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.
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