Moving away from the firehouse but landed in a never ending oyster field.
In
my ongoing effort to convince myself that I am not a digital immigrant but a
digital native, and that I was just born too soon, I decided to explore every
single click option on our blog page. I read all of your posts and commented
on many, but not all. I followed, subscribed, and joined every social media on
our blog page and linked pages, and found many jewels of resources for
information. I clicked on so many links to so many incredibly informative,
insightful, and relevant nuggets of information. Thank you!
When
finished, I felt a lot like I usually do when I begin a writing project.
(WARNING: The following content may be inappropriate for certain audiences.) I
spend several weeks/months digesting a lot of information, maybe too
much, and then end up throwing it up on a Word doc. I step away from the
vomit for a couple of days; play catch up in other areas. Upon my return, with
a fresh perspective, possibly the learner's perspective, I begin to wade thru
the muck, organize it, filter it, and make sense of it all. Surely you have a
different way of doing this?!
After
feeling "caught up" at 11:25 last night, I realized that I needed to
pace myself, find my stride, like soon, as I could not sustain
this sprint. After reading Goldfield's article, I created yet another digital
sticky note with reminders:
My
goal is to explore diversity, equity, inclusion in the digital learning world.
This
class is an opportunity to explore social media. (try on all the clothes in the
closet)
This
class will provide choices for filtering through social media platforms that my
learners will or may become comfortable using (place the clothes that I will
never wear in the Goodwill box)
Reassure
myself that this is not a sprint, but a marathon, and that this process will
repeat itself several times over the course of my career (eventually the closet
will fill up again)
Be
brave, embrace the feedback, revel in the successes.
This
class will feed my ever increasing demand for more fodder for my vomit, and
this is a good thing!
(PS:
and then I found this in my twitter feed 😎)
It's easy to become absorbed with all of the information to be found on the world wide web. I too need a reminder some days to pace myself. This week is especially important for that! There is a total lunar eclipse today as we head into mercury going into retrograde this weekend (if you read or care much about the stars) but either way, it can be a time at least for me where my mind is so full of ideas that I can't possibly keep up. I can relate to your intense digestion of information. I already found myself today bouncing from Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, back to the Canvas course, back into BadgeList and perhaps need to take the marathon approach. What specifically are you hoping to explore related to DE&I in the digital learning world?
ReplyDeleteIf you didn't consider yourself a digital native before this week, I'm sure you consider yourself one now! That's mighty impressive to follow all of the social media pages on our blog homepage and to read and post for almost everyone's blog. I think if there's any validity behind the digital native/immigrant distinction, one of the traits of digital natives is to throw yourself into a multitude of social media accounts, blogs, discussion boards, or any place online where people *are* – where they talk, share, post, and learn.
ReplyDeleteI have a similar method for beginning my writing process. Although I try to make my word doc "vomit" somewhat digestible (oh jeez...), it's the same way. I end up working through the mucky unnecessary stuff and whittle it down to the quality stuff. It works the same way with finding online communities and networks, you have to wade through the mud to find the gems!