Guest Speaker – Jesse Miller @mediatedreality

https://twitter.com/MediatedReality

Jesse Works with Social Media, having the conversation with teachers and students to help them understand the internet.

Here are some interesting highlights of his talk today:

Internet/App By-Products

This can be easily looked up on the internet. All (?) but definitely most things that occur on the internet have by-products that are saved and used for another purpose. Google “internet by-products” “saved information from free apps” to find more information

An Example of this:

Captcha (Prove you are not a robot by picking all the cars in this 9×9 grid)

  • by-products of when people verify that they are not a robots are in fact used to teach computers (Artificial Intelligence) to recognize objects, people, lights, powerpoles, etc to be used in self-driving cars in the future.

 

Sometimes the conversation around the internet will only focus on internet safety, but we need to talk about our networked citizenship.

It is important to ask yourself – what is your_______?: 

  • Digital Identity – online; multi-versions of ourselves.
  • Digital Rights – screenshots & sends to a thousand photos (2014) – intimate images act; can’t show photos to people legally.
  • Digital Literacy – people and behaviours changing, what is “normal dialogue around technology,internet”
  • Use – Personal, Professional, and Social
  • Safety
  • Security of self

HEADLINES – designed to get people to click  by causing an emotional response.

Some examples of headlines:

Should Your Child Have a Social Media Account?

This article is BIASED but this is a questions that everyone should be asking

  • differentiated between needs and ages.
  • how is media being used? what platforms, apps, media do people  choose based on their use and preferences

Why Social Media is Not Smart for Middle School Kids

  • good science, under developed and not prepared. don’t have enough data.

The Kids (Who Use Tech) Seem to Be All Right

  • anxiety linked to social media

 

“We shape our tools and, thereafter, our tools shape us” – John Culkin

 

A Double Edged Sword

Media and technology can be a positive addition to our lives but also has a lot of potential to be misused.

August 1941 – movie horrors & radio crime – “radio is causing nightmares” – content is what is the problem, not the technology, how did that technology shift society. double edged sword.

Cyber Bullying – important to know how to deal with bullies, who to talk to, how to avoid providing opportunities to a bully.

#teacherproblems

teachers fired over social media incidents

check with your school and district about appropriate communications. Understand policies and expectations.

any social media issues, texting, communicating – the more discussed and boundaries and expectations set the better it will work. Think of social perceptions.

Acceptable use

  • what is reasonable
  • aehaeb family – fortnight dances in their vestibule
  • struggling with communications balance
  • work phone – should school districts provide these? or should your personal device be used?
  • engage with and incite dialogue with technology

Stakeholders in Social Media, media use 

  • staff
  • parents
  • students

AS a TEACHER

  • cant share students personal information on the internet
  • ethos of care in social sharing
  • speak to that we are not in a silo – the internet is wide open and we should not share information as everyone can see.

The Internet is a public space! REMEMBER THIS! and be wary of boundaries, lines and what is acceptable. Talk to your admin, think before you do anything.

Gaming

  • team sport! collaborative, esport teams!
  • demographic changes and interest changes
  • entertainment value, business, skill building
  • full scholarships for this to Universities
  • door to having students in building and ability to teach them connect with them, give them value.
  • pro-logic thinking, problem solving, abstractions, etc. (very positive)
  • upholding and valuing things equally and recognizing diverse and broad needs. community.
  • still need to discuss balanced and healthy life styles, physical healht, outdoor activity, respect their interests and they will respect you.

Reading Suggestions:

  • Astra Taylor – The people’s Platform
  • Pete Etchells – Lost in a good game
  • Jason Rekaluk – The Impossible Fortress
  • Darren O’Donnell – Haircuts by children
  • Lee Humphrey’s  – The Qualifed Self
  • Nancy  Baym – Personal Connection
  • Amy Adele Hasinoff – Sexting Panic: rethinking criminalization, privacy and content
  • Moral Combat Patrick Markey & Christopher Ferguson
  • Social Media: Pedagogy and Practice