Alyssa Fuller EDU

  What Gen Z is Watching Online Image Source      How will marketing change based off of what Gen Z is watching? This article appealed to me because I always find it interesting to see what my students are watching. Sometimes we end up being interested in the same TV shows and movies. I like that we can still relate to one another even though recently people try to create a huge divide between generations. This article referenced the amount of YouTube Gen Z is watching and I was astonished. I remember only watching YouTube videos that were viral. I never just scrolled through YouTube. The only time I would leave it on was for music purposes. This reminded me of my own nieces. My nieces are only 5 and 6 but they are obsessed with YouTube. One of my nieces refuses to watch movies and I believe it is probably because movies are too long for her to endure after being so used to YouTube videos. It makes me sad because I want them to watch all of the Disney classics with m...

     Media literacy is a skill in critical thinking. It is important to be literate in media because of the world we are living in. In the competitive career fields our students will be entering, understanding and being literate in social media is essential. It is a skill that citizens will be expected to know. Rheingold's social media literacies include attention, participation, collaboration, network awareness, and critical consumption. It is important for students to know more than just how to create on social media. All 5 literacies are important for students to know. They all interwind with one another. I believe the most essential that they still need to learn today are attention and critical consumption. Image Source      I believe learning more about attention would be so beneficial for people of all ages. I am shocked at the end of the week when my phone tells me how much screen time I have averaged in a day. I have only now just thought about th...

     COPPA and CIPA are federal laws in place to keep children safe. As a high school teacher, I will be honest and say that I have never felt the need to be the one providing my students this information. I have always felt that this is something my students should have learned and understood by the time they reach my class. However, I now believe that students at all ages would benefit from learning internet safety . Looking back at my own experiences, I could have definitely used more information regarding internet safety throughout all of my school years. Image Source      It is Danah Boyd's belief that COPPA teaches kids to lie. I do think there is some truth to that. At the age of 11 or 12, I had been using Myspace, AOL Instant Messenger, and YouTube. I knew at the time that there were age requirements but I always just lied on the policy agreement and proceeded to use the platforms. CIPA and COPPA did not stop kids my age from using the social media ...

    I have thought about my digital footprint a lot in the past. Because I have had social media platforms since a very young age, I truly have no idea what could come up about me if I were to search.  This week, I decided to do a data dig on myself. I started off with googling a common username I use as well as my full name in quotes. When googling  my username, my Instagram account pops up immediately. When I googled my full name, only 2 links come up. I see a link to a page titled "People Living at" followed by my mom's entire address and a background check website that states my age. I haven't changed my last name yet, but I decided to try to google that name as well. When I do, Google shows me the same link with my mom's address as well as my own house's address. I have known for a few years now that it is this easy to find people's addresses and family members on the internet. However, it shocks me every time I see it. Personal Image      While l...