End of a Great Chapter. On to the Next!

After researching, creating, discussing and reflecting on various topics, I gained valuable insights from this module. Now, I truly appreciate the challenges as well as opportunities associated with it. To bid this module farewell, here’s a Final Reflection to bring you through my learning journey and the development of my digital profiles. Source: Self-Produced Source:...

Reflection on The Reflections Of Me

Posts I’ve commented on: Luna Brillar Adriel Li Personally, I support the idea of multiple identities. As I explored the arguments for and against multiple online identities, I realized that these two schools of thought were quite critical to the digital world. Min hui’s comment and Cai Ying’s blog post also added depth to my...

Am I Who You Think I Am?

Our online personas we build on the internet are digital breadcrumbs of the same persona (Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, 2017). Almost all activities that are based on using web tool/applications are ways of creating our digital identities, even when they are not on deliberate (Torres and Costa, 2011). Relating to our topic on ‘Digital Residents vs Visitors’,...

Stepping back to reflect!

Posts I have commented on: Darren Marianne Increased Challenges in Evaluating Information Online Julian's comment brought my attention towards advanced technology that allows video/audio manipulation. This contributes to our current challenge because not only can we not believe the news that we read, audios/videos are no longer as reliable too. The video below proved how...

Topic 2 – If 8/10 of the people say that it is fake news, is it fake news?

With Artificial Intelligence introduced in most of the social media platforms, the algorithms that they employ, contribute to our Filter Bubble through feeding us personalised content. As a result, we can unknowingly become isolated from information that disagrees with our “worldview” (FutureLearn, 2017). From Figure 1, statistics have shown that majority of adults in U.S. obtain...

Rewind, Reflect, Reset!

Posts that I have commented on:Timothy Chong & Bernard Low Figure 1 Source: Tom Chu, PS Print Figure 2 Source: Screenshot from Futurelearn Figure 3 Source: OECD From Futurelearn,With the comparison between textbook and eBooks in Figure 1, I used to think that everyone benefits from technology as they can conveniently acquire information for learning...

Topic 1 – Digital Differences

Today, I’m fortunate to be able to gain easy access to the internet with fast connectivity. However, digital differences still exist (Kathryn Zickuhr, 2012). These are contributed by factors like age, economic status, education and motivation (Susan Halford, Huw Davies and Jo Dixon, 2017). In this blog post, I will elaborate on how factors contribute to the...

Digital Residents vs Digital Visitors. Which are you?

In the current 21st century, we experienced the impact that technology has had in our everyday lives. We grew up learning how to use the internet to look for information, to watch videos and to play online games. In this digital era, we could be categorized into 2 types of personalities: ‘Digital Resident’ and ‘Digital...