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#DigCiz Week 4 – Big Data Big Dreams: waking up about data collection in edtech
It is week 4 of #DigCiz and Kristen Eshleman and Bill Fitzgerald are leading us in a week of discussion around data security and the part that higher education institutions play. In the prompt Kristen questions the context of EDUCAUSE’s top 10 issues in IT and information security’s place in the #1 slot saying “when you…
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What is DigCiz and Why I am Not Marina Abramovic: thoughts on theory and practice
Theory Alec Couros and Katia Hildebrandt just finished a round of facilitation in the #DigCiz conversation where they challenged us to think about moving away from a personal responsibility model of digital citizenship. In a joint blog post they spend time distinguishing digital citizenship from cybersaftey and present Jole Westheimer’s work identifying three different types of citizens…
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Thoughts on Sync Video Conversations
It has been a while since I’ve posted – I’ve been dealing with a bit of writer’s block. Theoretically, politically, philosophically my mind is racing too fast and I can’t seem to get any of it down. To try to break the block I’m going to set it all aside and go for a simple…
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Going Clear: A Call for Conversation around the Ethics of Mobile Live Streaming from #OER17 and Other Events
Last year I read Dave Eggers’ The Circle, a dystopian novel about technology, social media, and society gone wrong. By the end of the novel the lead character is engaging in a process called “going clear” where she is live streaming her entire life save sleeping and going to the bathroom. It is pretty creepy.…
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The Paradox of Inclusion: Reflections prior to presenting at #OER17
Some of us have been accepted to present at OER17 reflecting on Virtually Connecting (VConnecting or VC) as an approach to open and inclusive conferences. The name of our panel is Breaking the physical presence barrier: Virtually Connecting as an approach to open, inclusive conferences. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to present with…
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Associative Trails Around DigCiz, Fake News, and Microtargeting
Microtargeting: A Digital Citizen’s Perspective I started writing this post about fake news and microtargeting a few days ago and then I was reminded that #OpenLearning17 was talking about Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think this week. I began to see connections between how they might relate. It made this post even longer but I…
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When Free Beer Leaves Me Cold: Declaring Interest in #OpenLearning17
I’m super excited that some of my favorite Virginia educators have gotten together to do a cMOOC! #OpenLearning17 started today and I’m so thrilled to follow along and learn with a great community. The syllabus says this week is for introductions, blogs, and working with a connected learning coach. There is also a great reading all…
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Growth in Presenting: reflections on “combating fake news”
Yesterday I presented Combating Fake News: Critical Consumption and Digital Citizenship during Capital University’s Martin Luther King Day of Learning. It was really exciting to dig a little deeper on one aspect of digital citizenship rather than just give a broad overview. This is such a tricky topic because it is not about “fake news” really. Or…
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Further Defining LOOM: autonomous persistence in relation to ethos
I was asked to be part of a panel discussion at the Winter Symposium on Digital Literacies in Higher Education as a part of my work with Virtually Connecting. This time I not only had distance as a barrier but also time – I had a meeting scheduled at the same time. The panel was…
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On Listening and Beauty: Freire hears a Horton and I hear a call
Bryan Alexander’s most recent book group around We Make the Road by Walking has caught my attention. There are several reasons for this but a big part of it is the community response; especially the Temporarily Embarrassed Millionaires post by Bonnie Stewart where she calls for a community to develop around the teaching of digital…