Digital Divide Narrows for Latinos as More Spanish Speakers and Immigrants Go Online

Brown, A., Lopez, G., Lopez, M.H. (20 July 2016). Digital Divide Narrows for Latinos as More Spanish Speakers and Immigrants Go Online
Retrieved on Aug. 1, 2016

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The article Digital Divide Narrows for Latinos as More Spanish Speakers and Immigrants Go Online survey determined that since 2009 immigrant Latinos and Spanish-dominant Latinos have closed the gap in going online, according to 2015 survey numbers. The results also stated that there is not a noticeable changed in use of broadband among Latinos. Instead Latinos are more likely to own a smartphone in a household without a landline phone. The smartphone was the primary use of the internet in households without broadband. 

Overall 84% of Latino adults report using the internet, which was a 20% increase from 2009-2015. The survey consisted o 1500 Latino adults in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Latino adults who sneaked English and Spanish on landlines and cellular phones. The survey examined internet use among Hispanics, Broadband services among Latinos and mobile access to internet. Two of the three levels have increase and the gap has closed during internet use and mobile access to internet. Broadband services was the one area that has little to no growth.

Privacy and Information Sharing

Rainie, L. and Duggan, M. (14 January 2016). Privacy and Information Sharing.
Retrieved August 2, 2016

http://pewrsr.ch/1P2vmSY

According to the article Privacy and Information Sharing, 461 U.S. adults and nine online focus groups of 80 people believe that it is depending on the context when they will share personal information or permit surveillance only if they will get a some type of value from it. 

For example, 54% says it is acceptable for employers to install monitoring cameras if it was workplace thefts. 47% say the basic bargaining offered by retail loyalty cards is acceptable because it will lead to occasional discounts, only 32% said it was unacceptable. 55% finds it unacceptable to have other activities the company may do with information collected on households, such as the smart thermostat. 

As stated earlier many of the different scenarios adults found it unacceptable to share information because they are not sure what is being done with information or if it is a true benefit for their situation. For example, 45% not acceptable, 51% free social media not acceptable, and 55% smart thermostat not acceptable. 

In conclusion it is really dependent on the situation and the persons knowledge/understanding of what the real use will be of their personal information. When the person is in control of those two pieces of information the sharing of information is acceptable versus not being in control which leads to not acceptable because it creates a sense of why is it necessary to have certain personal information

Parents, Teens and Digital Monitoring

Anderson, M. (7 January 2016). Parents, Teens, and Digital Monitoring.
Retrieved August 2, 2016
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According to Parents, Teens, and Digital Monitoring, parents are monitoring teens use of digital devices. The surveys demonstrated that parents are hands-on with monitoring. For example, 61% of parents say they have checked websites that are visited by their teens. 60% checked their teen's social media profiles, 56% have followed teen on Facebook, Twitter or other social platforms, and 48% looked through their teen's phone records and text messages.

Parents are learning passwords to emails, social sites and limiting the amount of time spent on the sites/devices. Although the monitoring is hands on the survey found that parents are less likely to block or track their kids. For example; 39% of parents report using parental controls for blocking, filtering or monitoring their teen's online activities, 16% use parental controls to restrict their teens's use of his or her cellphone, 16% use monitoring tools on their teen's cellphone to track their location. Although the use of technology based tools is low use, parents are active in teen's behavior through proactive approaches such as speaking on regular intervals about with is unacceptable online behavior.

The proactive talks focus on the following, 94% about online sharing of information, 95% about appropriate content for viewing online, 95% about what media to view through music, books, magazines or other media and 92% about their online behavior toward other users online.

Instagram and Vine

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Final Blog

I found the class very helpful in presenting the various technologies that can be fun and engaging for students at the same time. I saw the various applications helpful as attention grabbers when introducing a class. In addition many of the applications are useful in extending learning or demonstrating processing of content area. In review of the various applications learned this semester, there was not really one particular application that was a big struggle. If I had to pick one in particular it was garage band or the recording of the voice for a pod cast. The application was not very user friendly and took several attempts to embed in a blog.

My favorite applications are as follows:

I enjoyed the scanner because it allows the creator to give another option to access a large amount of information through a link. This is great for staff, teachers, parents, and even students. The drawback is if all parties have the technology through the smart phone with the application. This can be an issue when one is conserving data on a monthly phone plan.

I enjoyed goose chase as a way to open up an activity, encourage team work, creativity and closing/extending a lesson for students. I do not see an issues because most environments have some form of electric table that can be used in a group setting to accomplish the activities developed by the creator.

I enjoyed the animoto and snapchat applications because of the visual component and the ability to be create with how the information is presented. The only draw back was the time alloted within the programs. As stated earlier this can improve a students editing skill and critical thinking on what information is absolutely necessary for your audience to comprehend the content being presented at the time.

Overall really good applications that can be used in a creative way to connect with the staff, teachers, students and parents. We are in a world where technology is used as a way to get information across in a variety of ways. The access is quick, convenient, and effective for a librarian to improve communication between the various stake holders in a school community and advertise the various uses of a library.

Comics

Evaluation of MyToonDoos:

I enjoyed using My ToonDoos. It was easy to registrar and set up an account. It was easy to set up and create a comic without a lot of fuss. After about 10-15 mins I was able to go through each tool on the bar and create/move the characters around on the slide. There were a variety of human, animal and objects to put in the comic. I had no problem adding color and backgrounds to each slide. I was able to download and save to my computer without any issues. The best part was all tools were set up on the screen. If someone wanted to really be create it was even a pen to draw in the slides with different colors. One of the most useful tools was the ability to resize and enlarge the objects on each slide. The tool bar even allowed one to download your own pictures. I think this could be useful to actually put my face in the slide or my students. I can see how useful this would be for math word problems and using the students and familiar objects as part of the problem. 

The students would enjoy using this particular program. I think the learning curve with be fine and the students could easily create many comics for science, social studies, reader response, and may activities to show understanding of any content area. 

ONLINE BOOK COMMUNITIES

ONLINE BOOK COMMUNITIES

I examined three online book communities: Booklikes, Goodreads and Librarything

BOOKLIKES

PROS

The appearance of the books actually on the shelf

The different pages that was label with the title of the shelves

The ease to move the books around within the shelves

Able to create a blog

CON

The creator of the shelf is unable to import or export a list from another book community 

GOODREADS

PROS

Able to import/export from amazon and LibraryThing

Ratings and reviews of the books

Able to purchase the books from amazon link

Able to create on personal reviews of your bookshelf

LIBRARYTHING

PROS

Able to import/export from online book communities

Ratings and reviews of the books

I enjoyed all three online book communities. The one I enjoy the most was Booklikes. I enjoyed the home page and the view of the books. In addition the ability to create a blog and have interaction with others who share the same passion. The blog allows extra creative with the books and sharing with others.

I would recommend that students try all three sites. I think the students could benefit from working on the Booklikes community because of the creativity of presenting the book through a blog. 

BOOKLIKES
SHELF READ

BOOKLIKES
PLANNING TO READ

BOOKLIKES
CURRENTLY READING

GOODREADS

GOODREADS

GOODREADS

LIBRARY THING