08.+Privacy+&+Sharing

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=Privacy and Sharing= Brenna Ehrlich in her review article "Social Networks Are Not Killing Our Social Lives" reflects on the report titled " Social Mythbusting conducted by ExactTarget. According to this report in general more Facebook and Twitter users have the same or increased face-to-face social interaction in contrast to those who reported decreased socal contact. I think it depends on how much time one spends with these tools, how much is left for other part of life. I have several family members and friends on Facebook. I realized that I can increase connection time with them via Facebook, but actually I do not want to, the way I can interact with them on Facebook does not interest me. For instance, they play Farmville or they like to fill out all kinds of meaningless surveys, and post silly Youtube videos etc. I do not have time for these. I feel that the amount of time I normally spent with them before Facebook is enough. So I do not get so much involved in Facebook family time, I rather call, email or visit. Social media is very time consuming. We need better digital literacy to utilize media correctly.

I also agree with George Siemens. Learner should be in control of their learning. Taking online courses made me realize that in education assignments are driven by the teacher's need to be able to give out a score. I also agree that asking the question if technology driven learning is more effective or not is irrelevant. It is not a question if we should use social media and mobile learning, we need to ask HOW we use them.

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