits for both of author and reader.  

What does it mean to have a digital identity in your industry of choice and can your current PLN be used to help professional development post-course?

As a university student, having a digital identity in my industry of choice is like having business card for yourself on social media, which helps people to identify who you are on the internet, and getting know you more before the interview(meeting). As a student, we can create many posts on learning, and working experiences in order to get more idea of future career planning. Moreover, those interactions can bring a good reputation to you, which can provide many opportunities in the future. Therefore, I believe that my current PLN be used to help professional development post-course.

Additionally, as you progress through the steps of your career, can your PLN be relied on to open professional opportunities?

No doubt, PLN can be relied on to professional opportunities. For example, a graduate student who wants to apply his first job. Employers can get the first impression before interviews by checking out his PLN. At this point, a thoughtful and nice PLN page can gives he extra credit for job applying. Moreover, Social media helps people to increase their network connection, which provide more chance and opportunities for graduate students.

What is media literacy? Why is so important? Why is it dismissed?

Nowadays, Social media is the major way of information exchange. People from anywhere can communicate each other though the social media. With technology moving forward, people have more ways to obtain information, and we have many big Social media platform like Facebook, Instagram. However, the information is not always true and valid on social media, and some information like fake news can easily to misleading people’s mind. As time move forward, social media has huge impact on the young generation. Media literacy is more like a regulation and framework to access, analyze, evaluate and creating messages. As social media becomes the only place that people receive information(news). In especially, young kids started to blindly believe anything from social media, which brings many risks to our young generation. Therefore, people not only need filtering different content with social literacy, but also should have ability to thinking critically while we receiving information on social media. Information spreads very fast on Social media; therefore, big amount of information cannot always be verified.

Why should you aim for varied views but the factual consensus in your PLN?

Social media is an open accessed platform for everyone, and Not everyone has the same voice on a topic. However, we do need different voices on the social media in order to improve. Publisher will have better solution to something by listening people’s advices from different perspective. Therefore, In my PLN, I will encourage people to get involved, and share their opinion, no matter is approbatory comments or criticize.

Open dialogues about media literacy and factual information can create conflict, why does this happen?

Different people have different opinions base on their education, knowledge, and environment background. the users can demonstrate Media Literacy through aiming for varied views and factual consensus. Sometimes, people need to ensure that the information is reliable and accurate, but it is very difficult to get one reliable accurate when there are too many voices outside. Therefore I think that creates the major conflict.

What is the benefit of having a PLN that values media literacy?

Nowadays, people are extremely reliant on internet (social media) to receiving information. Having a PLN that values media literacy can benefit the most of users by making information more accurate. Also media literacy aims to eliminate thing like cyber-violence, and pornographic information, which creates a better social media environment for young generation.

Works Cited

Miller, Jesse. “EDCI 338 A01- Smith, Julie.” YouTube, 1 Nov. 2020, youtu.be/Z_T9RghwJlI.

– How does the use of PLN raise awareness opportunities in education? Personal

learning network creates great environment for everyone to share their knowledge and ideas. In 2021, education is not limited in the classroom. With Covid -19 pandemic, university are closed, and the most of student are learning from home. We know that face to face learning is currently the most successful teaching method, but advances in technology might change our learning method in the future. With online learning, PLN allow us to interact with each other. For example, platform such as YouTube, and matter most are very useful to our education; it brings many conveniences to our students.

– What is the role of social media in education? Social media plays very important

role in education for both students and educator. It not only provides convenience for education progress, but also provide better learning method. On students’ side, student can access the learning materials any time before the deadline, which is very flexible for them. Also, students can choose the time they feel comfortable to absorb knowledge, which is more efficient way. On the educator side. They have more time on induvial student who need help. Over all, social media play an important and positive role in education.       

– What are some problems with social media communications in education settings?

The problem with social media communications in education settings is student can identify, and a big amount of information cannot always be verified. Also, many bad information on social media is not classifies, which any one can have access for that. Some students will blindly believe anything from social media, which bring many risks to our young generation.

Reference:

Miller, J. (2021). “EDCI 338 – BRAD BAKER.” YouTube, 04 Mar. 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy63SmEpvCw.

Social media can be helpful in creating opportunities and creating new connection with people. Which can benefit people’s careers in the long-term period. Moreover, it can also help people to maintains the old connections. For example, our guest speaker Jody Vance got the job she wants in Sport television show by creating new connection with people. Social media is a double edge sword, and it can cause some side effect. For example, some negatively comments may give you more pressures, and social media may complicate things by making people’s personal information become public. At meantime, social media can exposes people’s strength as well due to Jody Vance’s word. More exposure brings more opportunity as well, and people need to have a clear mind to balancing those benefits and cost in order to get best result. Building a PLN is a good way to increase exposure to the public, and it is a very good chance to show your abilities and advantages to someone who can appreciate you. For the employer social media policy, I totally agree with Jody Vance’s opinion about don’t across the line we already set. Again, people have to balance benefits and costs before making any decisions in order to hit the best result. There are many unfriendly voices like negative replies on social media as well, Sometimes, we should be open to criticism and good suggestions, and ignore the bad stuff. I agree with the Jody Vance’s point that building a good reputation is very hard, but it can be suddenly destroyed. Over all I think we should speak and act cautiously on social media (PLN) to minimizing the risk in sharing improper information.

Reference

Vance, J. (February 28, 2021). EDCI 338 – JODY VANCE. YouTube. https://youtu.be/dgZOJgJkdyI

Hirst, M. (2018). Social Journalism and the Gig Economy. Navigating Social Journalism: A Handbook for Media Literacy and Citizen Journalism. Ch. 6.(pp. 142-143). New York, NY: Routledge.