Today in class we had the honour of having Jesse Miller join us for a presentation on Social Media & Mobile Technology: Professional responsibilities,  Personal meets Public. I found it to be a whirlwind of heavy content, and left my head spinning with a lot to consider as I move forward in my career as a teacher.

I thought I had a distinct plan put in place for creating a separate “professional” online presence that could be accessed by any students, parents, employers, or coworkers; but after today, I find myself questioning this entire decision. Is it best to just cut myself off from social media in my professional setting altogether to protect myself. Not that I necessarily post anything that I wouldn’t want to be public anyways, but the way that things can be shifted by the perception of the public is a very very scary thought to me.

This will be something that I will personally have to continue to consider and decide what approach I feel is best for my professional career vs my personal freedom. Definitely a lot to think of moving forward…

 

 

 

These are my notes from the presentation in their raw form.. Feel free to peruse them, or not. They’re here just for my own personal reference.

  • Finished highschool and didn’t know what he wanted to do — internet didn’t exist then like it does today
  • First job was with Vancouver PD – Bait Car Program
    • Then went on to working in sex crimes
    • Then at the emergence of facebook, shifted to giving presentations in schools
  • Masters work — technology in education
  • Social Media & Professional Responsibilities
    • @mediatedrealty (twitter)
    • Capchas – 40 million times per day instances of confirming you’re not a robot — google what captures do
      • helps with self driving cars
    • malahat introducing photo radar next year – tickets in the mail based on time to take to get to point a to point b
    • funny videos online – why do videos of gym people exist on the internet – FIPPA
    • People do things on the internet without knowing why they’re doing it: ALS ice bucket challenge
    • “private accounts”: all your followers can still screenshot and pass along
    • Networked Citizenship:
      • What is your digital identity?
        • multiple versions of yourself
        • facebook
        • primary instagram account
        • Things on the internet that you dont want your students seeing, or your employers, etc
    • Digitial rights: someone screenshots something and sends it to a thousand people, do they have a right?
      • up until 2014 no laws against sending on photos or messages that people send to you
      • now sending someone else’s pictures is a punishable offense
    • Digital Literacy: 1/4 of all US relationships started on social media last year
    • Security of self: are you actively maintaining your personal accounts to ensure you’re keeping your personal and professional life is separate
    • Should your child have a social media account?
      • gender biases
      • media biases
      • targeted to moms – pinterest
      • Tween brains are not ready for navigating this 24 hour communication/life of affirmation
      • Headlines are designed to get people to click
        • Videogames cause violence: data does not support this — most kids that are violent in schools have domestic violence in their homes
    • Has social media shifted society: for better or worse? both? double edged sword
    • Kids who enjoy sports never think about checking their phones — need to make classrooms engaging so that they also feel the same way
  • Amy Orben : emerging data on kids going back to face to face needs – have experienced being ignored by parents on their phones, so dont want to continue that cycle.
  • erasebc.ca — erase bullying
  • Social media & youth
    • need to know the policies around appropriate communication between teachers and students–each school district has different policies and are changing all the time
      • ie. having students phone numbers
      • texting students
      • having students on social media
      • opportunities for success vs. opportunities for conflict
      • need to balance your wanting to be empathetic and help children, also need to keep proper boundaries with students for professionalism
    • Entitlement piece attached to your phone – because is like our modern diary
    • All struggling with communications balance – use of personal phone for school vs. getting a phone from the school district
      • district has access to what you do on your personal phone when on the wifi
  • 3 potential critical audiences for media use by educations
      • public – ie. parents
      • staff/coworkers – do you need to befriend all coworkers on your facebook/instagram
      • students – if they somehow get access – what they see and what they can do with it
    • Teachers must not share student info/image on personal social media accounts
      • Make sure any content with students remains within canada
      • make sure you delete photos right away
      • FreshGrade is hosted in BC
      • Fostercare **
      • Uploading any negative pictures online
      • be wary of crossing lines – boundaries
  • E-sports
    • Highschools now have e-sports teams
    • nation building – diverse group of competitiors
    • competitive e-sports players will have the same resting heart rate as a person playing 90 min soccer game
    • gaming interest into art design, computer science, etc
    • 3D opportunities
    • Shouldn’t be shaming kids based on interest – based on cultural norms
    • need to have a diversity of extracurriculars
    • can get a business degree in e-sports
    • forest fires – can dig trenches