A11.4: Week 11 Reflection

Aims and Objectives:

My goals for this week were:

• To take pictures of some augmentative devices that our clinic has available.  I want to do this to prepare my Power Point presentation.
• To complete my assignments.  I wanted to complete my assignments and learn from the experience.  I just didn’t want to do them, I wanted to really learn.  So my main goal was to not just do the assignment but to pay attention to what I was doing and what I was learning.
• To give my groupmates helpful suggestions about their projects.  I want to help my groupmates improve and I hope that they feel the same way.

Declarative Knowledge:

     This week I learned about the final type of digital literacy, socio-economic literacy.  I now know that this literacy helps individuals safely navigate the internet.  It includes knowing proper net-etiquette and being able to protect yourself from predators.  I also was able to learn from my groupmates suggestions.  These suggestions are helping me prepare for revisions to my project and improve upon my work.

Procedural Knowledge:

      This week I began my assignments by going to the class website.  I then responded to my groupmates fifth genre by going to their websites and reading their project.  I analyzed the project and I thought about how the project could be improved.  I posted my thoughts by using the comment feature.  I then researched socio-economic literacy by going to yahoo and typing in the words socio-economic literacy.    I know that I use Yahoo a lot but that is the search engine that I am most comfortable with so I tend to use it instead of other search engines.  I read some articles and gathered my thoughts on this literacy.  I then went to wordpress and posted this assignment.   I then did my journal entries.  My journal entries are my integrating genre so I thought of how I wanted to lead my audience to the answer to my question.  I structured this genre so that it would do this.  I wrote it out on wordpress and added in the links to my pages by highlighting the keywords and clicking on the chainlink.  I then typed in the address of the page and clicked save.  Next week I will add the link to my Power Point presentation.  This is how I completed my assignments this week.

Conditional Knowledge:

     Learning about the digital literacies has been very useful.  The one that I learned about this week will help me protect myself while I am surfing the net.  I think knowing about this will help me keep my kids safe in the future, if I have kids.  The integrating genre has taught me how I can integrate my work so that it becomes a comprehensive piece that answers and important question, which will be helpful to me as a student and professional.  Being able to grow and improve from suggestions will also help me as a future professional.   This is how I can use what I learned.

Question:

Should the integrating genre contain additional information or should it just make your project cohesive?

A11.3: Socio-economic Literacy

   

What is socio-economic literacy?  Socio-economic literacy is a type of digital literacy that deals with the social interactions that occur within the digital realm.  It deals with protecting yourself with in the digital world.  This literacy teaches a person wrong from right and teaches a person how to discriminate good people from bad people in the online community.  I think that this skill is very important especially for children because of all of the predators that are out there. 

 

I definitely agree that there are skills out there needed to be an effective user of this literacy.  You have to be a good judge of character in order to chat in a safe environment.  I also like the rule of thumb to just add people who you know.  I think you have to know what you should do or should not do in order to be safe on the web.  These skills definitely need to be taught.

 

I do not remember ever being taught this type of literacy through school.  I think that my parents tried to teach me this skill when we got a computer.  I look back on when I was a teenager and I use to go to chat rooms and talk to people.  Looking back on it I would not do what I did back then.  Later on when I was in high school I would get on ICQ and chat with people from school.  All of the people on that list were people that I knew.  I would never let an individual that I did not know add me to their list.  I also didn’t publish my address or phone number because my older brother told me not too.  I think that this literacy is very important for children now.  If you watch Dateline or even just pass by NBC when it is on you will see the “To Catch a Predator” specials.  It is amazing how many individuals are out there that solicit underage children for sex.   In my opinion I think that this should be taught in a class.  After reviewing all of the different types of digital literacy I think that these literacies should be taught throughout an individual’s academic career.  I think that a class should be offered in high school or even in college so that people can obtain these skills and use them in their life.  These are my opinions on socio-economic literacy.