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Final Week Reflection

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  It Was the Best of Times It Was the Worst of Times! Image Source: Giphy.com           When I saw the workload of assignments and due dates I was feeling overwhelmed even before doing the first assignment, even before looking at the first assignment I should say! I thought wow remote learning plus all this work is too much but I did the first assignment and it was not bad at all. It was actually FUN! I had not done a blog in years and talking about my life and my family was actually really exciting. This class was very educational and I really liked that it was us learning and creating content as opposed to just reading about it. I learned so much in such a short amount of time. I didn't even know how to add a hyperlink before this class. As a special education teacher that pushes into classrooms I had not really used technology because I would mostly read books with students and go over comprehension questions and assisted them with worksheets as I was there only for 1 period. Ne

Personal Data Mining better known as Digital Tattoo

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Image Source: VirtualLibrary.info Are All Tattoos Permanent?         A few years ago tattoos were said to be permanent but now with new medical technology we know that is not the case as there is laser tattoo removal. If you regret a certain tattoo, you can have it removed with a few laser removal sessions. Did you know that there is a different type of tattoo that is digital and not easily removed and can be accessed around the world wide web? This digital tattoo also known as  personal data mine are  all the information we post online.  The photos we share, the comments we write, the videos we 'like' all say something about us to other people. Even if we delete them, they may still be out there – saved and shared by others, or even kept by the site or app itself.  What Do My Digital Tattoos Look Like      You would think that having a unique name like July Miranda would be easy to search information online and find my digital tattoos but with just my luck there is a famous w

Technology Research:Teens and Social Media

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           Did you know that teenagers using Facebook probably means that they are more than likely to be low-income?! I did not know this either, but according to the Pew Research Center (2018)  teens who use Facebook as their main form of social media are more likely living in a household with an income less than $35,000/year. Generation X and millennials have used Facebook evenly regularly regardless of their income therefore I found teen usage and income connection very surprising. Teens in households with incomes over $75,000/year are more likely to use Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube as their main forms of social media.                                                             Image Source: Pew Research Center         This research went more in detail and found that female teens are more than likely to use Snapchat as their main form of social media whereas boys are more than likely to use YouTube as their form of social media. Social Media for teens also do not revolve aroun