This is the category to apply to your Weekly Reflection posts from the course.
For this week’s reflection blog post, I want to focus on a post from Maha Bali’s blog, which reflects on an article that explores AI and its broader societal and technological implications. Maha Bali is a professor at the American University in Cairo who focuses on digital learning, social justice, and critical approaches to educational…
For this post, I want to reflect on the guest lecture presented by Nodin Cutfeet on Indigenous digital literacies. Nodin Cutfeet offered a perspective of how digital literacy can and should look like when grounded in community, culture, and lived experiences. They are the founder of the Wannasaka Foundation, which is an online platform and…
Dr. Bonnie Stewart’s guest lecture prompted me to think about digital literacy in the context of datafication and algorithmic decision making. This talk emphasized the skills of developing a critical understanding of how digital systems operate, who they benefit, and what users may be giving up in the process. When digital literacy is usually discussed,…
The guest lecture by Mariel Miller on learning about generative AI made me reflect on how much my own learning has changed as an undergraduate student since AI has been introduced. While the introduction of generative AI has introduced benefits, it has also made me more aware of the responsibility that comes with these tools,…
Watching the guest lecture by Cable Green on Creative Commons reshaped the way I think about ownership, sharing, and access to knowledge in education. One of the most interesting points was how the high cost of educational resources continuously prohibits learners around the world from accessing the resources they need. Textbooks, research articles, and learning…
For my first blog post I want to focus on digital citizenship and reflect on how digital literacy frameworks help us think about our roles as learners in creating positive online environments. Over the past few weeks, I have found myself thinking more intentionally about my own responsibilities as a digital citizen and how my…