Digital Citizenship and Flaming

     Before I read the article, Flame First. Think Later: New Clues to Email Behavior, I knew what flaming was, but I didn't know that there was an actual word for it. As someone who uses their social media and phone a lot for communication, flaming is indeed a very real and common thing in the 21st century. It is so much easier to say something over a text message than it would be in person. Partially because you can take time to type out a well thought out answer to a question someone asked and also because it's easier to say something to someone if you're too shy to say it in person. In the beginning of the article, the author mentions this the she interviewed a kid named Jet who said, "Kids will say things to each other in their messages that are too embarrassing to say in person. Then when they actually meet up, they are too shy to bring up what they said in the message. It makes things tense." This can be especially true with online dating because some people may feel a lot more confident by themselves behind a screen than they actually are in person. 

     For the most part, I am very true to myself when I say things online. The people who I talk to online are also my friends in real life, so there is no need for me to act like someone I'm not or say something that I wouldn't say to them in person. Usually, I always analyze what I'm going to post before I actually post it- People should always ask themselves, "Would I say this to them in person?" before they send anything. This will help people build better relationships with people and can diminish things like also fake profiles and cyberbullying.

Texting

I can see where some people may think that texting can make you a bad writer. Since texting is an every day thing for mostly everyone these days, abbreviations and the lack of commas is common in people's way of texting. The way you are taught how to write as a child greatly effects how they write today. For example, in grade school I had a special section on writing and up through middle school and high school, I continued to learn how to write correctly. I text almost nonstop and I don't use silly abbreviations when I turn in a paper. It is shown that with the use of abbreviations, people know what certain abbreviations mean and are using them in a way that makes sense to the person they are sending it to. So, really using abbreviations while texting isn't all that bad because they are correlating and understanding what they mean and how they work in a sentence.

Education Needs a Digital Upgrade

In the article titled, Education Needs a Digital Upgrade, the writer claims that not using technology in classrooms is cultivating how grade school children learn- and not cultivating in a good way. It's suppressing how children's' minds work and how they learn new information. Basically what the writer is saying is that not using technology in classrooms will ruin a kids ability to learn in the 21st century. Reasons why the writer thinks this is because technology is advancing so quickly... So what we are teaching them today could be pointless and useless for them because it will be totally different for them in the next 10 years.

Personally, I agree with what the writer has said. In grade school, we used strictly textbooks and nothing else. My way of learning was confined by only what I could read from my one source of information. Now in college, I am given so much information to use for research papers, projects, and even tutoring for math classes. Technology has opened my mind to so much everything because I have so many sources to get it from so easily. If I wanted to learn about the human brain, I can easily go on the internet and read articles upon articles right then and there.


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The picture from the link above reflects how learning new things can be accomplished right at your fingertips. Your mind can grow so much more with all the information you have and will control how the future works.

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