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Credits: www.pinterest.com This this topic, we were tasked to find out the advantages and disadvantages of content producers publishing their materials freely on the internet. After stating my views, i reached a conclusion stating that paywalls should exist but not for publications of health research or something that would benefit the society. Through reading of various posts by my fellow course-mates, i saw a trend on what the advantages of having materials posted freely. Continue reading →

Credits: Natasha Starkell The picture above basically sums up in 3 years time how 90% of online information would be like from the post by Stephen Lepitak. In the post, a survey shows that media content and educational information would be heading towards having paywalls to increase profit margins of companies. Ultimately, the question goes back to what is the goal of the content producer. Is it to improve the lives of people or is it for self gain through the use of paywalls. Continue reading →

Credits: Heiddi Zalamar When i started on this topic, I took the approach and looked at it from an educational perspective. I focus on cyber bullying and the effects that came along with it. Through reading of the other posts made by my fellow course-mates, I learnt a lot about the unethical approaches taken up by companies as well. Reading through the post by Issac, it opened up my eyes to how actions by companies are not as simple as it seems. Continue reading →

Discuss ONE of the ethical issues raised by educational OR business use of social media that you consider to be particularly significant. In recent years, thanks to the huge growth in the use of various social media networks around the world, many people have found their “voices” online. Continue reading →

In this topic, we were tasked with posting on what we felt was needed to build an “authentic”professional online profile. Through reading of the different blogs by fellow course-mates, I gained many valuable insights from the different approaches everyone took. Angie’s post showed the depth to which companies went to search out information about about candidates. Continue reading →

Gone are the days of waiting in line for a face to face interview with a potential company without them first knowing much details about us. Today, everything revolves around the use of technology and the internet. Thanks to the reach of the internet, online recruitment is made possible. Credits:Adecco Canada To get accurate information about applicants, companies do various background checks of the applicants on the web. Continue reading →

(credits: Victor Perez) After reading various posts from different course-mates. I found that almost half stands on the side of being for having multiple online identities and the other against it.    Novina believes that having multiple identities was perfectly fine. we both agreed that to different people, we reveal ourselves to different degrees. An example would be us in our daily lives. Our student(assuming you are a teacher) for example will not know us well as a friend. Continue reading →

Over the years, the Internet has seen a gradual change from being about anonymity and privacy in accessing information to us (consumers) being able to create information ourselves. One of the biggest contribution to this change in my opinion would be the start of social media platforms such as Facebook and Google. The moment an account is created, your digital identity has been created. And anyone can view you just by typing your name on search engines. Continue reading →

The idea of the digital “resident” and “visitors” was an update from Prensky’s original research on digital “natives” and “immigrants” (2001) where his research is based on the notion of age. Over the years Prensky’s research was seen to be rebutted by many including McKenzie(2007) and Kennedy(2010). Continue reading →