I have always been opposed to the development and push for the use and integration of generative artificial intelligence in the workflow of any job or industry. I personally view the benefits A.I. could potentially bring are vastly outweighed by the environmental, intellectual, and privacy issues it has already caused through the push for mass […]
Category: Digital Literacy
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Week 9 Reflection: Data and Dr. Bonnie Stewart
Dr. Bonnie Stewart’s talk made it clear how dangerous it can be that technologies have become such an integral and inescapable aspect of modern society. My personal job has my schedule, requests for days off, and pay stubs hosted almost entirely in a single app that also stores most of my private data to make […]
Reflection Week 11: Equity in Digital Spaces
It’s no secret that digital inequity has been a big problem throughout the history of the internet. Social spaces online have always given the worst of society the ability to spread hatred and bigotry while hidden behind the mask of an anonymous profile picture. While that has been an aspect of the internet well-known and […]
Reflection: Copyright
Since my Inquiry post is heavily related to the nature of copyright, I decided to wait until I was familiar with reflection posts so that I could make this post with experience already in both this writing style and refamiliarize myself with copyright before watching the talk, so that I could understand what was being […]
Inquiry Post 4: The Beginning of the Future
Substantial People and Moments in Copyright is my latest post on my Substack at the time of this post. It is far more story-oriented than my previous post on Substack, and I had fun researching lawsuits and individuals I thought people would find interesting. The important details of the article are apparent within the article […]
Inquiry: First Proper Article Reflection
I have just posted my first proper article for my inquiry post. My intention for this article was to make it a reference post for future articles on copyright. I plan to make even more after this class, so I will update it as I introduce more concepts in later articles. In other words, this […]
Week 10 Reflection Post: Nodin Cutfeet
Nodin Cutfeet’s lecture on the Indigenous perspective on digital literacy was very interesting for me, as seeing how different cultures view concepts such as digital literacy and the importance of educating yourself to protect yourself helps me understand that culture all the more, especially regarding which issues are deemed most important in that culture. The […]
Inquiry Post 2: A Tale of Two Softwares
This post details my journey with two pieces of software that I wanted to use for my Inquiry Project, and which one I ultimately decided to use. Pressbooks For my inquiry copyright project, I was first recommended to try Pressbooks, a self-publishing textbook site. I decided to create a test book that I planned to […]
Reflection: Week 8: Social Annotation
You may be surprised by my post starting with Week 8 of the course. Unfortunately, I have poorly planned out my schedule, and now I need to catch up with a far more strict schedule than I should have made for myself. The part of Week 8 that I personally enjoyed and connected to the […]
Assignment 1 Inquiry Process Post #1: Past Project Reflection
The motivation for my project about expanding knowledge related to copyright and protection of intellectual properties originates from a high school project that I found to be very fun to research and educate my peers on. The class assignment was to create a presentation based around law in one fashion or another. Most of my […]