W9: Internet Crime

This week, we firstly continued the discussion of “Internet privacy” and compared and contrast to the perception of digital natives and digital immigrants. The formers seemed to understand the the impact of Internet and social networking but they were still can’t be apart from it. The later, however, realized the potential risks so that they were afraid of releasing too much personal information on the web in case the fact that the access of personal information will disturb their original life style. As for me, Internet privacy was seen as a necessary evil because the communication among people in this mobile age relied heavily on Internet. In the age of “big data”, people will keep uploading the relevant, personal, and related information to the long-distance server to show predictable favorably results, which improve your using experience. I used the analogy, we are naked but we still face it, to describe this situation.

Besides, other classmates’s diverse answers were also appealing and interesting. Some people regarded the privacy issue as the limitation of Internet, which was the voluntary work to share to everyone. Another people stated that is is the price of being famous. Still the others expressed their concerns of “where the trusts come from”. This discussion triggered students in this class to think further more about the the possible influences on Internet privacy.

After that, we watched the trailer of the Trument show, which is an old American social sci-fi film. The movie is about the life of Truman Burbank who is living in a virtual reality show on the television, but he didn’t know about it. Connecting the movie to the Internet privacy, we can easily see some similarities and difference on this issue. The world we’re living in is a transparent virtual community like the world of Truman’s so that people can easily find information needed on the Internet. Yet, the main difference is on people’s  awareness of the impact of information usage. Trument in the very beginning didn’t know that he was living in a virtual reality show, and he wash;t conscious of how people are looking at him. Rather, for digital natives, we understander the way how information is transited and transformed; therefore, we have limitation of information spread on the Internet. For example, we will not spread our credit card ID on the Internet for fear of the misuse of the financial account. In addition, we talked about people’s concern of Internet privacy but pitifully, I was handling some technical problem at that time so I didn’t catch much.

We ended the class by beginning a new topic called Internet crime.

W8: Internet Privacy

Learning log:

In this week, we first discussed previous written assignments. Patty pointed out that moist of students' written work didn't cite their reference. Therefore, we talked about what is "cite", and created a vocabulary list, including citation, reference, origin, and source. Before long, we defined the word "cite" as   "to tell your readers where your idea comes from by pasting selected information like author, link, title, or published year". For me, citation has been an instinct for I've been trained in academic writing and know the importance (avoid plagiarism) and the reason (convince your readers your information is reliable) that we have to cite. In the following section, we continued the discussion of "internet relationship". First of all, we looked at two similar pictures of which were the connection of computers and humans, and Patty asked us to compare and contrast the pictures for following dialogue. Much to Patty's amazement, she found that most of the students didn't see the difference because students nowadays considered computer networking to be part of their lives, which is as similar as people's networking. She thought this situation might refer to the generation gap, that is, digital natives didn't separate the real world and virtual world, while for digital immigrants they are totally different. In addition to the virtual/real world, we also mentioned the theory of Gardner, which is multiple intelligence, referring to eight abilities that people own in terms of musical–rhythmic, visual–spatial, verbal–linguistic, logical–mathematical, bodily–kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. In the end, we talked about the topic of the week-- Internet Privacy. Since we don't have too much background knowledge of Internet privacy, we simply found some definition on the net. For the assignment, we need to complete the task of "Internet privacy", and dig out its concern, risks, levels and law. 

Weekly Note:

1. Explain three kinds of assignment. Requirement

2. Discuss: what is citation?

Citation is the reference of published work or unpublished resources. 

- Patty asked many students what is citation/reference/origin/source. (Jay, Jasimine, Nita)

- You should cite the source online. 

- cite: to tell your readers where your idea comes from by pasting selected information like author, link, title, or published year

How to cite?

Use APA style to 

Psychology. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved October 14, 2009, from

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology

- the vocabulary list: citation/reference/origin/source

Patty told us the importance and reasons why we have to cite.

- importance: avoid plagiarism

- why: convince your readers your information is reliable

 

3. Continue the discussion "internet relationship" since Week 6 3/27

- picture discussion: the webs are linking together

- the way they are linking are the same but the first picture refers to computers, the second picture refer to human 

Natives: 

- People's relationship = computer's relationship

--> 

Immigrants

- People's relationship --> real world

     --> interpersonal relationship

- v.s.

- computer's relationship --> virtual world

 --> Internet relationship (discussed in week 6): interpersonal relationship (communication between people)

- An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association/acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring. 

- bridging: social networking websites 

Gardner chose eight abilities that he held to meet these criteria:[2] musical–rhythmic, visual–spatial, verbal–linguistic, logical–mathematical, bodily–kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. 

- concern: a) native: not concern b) my care: privacy, security 

Week 8: Internet privacy

what

concern

risk

law/regulation/policy

level (setting)

Privacy is something you don't want other know. 

How to set your privacy on google plus?

Written work:

1. Internet relationship v.s. interpersonal relationship

2. Discuss on privacy

3. What is/are your privacy policy/policies on social networking sites?

4. What is the rationale behind your privacy policy/policies?

Digital natives v.s. Digital immigrants

1. What is "digital natives"?

According to Oxford online dictionaries, digital natives refer to people born or brought up during the age of digital technology and so familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age. Prensky (2001) stated that for digital natives, computer games, the Internet, cell phones, and instant messages are integrated parts in their lives. He also noted the following features:

• Used to received information really fast
• Like to parallel process and multi-task.
• Prefer graphics to text
• Prefer random access
• Prefer games to "serious" work 

2. Whats is "digital immigrants"?

Compared to digital natives, digital immigrants refer to people born or brought up before the widespread use of digital technology. They like to read information in hard copy form and read manual/instruction when acquiring new technology. Prensky (2001) indicated that digital immigrants still retain their strong accent, i.e., they just adopted to their digital environment rather than accustom themselves to the whole net world. They might, for instance, secretly print email and news to read, or bring people physically into office to see an interesting website. For digital immigrants, they have little appreciation for the new skills that digital natives acquired. They used to the learn those skills in a organized, step-by-step way, one thing at a time, individually, and above all, seriously. 

