Weekly Report & Reflection #8

This week was huge in the way of exploring digital tools and rights! Not only did I learn more about wikis and how they can support learning, but I also gained more knowledge on the importance of being a digital citizen that knows and understands the rights and responsibilities that come with being an upstanding digital citizen!

My wiki exploration was much needed as I was slightly unclear about the use of wiki's and how they could aid in my learning. I discovered this week that wiki's allow not only for collaboration, but can actually also aid in peer reviewing, a very important aspect for me personally as a psychology student! Since many psychology studies need to be peer reviewed, it was interesting to learn about how wiki can function as a more informal peer review process to gain further understanding of how to effectively collaborate and idea share to make great content that has been approved by others. Check out this great blog post which helped aid in my understanding of wikis by clicking HERE.

Week after week I am also finding myself learning more and more about becoming a responsible digital citizen within the digital world! I created the diagram below after my exploration of the three most important digital rights and responsibilities I feel need to be better understood! Privacy, content ownership and free speech are the three which stood out to me most for the reasons listed below!

Stark, S. (CC) 2016

A great resource which aided in my understanding of digital rights and responsibilities is the textbook for this course called "Digital Citizenship in Schools" by Mark Ribble. I found a great online resource which covers his discussion of the Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship for my readers to check out (click HERE to view it). I highly recommend knowing and understanding how to appropriately utilize online tools in a way which doesn't jeopardize yourself and others and am glad that this is an area I have been able to develop over the last seven weeks of this course! 

Since the emphasis in this course has been on digital collaboration and communication the past two weeks, I wanted to share this video about how communication can go wrong in person and how we can become better communicators. Through collaborating online and finding it more effective than in person, I found myself wondering why group projects seem to be that much more complicated face to face. Thanks to my tracking TedED on Feedly, I found a great video on how miscommunications happen face to face, why this occurs and ways to overcome it to successfully communicate with others. To check out this great video, click HERE.

Thanks for reading!