Week6: Reading Reflection

I read two articles by Dennen, Rutledge, and Badgy for this week. I think both articles are based on the same data collected from a high school in Florida. Both of them had very interesting findings, which are similar to what I experienced in Korea. For example, there were two types of teachers- the ones trying to regulate students' phone use (Leave it out of your sight) and the others trying to integrate it into their class activities (I was one of them). I think schools require some sort of discipline in younger grades for teaching them how to sit properly, pay attention to a certain thing for a given amount of time, and get the given tasks done. But once the students pass that era of establishing healthy, basic studying (or living) habits, I believe schools are also responsible for teaching students how to use their social media for self-regulated learning, like a quote in the paper. "Students don't know how much information they have at their fingertips."

Another interesting finding that was similar to Korea's was students' concern about privacy regarding social media. Cyberbullying is also a huge problem in Korea. Several students committed suicide because they couldn't escape from the bullying and there is even an application to experience how harsh cyberbullying can be (it is usually used for cyberbullying prevention education). 

This association reminded me of Molca, which means taking a picture of someone without getting consent. I remember when I was working in my classroom in the afternoon, a boy in the first grade took a picture of me. The door of the classroom was slightly open and I heard the shutter sound (Korean phones are designed to make the shutter sound when taking a picture to prevent Molca crime). The boy ran away when he realized that I realized that I was taken a picture and I chased the boy to get his phone. He did have several photos and videos of me working (just working). I told him that this can be a crime and let his parents know what he did. Hopefully, he stopped taking random pictures of somebody without consent by now. He did not upload any of my pictures (to my knowledge) on social media but if he did, it would have been even more creepier. I wonder if similar things also happen in the US.

Besides, the papers had a really good writing style and did an amazing job articulating the need and the scope of the study. I felt the need to improve my writing on teachers' online tool use during Covid, which is about to be finished but is taking forever to actually be finished. I think I really need to separate online tools that are social media and those that are not so that I can delve into their affordances a bit more. I feel like I was too hasty about this project in general.