3. What are the difference?

The notable difference between digital natives and digital immigrants is the perception and way of receiving information. It's natural for the formers to receive information on the Internet and use hyperlink to communicate and share with their online friends via social media and social networking. The later seemed to use technology in their daily life but they are sometimes afraid of stepping out for learning a new technology stuff or skill. Take "social networking site" for example, digital natives might spent a lot of time on social networking sites, integrated their studies, entertainment, business, reading, and daily event for the whole day. However, the digital immigrants may/may not join a social networking service, or might be an passive users on any platform. All in all, the difference between both groups are not specifically well-defined, but their attitudes toward technology varies according to the acceptance into the digital world.

4. Is it possible that digital immigrants became digital natives?

According to the above mentioned, there's no specific boundary between digital natives and immigrants, but the biggest difference lies in the perception of technology. In what Prensky (2001a, 2001b) stated is how teacher need to speed up with the new generation and provided "random access" to improve their learning. However, VanSlyle (2003) disagreed what Prensky defined and proposed his counterargument on digital natives's information literacy, which is not so sufficient as we think. He eventually proposed a workable solution to which arises the "conception of of the cultural assimilation between the two group as a metal process of adaption rather than one-way street." In my opinion, though digital natives and immigrants are different groups, but it doest mean that they is no possibility to transfer from digital immigrants to digital natives. Once individuals become familiar with the way digital natives employ in their life, they are able to become digital natives. But the notion should be more awareness and understanding of cultural difference to the new generation and bridge the gap between them. 

ReferenceBennett, S., Maton, K., & Kervin, L. (2008). The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence. British journal of educational technology,39(5), 775-786.
Prensky, M. (2001a). Digital natives, digital immigrants part 1. On the horizon, 9(5), 1-6.
Prensky, M. (2009). H. sapiens digital: From digital immigrants and digital natives to digital wisdom. Journal of Online Education, 5(3), 1-9.
VanSlyke, T. (2003). Digital natives, digital immigrants: Some thoughts from the generation gap. The technology source, 7(3).

Week 5: Blog

Reflection

In this week, in the very beginning,  T. Patty made the clarification concerning the information and notice of the homework and gave us a clear direction of the assigned activities of this course. The assigned activities could be divided into three parts in terms of interactive problem-solving tasks, weekly journals and written work. Latter on, we continued the discussion of digital natives and digital immigrants. In addition, Patty gave us a kind reminder to the richness of communication media of the work. That is, we can complete our tasks in various forms such as text, graphics, and video, face-to-face interaction, or audio. At last, we stared the new topic of the week--blog, and tried to figure out what is a blog and what is a blog for. After the brief discussion, we also read a short story called "a story of 5 stages of a blogger" to end the discussion. 

After the clear slide, I realized all the activities that we need to do in class. But when I was observing in class it seemed that some classmates were still not into it, i.e., did not know how the class is organized. Maybe they required more time or guide to engage in class. As for task 2, I searched the terms "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" on google and found the first appearance of the two terms from Prensky (2001). Therefore, I read full paper and try to distinguish the difference. However, based on his description, it is obvious that the notable difference is on the perception of using technology. In my opinion, Prensky's idea is innovative but it's in totally correct in reality because there is a boundary between both group.

Week 4: Social Networking

Task 1: How to add Patty to your social networking group? [pdf file]

• Platform: Google+ 
• Step:
1. Apply one google account
• go to https://www.google.com.tw
2. Link your account to Google+ 
3. Set your personal information
4. Search your friends on Google+
• Search "Tonny Kuo" on Google+
5. Send request to Tonny Kuo
6. Tonny accept your request

Problem Identification

The interface language will present in Chinese if you sign up in Chinese/Taiwan area. If you would like to change the language into English version, please follow the direction.

1. Log in your Google account. Please check the URL to the direct page.
2. Key in your user name and password.
3. Choose the icon “Log In (登入)” to access your google service. If activated, you will be directed to the google home page. 
4. Click “Setting (設定)” lower right corner. Then, you will see a pop-up menus containing five choices. Please choose the first one, search settings (搜尋設定).
5. On the page of “search settings (搜尋設定)”, click “Languages (語言)” on the left site. Then, choose “English” to be the primary language, and then click “save (儲存)”Warming: Once you choose English, the current showing search results will presented in English, that is, you can ONLY search the information of English.
6. After directed to the Google homepage, choose the upper left “+ plus mark”. Then, you will be guide to activate google plus. 
7. You can import your friends’ emails or names to find them on Google plus.

Find people you know on Google+

1. Open Google+. Place your cursor in the top left corner for the Google+ main menu. Click  People.
2. Browse the suggestions and place your cursor over the Add button to add people to your circles (they won't know which circle you added them to).
3. To find additional people, click Find coworkers or Find classmates.

Setting your default language

1. Sign in to Google+ .
2. Click your full name or email address in the Google bar.
3. Click Account.
4. Click Language in the middle.
5. Choose languages in order of your viewing preference.

Find friends on google plus

1. Go to Gmail and then choose “Contacts”.

google contact

2. Click “NEW CONTACT”. Key in the name and email (Gmail required)of your friend.
3. Then, your friends’ profile will automatically present.

Add friend to contacts

4. Click the name of “Connected profile” so that you will be directed to his/her profile on google plus.
5. Click “add to circles” and choose one category.
6. Your friend then will receive the notification so that he/she can join you on google plus. 

send friend request