During Connected Learning, all of us were handed a booklet on online behaviour. Over the last few connected learning periods, all of us have wrote down our thoughts on a few topics and what they meant to us. After that, we had a big class discussion on each one and how we can use them in everyday life. The topics that we went through were Young and e-Safe , Critical Thinking, Empathy, Respect, Responsibility
YeS Project
To start of the booklet, we watched this video and spent the rest of the lesson having a class discussion and reflection the video. During the video, what I noticed the key message was that, the introduction of new technology has completely shaped everything. Campaigns have started, governments have fallen on their knees. So many goods things have happened, but the problem is that they are taking over our life and shaping the future that we have. We shouldn’t let them do that, do we want a future we like or a future revolutionized by phones. We then talked about the negative and positive influences of social media that we have and how the ideas in the video influence our College Values of ERIC (Empathy, Respect, Integrity, Courage). I personally thought that Social Media allows you to be more empathetic. On the news, we hear stories of people struggling or disastrous things that have happened to a country. By doing that, the news has allowed people from all over the world to put themselves in other people’s shoes showing empathy, which then falls into respecting other peoples situation, feeling for others, and take a stand to support them no matter the troubles.
Critical Thinking:
Next, we talked about Critical Thinking. I think that Critical Thinking is judging everything you see on the internet and making wise choices about it, not going blindly and doing the action, critically thinking about the consequences after attempting the stunt. During this unit, we watched a video on Critical Thinking. (https://vimeo.com/229069996). After watching this video, I learnt to think before I act. Don’t trust anything or anyone you see because it may be fake. So always think, if you see something really cool, cause it may be fake.
Empathy
The 3rd aspect of the booklet focused on our E in ERIC which is empathy. It was about feeling for other people an taking a step in their shoes. https://vimeo.com/229070005https://vimeo.com/229070005
Respect
The next online behavior we looked at was respect. Respect is just being nice to others no matter how they look or how other people view them. Generally means, be nice to others and respect them. In this unit we talked about what it takes to loose respect and what it takes to gain respect. If you want respect, you have to give it as well
Responsibility:
As the last unit, we learnt about responsibility and what it means to be responsible online. It means protecting privacy, knowing your rights and responsibilities, thinking about the impact of your actions and consequences, and respecting the law.