This is where you share your updates and reflections for Assignment 2. This posts uses the “Reflections” category which pulls it into the Reflections menu.
Feb 3, 2025 Creating my blog in week 4 felt like a true introduction to the class. The early process has involved a large learning curve with the different platforms needed, and given the context of the class has had me reflecting on the idea of digital literacy. While I would call myself digitally literate, learning multiple new online resources simultaneously was not an easy process. Communicating with the learning pod has been a struggle as none of us are very familiar with Mattermost as a chat site. Responses haven’t been very consistent, and planning our meetups have been slow going. I look forward to meeting them and getting to discuss the class as a whole.
The digital literacy readings this week also struck me as interesting. There’s a long list of bullet points that go alongside being a digital citizen, a list I would have largely agreed with through most of my life. But with the rapidly changing landscape of the internet it seems more difficult than ever to be digitally literate. Chat AI replicates speech in ways that can be hard to recognize, and image AI is quickly catching up to the same capabilities. Beyond people being able to generate AI content, bots have also infiltrated the online space, and are at times nearly invisible. This gave me the concept for my final inquiry: is it possible to be digitally literate in 2025?