Anna Barabba

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Social Media Literacies

Can we teach children how to interpret information on social network sites? As teachers and parents we can advise our youth how to become social media literate. children social networking The increase use of social network sites by children as well as adults has significantly changed how we communicate or how we are more comfortable communicating. The issue however is not only how we communicate it is with whom and how we interpret the messages received, while evaluating whether the information they are exposed to is real or fake. We know that social network sites are not going anywhere, but rather increasing in popularity and use. So yes, we can implement tools and strategies that help users become more literate. Rheingold offers a set of five literacy categories in his article, Attention and Other 21st Century Social Media Literacies . The important literacy categories are: attention, p...

CIPA & COPPA Privacy and Protection for our children on the Internet

Children's Privacy My thoughts on CIPA/COPPA... I appreciate these laws being implemented and put into affect to protect our children's/student's privacy, because I acknowledge the benefits the internet has to offer our children and students. Without these Acts in place the web/internet would not be safe for our youth. With the invention of the web/internet we have gained many opportunities to enhance our knowledge. However, not all sites on the internet are appropriate for our children and they need to be regulated. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) gives parents the opportunity to control what information...

Digital Tattoos = Digital Reputations

I choose to take an adventure into a self guided exploration about Digital Tattoos! Digital Tattoo A digital tattoo generates a positive and/or even a negative digital reputation. A digital reputation evolves from any information about yourself online that is either posted by yourself or others, intentionally or unintentionally. When using any online type of search engine like; blogging, people and sites you follow, updating your status, checking into a location, messaging a friend, like, sharing, or commenting on a post, posting a photo, visiting a website, … everything you do online leaves a trail. This trail contributes to your digital tattoo and digital reputation- REMEMBER THAT! Although this may appear difficult for our students to understand, students have the opportunity to leave impressive trails of their digital reputation if we take the opportunity to teach them how it is done. We can inform ...

Internet Safety- keeping our students and educators protected

Safety Upon reviewing my school's acceptable use policy for technology, I noticed that it focuses on what student's should do to be safe and what sites are available to them to enhance and share their learning experiences. There have been many r ecent informational developments in the area of technology, especially due to the pandemic. Many resources for classroom as well as online teaching are helping to improve the quality of instruction in ways we have never seen before. Without these advanced learning software, students' educations would have been negatively impacted on a greater scale. At the same time, the use of advanced learning software has implications for student's and teacher's privacy. Reflecting upon the ways in which data concerns are present in every aspect of our lives. As educators we need to find a balance between these reinforcers whenever possible. We are obligated to keep our student's ...

Privacy..... does it still exist?

Privacy? What Does that mean🤔? Well I can't say it enough... I prefer my life to be private. However, recently I feel like no matter who I see, what I say, what my political views are, what I search up on social media somehow ends up not being as private as I accepted. The lack of privacy haunts me every day. I have 3 teenage children and my biggest fear is, do my children know who they are interacting with? Can they find out where we live? Who their siblings are? What their parents do for a living (what time are they home and not home throughout the day). Do I know how much private information my children give out on a daily basis? The answer is no, I do not even know how much private information I give out on a daily basis. I found this webinar very interesting about children's safety https://youtu.be/YtvLG6tzmIQ?t=177 . It is important for parents and teachers to teach children about online safety skills. These skills are a...

Affective Growth... Using Professional Learning Network to Engage in Leadership Development

I am looking forward to using Professional Learning Networks to build and develop my leadership skills. I can relate the Affective aspects of learning and teaching because of the reference placed on feelings and emotions. Affective growth benefits for me are that I implement my feelings and values in my teaching, and this allows me to create strong connections with others. It has made me gain a sense of appreciation and enthusiasm for my students and collaborators. Like, Torrey Trust, states, in her PLN Social benefits You Tube video, Trial--> Error --> Learning--> Innovation, will lead to more confident and ongoing learning experience. As I reviewed the infographic, Seven Degrees of Connectedness, I realized that I can associate with Stage 1; the Lurker. I can relate to the following statements; "I follow folks on Twitter, but I am to shy to say anything," and "I don't feel like I have anything worthwhile to add."...