Category: Peer Response Posts ( EDCI338)

Peer Response #1- Nando Covelli

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Hi Nando, I really enjoyed reading your post this week! In specific, I think you did a spectacular job outlining the differences between professional and personal identities. I think you made an awesome point regarding how difficult it is to seperate these two, especially in a world more digitalized by the day.

I found it interesting the way that you explained how someone should seperate an individuals personal and professional identity through the Visitor and Resident Map. You compared the Visitor and Resident mode as a strategy to seperate personal and professional identities by utilizing both in both settings. Although I think that is a good point and a simple way to understand the influence our actions can have, I think it may miss the complexity needed to truly increase the seperation between our personal and professional digital identities. I think a better strategy could be understanding the power that lies in the content of a post and the influence that that has on your digital identity. Individuals engage as residents more freely than they believe–just because they are not posting images of themself, it does not mean they are not interacting with others. Many social media platforms have an interpersonal component that may not be visible instantly. For example, even if you do not post regularly on Instagram, commenting on your friends post’s, liking posts and sharing them with friends demonstrates an interpersonal component.

As a result, I think two effective strategies to create a seperation between our personal and professional digital identity that can go alongside the Resident and Visitor map, is to be mindful of what you post, and protect your privacy. To be mindful of your posts, it is important to be critical and think of how your post can be cultural sensitive and respectful to ensure that others are clear on the intention behind what you say. I think some other ways to ensure your accounts are seperated is by being cognoscente of your privacy settings. By ensuring that your privacy settings are tight, such as by making a personal Instagram account exclusive to the friends you approve of, it increases the likelihood that you can maintain a seperation between your personal and proffessional accounts

I enjoyed reading your post this week! I look forward to seeing your perspective of the course material in the future!

Peer Response #2- Andrea Pizot

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Hello Andrea! I really enjoyed reading your blog post this week! In specific, I really liked the way that you highlighted the differences between professional and personal digital identities and how that can look in a person’s day to day life. As you stated, many individuals utilize social media to share big moments in their life, whether that be a scholarship on their professional LinkedIn, or a trip to Vegas on their personal Instagram. I think you highlighted some efficacious ways to create a seperation between your professional and personal identity such as changing and maintaining privacy, but I think another way is to be mindful of what you post. By being cognoscente to be culturally sensitive and ethical, it reduces the risk that your posts can be taken out of context. Even with the strongest privacy settings, we cannot stop other users ability to screen record and share the intimate moments posted on our private pages with the world.

Additionally, I appreciated your comments on David White’s Visitor and Resident map. As we can see through your personal examples, everyone utilizes social media in such unique ways, especially when comparing personal and professional/academic usage. It was mentioned that as we enter a workforce, our usages of certain platforms such as LinkedIn may increase to reflect our new responsibilities. With that being said, I wonder how other stages in life might influence our presence online. For example, I believe that if an individual enters a stage where they start a family, they may become more of a resident on social media platforms such as Instagram or Facebook as they share the changes in their life and the milestones of their little ones.

Thank you for your post this week! I look forward to reading more in the future!

Peer Response #1: Harmony Pierce

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Hello Harmony 

I really enjoyed reading your blog post this week and especially appreciated the way you highlighted the importance of social media in education. You made some good points regarding how social media can be used efficaciously by teachers to create a more engaging learning climate for students. Additionally, I agree with you and feel that social media opens the doors for students to engage with technology in a fashion that allows them to be creative and explore their own interests.

Expanding past the benefits of using social media within a classroom setting, I was wondering how teachers could apply social media efficaciously in the classroom. For example, I believe educators could use TikTok and YouTube to create educational resources for their students that are colourful, engaging and culturally relevant. Accounts on social media such as the Amoeba sisters, crash course and Bill Nye all offer educational content that is informative and engaging but very few school districts, universities or asynchronous programs utilize these platforms in a similar fashion. Additionally, I believe social media could be used to offer creative, personal and educational assessment opportunities for students who are unable to showcase their knowledge through exams or essays. Offering students the opportunity to submit podcasts, blogs, Instagram accounts or videos allows them to showcase their learning.

I also think incorporating social media into education is a great strategy to incorporate digital literacy and digital identity topics into school curriculum. For example, if a teacher assigns a weekly newsletter to students, the learners are given the opportunity to learn and develop their digital literacy skills through practice.

Great job this week Harmony! I look forward to reading your blog posts in the future!

Peer Response #2: Kenna Laundy

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Hi Kenna!

I found your blog post very enlightening! In specific, I was very fascinated by your examples of social media usage and the transmission of knowledge in our current world. I had not previously thought about how social media, specifically TikTok and Instagram Reels, had been used to educate numerous citizens and users about the election and political information. Your blog post led me to do some reflection myself on how much information and knowledge I consume on TikTok. A lot of the initial information I obtain regarding politics, world events and the government comes from TikTok, and despite doing further research, I need to become mindful of the biases that receiving information via social media has. The confirmation bias—the tendency to seek out information that confirms previous beliefs, influences what I search and what articles I click on when I decide to search reputable sources. As you touched on in your Blog post, a huge responsibility when using social media is the ability to recognize our own biases and the biases in article publication.

Being that you are highlighting the practical application of knowledge in social media for the broader population, I would be interested to see if you have any ideas on how we can teach and re-affirm digital literacy skills to the greater public. In this course and many others like it, we focus heavily on the applicability of digital literacy and digital citizenship in a school classroom setting. I believe possible ways to share digital literacy skills to the public could be through implementing initiatives in public spaces such as community centers and public libraries. For example, running workshops to the public on digital literacy in a library or having poster boards available in a community center can allow digital literacy skills to be offered in high-traffic settings. Furthermore, I think creating web-adverts on Instagram, Snapchat or YouTube that include information regarding digital literacy such as internet safety or digital footprints can allow individuals to learn this knowledge as they use social media.

I really enjoyed your post this week! I look forward to seeing your posts throughout the semester!

Peer Response #3: Jason Coombs

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I thoroughly enjoyed getting to learn a little about your interests and your personal history through your post this week! Thank you for sharing!

I personally relate to you about preferring in person connections and relationships with peers. I have always struggled to communicate over social media and have always been drawn to in person connections. This idea left me wondering how we could utilize social media to enhance social connectivity in the classroom. As you said, social media can be used as an accessory to social connections offering ways for people to make plans or create study groups and I wonder if that applicability can be utilized in a school setting. For example, I wonder if there is a way to create social media platforms within classrooms that allow students to share their ideas, knowledge, questions and learning through an interactive online site. This would allow students to bridge in person communication and social media as learners would be able to express themselves and their thoughts creatively in the school and within the restraints of a technological classroom resource.

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts in this module, I look forward to seeing your perspectives in module two!