Topic 3 Discussion By OS

Hey Folks,

I found topic 3’s readings to be very interesting. Firstly, because I enjoyed learning about the FIPPA legislation in British Columbia topic 1. I specifically was intrigued by how much we’re willing to give up ourselves onto a digital platform without knowing the full consequences. The topic of revenge porn in Gilliard and Culik’s Digital redlining article to be a disturbing example of how things can go really bad on popular social platforms (Gilliard and Culik 2016). When computer devices are supposed to be intended to empower  people, it can often leave people vulnerable when they dare put anything digital out there without full knowledge of what can happen. Although the article talks about a community college. At Uvic we’re pretty privilege to have access to a speedy and reliable internet network. However, with such an exposed network we depend on Uvic’s responsibility to make good use with their internet security in attempts of hackers or any other threats.  So that’s something I thought when reading the article as we somewhat expose ourselves digitally when giving ourselves to such networks like the one at Uvic. With great power comes great responsibility it seems in this case as one must be conscious of what they’re posting and allowed to be collected by online services.

Also, the second reason I liked the article is because it talks about inclusion of minorities and vulnerable people. It’s important as we have the privilege we do with Uvic to learn about our history and the Lekwungen peoples’ land that we’re on. This in the hopes of making a better decision for the future that include better opportunists for those less unfortunate and those with different backgrounds who have felt excluded before. I believe technology and websites are tools that will help preserve and educate inquisitive people about Aboriginal culture by the pictures in Kral and Schwab’s article about uploading content to youtube in the Indigenous learning spaces article  (Kral and Schwab, 2012). I believe open education can provide different means of educational understanding such as interactive maps that attempt to educate and help inform the public about land acknowledge and how the land is important in terms of Aboriginal relationships. This can do loads of positives and provide a safe space for other aboriginals to communicate and share history, culture and art in a way that might’ve not been possible with physical materials. I also do acknowledge the obstacles however in terms of internet and equipment access. I have hope in the future that we’ll provide better resources for community centres that will provide better chances to learn about certain topics that will help them succeed in life as it provides a way to equally be involved with the world and Canada.

“Paquette outlines three sets of foundational values of Open Pedagogy, namely: autonomy and interdependence; freedom and responsibility; democracy and participation.” (Mays, 2017). I think this quote ties nicely with the two earlier subjects as I believe these new sets of theories mentioned in this chapter opens further discussion and demand for further online school change. I believe that people should have a say about what their being educated as mentioned in the Open Pedagogy chapter and allow more range of how course material should be delivered and expected to be completed. I think by allowing individual deadlines and course input from students will allow more overall success as we expect the student to learn at their own pace but still expect results at a certain date. Instead of being rigid we allow leniency in the hopes that by the student finding their own ways through online education they can acquire a better understanding of the school material and find better success in their assignment quality. This freedom comes with personal responsibility as one disadvantage is we have to accept some students might have poor time management. However I believe the positive out weight the negative as I believe we can allow different groups who didn’t learn one way to find other ways to be successful. Especially when we’re talking about the Aboriginals in the case in our second paragraph.

Overall I enjoyed the readings for this topic section.

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