Weekly Reflection Report Week #12

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the final week, this class has been a great experience and this week is the last hurrah. The class has really helped me understand the necessity and path towards making a positive digital Footprint.

I learned that as a digital citizen I must follow the nine elements of digital citizenship, Access, Commerce, communication, literacy, etiquette, law, rights and responsibility, health, and security. And although all the elements are equally important in their own rights I found five of the nine elements particularly resonated with me. Those five elements are Digital Communication, Digital literacy, Rights and Responsibility, etiquette and law.

I learned the importance of communication through participating in the group project. As such the project will effectively go down the drain if there is no proper communication is not maintained between the group members. Proper communication is especially important when the team is not in the same room as you.

I have used this many times in by previous blogs but I never get tired of saying the fact that with great power comes great responsibility (I love Spiderman… so excited that he will be in the new movie). But as much as this sentence holds true for getting superpowers from a radioactive spider it is equally true for the having access to limitless knowledge through the internet. To be an effective digital citizen one must follow the outlined guidelines. This very effectively brings me the next element digital law, despite popular belief the internet is not the Wild West (which recent studies have shown was not that wild anyways). The law also applies to the internet and that fact that it is such a transparent system it is actually very easy to track down the wrongdoer. I am sure that none of my audience is in any shady business, however, as student the main concern we should be in areas surrounding academic misconduct and the only thing I can say is DON’T DO IT!!! (For all the auditory learners I have attached a catchy song to one of my previous blogs).

 

In terms of promoting appropriate digital behavior in other and helping other to develop the knowledge. I believe the best things I can do is to is to continue my blog because as the title of my blog says “Working towards creating a positive digital footprint” it is a marathon and small things can make a huge difference.

Finally I week I don’t want to share an article from my Feedly but instead, I read an interesting article on the side effects of banning plastic water bottles (Click Here). Yes… just like you guys I too found it hard to believe that how can something like that have any side effects. But the results of a study conducted by a nutrition professor Rachel Johnson, of the University of Vermont showed that the even after installing water fountains to accommodate reusable water bottles students instead switched to soda and energy drinks. This can have real consequences as it leads to empty calories and excessive sugar intake which in turn adds to the growing obesity and health problems. I article just makes me feel cynical as it leads me to believe that people don’t want to be reformed and we are very good at trading one evil for another.

That’s all for today folks.
Kev