Hi Shirley,
Thanks so much for posting information about the This is me project. The workbook content is great and the worksheets and activities look like they could be very useful and interesting ways to engage students in conversations about their digital identities in relation to various contexts.
How have these worksheets and activities worked in practice? Have students been responsive to the activities involving role playing, for example? It is wonderful to hear about new ways of facilitating learning in this arena.
And, thanks for sharing the information about the other Eduserv projects related to digital identity. I'm eager to follow up on them.
Cheers,
Trish
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Hi folks,
Vance, thanks so much for your thoughtful posting. Lots of great stuff to think about and explore further. In particular, I was intrigued by your approach to learning from your network via tools like Twitter.
I was in a meeting just the other day with some colleagues who noted some of the benefits and challenges of keeping up with Twitter..."keeping up" being what frustrates some folks. Your posting highlights for me a great alternative way of thinking about "keeping up" --> learning what you can as you're able and knowing when to move on and not feel the need to keep up with everything posted by everyone in your network.
One of the key areas in my work with students is helping them search and sift through the wealth of research and information at their disposal to find key sources which will support their research assignments, projects. An important element of this process is knowing when to move on, but it can be a very difficult step as there is often a mistaken belief that there is one perfect source that will facilitate learning and understanding. I also like the network approach because it highlights the fact that it is the multiplicity of sources, people, viewpoints that enriches learning.
Cheers,
Trish
Vance, thanks so much for your thoughtful posting. Lots of great stuff to think about and explore further. In particular, I was intrigued by your approach to learning from your network via tools like Twitter.
I was in a meeting just the other day with some colleagues who noted some of the benefits and challenges of keeping up with Twitter..."keeping up" being what frustrates some folks. Your posting highlights for me a great alternative way of thinking about "keeping up" --> learning what you can as you're able and knowing when to move on and not feel the need to keep up with everything posted by everyone in your network.
One of the key areas in my work with students is helping them search and sift through the wealth of research and information at their disposal to find key sources which will support their research assignments, projects. An important element of this process is knowing when to move on, but it can be a very difficult step as there is often a mistaken belief that there is one perfect source that will facilitate learning and understanding. I also like the network approach because it highlights the fact that it is the multiplicity of sources, people, viewpoints that enriches learning.
Cheers,
Trish
Valerie, Cynthia,
Interesting to hear about your experiences of finding information about yourself that you expected , as well as those unexpected surprises about others with your name. Raises an interesting question:
How can we distinguish ourselves and our digital identity from others to ensure that prospective employers, colleagues, collaborators, students, others know who's who?
And, Valerie, I really appreciate the link you've made between sharing and a civil society.
Kittilson & Dalton from UC Irvine have done some interesting research related to this. For me, it confirms the notion that what we share contributes to:
Trish
Interesting to hear about your experiences of finding information about yourself that you expected , as well as those unexpected surprises about others with your name. Raises an interesting question:
How can we distinguish ourselves and our digital identity from others to ensure that prospective employers, colleagues, collaborators, students, others know who's who?
And, Valerie, I really appreciate the link you've made between sharing and a civil society.
Kittilson & Dalton from UC Irvine have done some interesting research related to this. For me, it confirms the notion that what we share contributes to:
- building trust in people outside our immediate personal networks
- sharing our cultural, social and political interests
- learning from the sharing of others about the world and the world as others experience and live it
- building a civil society
Trish
Hi folks,
Welcome to the session! We're keen to connect with all of you about the topic of digital identity and the wide range of very interesting questions about it.
This week our theme focuses on us and our digital identities. We'd like to get things rolling by asking everyone to engage in two activities.
Activity 1:
Visit MIT's Personas, part of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit at the MIT Museum. This site "creates a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you." Just enter your name and see what you find out about yourself.
Activity 2:
Take a look at
Questions to Consider
Cheers,
Trish
Welcome to the session! We're keen to connect with all of you about the topic of digital identity and the wide range of very interesting questions about it.
This week our theme focuses on us and our digital identities. We'd like to get things rolling by asking everyone to engage in two activities.
Activity 1:
Visit MIT's Personas, part of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit at the MIT Museum. This site "creates a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you." Just enter your name and see what you find out about yourself.
Activity 2:
Take a look at
.
Questions to Consider
- How does Personas represent you on the Internet? What/who is included? What/who is missing?
- "You are what you share." What do you think about this statement from the Leadbeater video? Is this an ideological position? (Thinking about Norm Friesen's work here). What are the implications related to digital identity?
Cheers,
Trish