Week one - The internet & About me
Welcome fellow classmates to my blog "Asham Classroom" I am excited for this semester and for learning all about Education and the internet!
My name is Dustin Asham, I was born and raised in Brandon, graduating from Vincent Massey High School in 2013. I began attending Brandon University after a brief baseball career in Australia from 2013-2015. I enrolled at Brandon University in the fall of 2015. I majored in Physical Education with a major in Geography, I graduated from my undergrad in 2019. Beginning in 2019 I enrolled in the Bachelor of Education After Degree.
I found this weeks information extremely informative as I never really understood the difference between the "internet" and the "world wide web" I was surprised to learn that the internet has been around for much longer the then world wide web. I learned that the internet actually dates back to the 1950's and the world wide web is much more recent.
Of course when talking about the internet and world wide web from an educators perspective it is important to take privacy into account. Privacy is huge when you are in schools and working with students especially because they are under aged youth. As an owner of a smartphone I have experienced first hand the effects of our phones "listening" to us. For example, I have been talking about and researching king size beds lately and now the only advertisements that I get are for king size beds and mattress's. Now I do fins this convenient at times I do feel like it is a little bit of an invasion of my privacy.
Now, of course as a teacher I will need to carefully monitor my online footprint and what I post or share. I have had the pleasure (if that is what you would like to call it) of having a class with Dr. Tom Skinner and he really hammers home the fact that what you post online can and will affect your career or future career. I have always been careful with what I post and will continue to do so in the future.
Check out this awesome article that I found extremely helpful and even provides additional resources for us as teachers to introduce the internet into our classrooms.
https://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/educational_technology/internet_in_class/life_is_easy/
Thanks for reading!
Mr. Asham 💬
Really interesting article Dustin! I’ve had the same thing happen multiple times when I am researching a product to buy and then I get lots of adds on instagram related to that product! Funny you should mention king sized beds though as I just got a king sized bed on Wednesday! I would recommend looking at Juno beds, that’s where I got mine from. Ordered it Monday and it arrived Wednesday. It’s also super comfy and very affordable! Sorry for the sales pitch! Great post!
ReplyDeleteHello Mr. Asham. Awesome blog here pal. I can't even count how many times something I was talking about or researching pops up as an ad on facebook or some other platform. Definitely makes you think hey! Maybe they are watching us, haha!
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you touched on monitoring our online footprint. As educators I too believe it is important to conduct ourselves professionally online. As of late, I have toned down my social media presence or made it more private. It would be a great idea to pass off to the youth the importance of keeping it PG on the internet, as our footprint lasts forever! Also, loved the comment about professor Skinner, LOL!
Always great hearing from you, hope we can collaborate again soon,
Joshua
Thanks for the blog post Dustin. Yes, I too was a bit creeped out when I suspected instances of my phone listening to me. But after thinking about it for a while, and reflecting on how little I actually talk, my worries went away. I am probably uninteresting enough that I could make the computers bored. They wouldn’t get anything out of me! That being said, I do strongly see the importance of continuously monitoring what you say or write. Especially, as mentioned here and in the comments, what you post online can affect your career. And just because you delete something soon afterwards, you can never be sure that it has gone away for good. There are all sorts of ways to retrieve old data, or if someone saw the post and took a picture or shared it elsewhere, then consider it there forever. Ultimately, as young professionals, we need to keep everything professional. If you don’t give anyone a reason to question your professionalism, then they won’t.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy your perspective on privacy. I feel as though it is a growing concern as technology becomes easier to access and navigate, and is something educators constantly need to be aware of. Great job!
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