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Community communications go beyond blogs and social media shares, how does a PLN help and hinder the development of thoughts and ideas in education discourse?

Community communication goes beyond blogging and social media sharing and has become more effective and faster, but sometimes community communication can help and hinder the development of ideas and concepts in educational discourse. For example, a good PLN can help establish a positive learning environment between teachers and learners, like the brightspace we use at UVIC, or tophat, zoom, etc. These PLN can help us to do our work more quickly and efficiently, or to establish a more reliable connection between students and students, and students and teachers in the classroom. But some PLN have turned out to hinder the development of ideas and concepts in educational discourse. For example, sites like chegg, again such sites are convenient for scholars to communicate, but students often use such sites to cheat and plagiarize. Even during exams such sites are used. This creates a negative PLN environment.

How do educators create discourse? What is the role of social media in education?

The role of social media in education is enormous. First of all social media is like a bridge in education, it links the communication between students and between students and teachers. Students can improve their communication skills by communicating with each other through social media or by completing group assignments. Communication between students and teachers through social media can greatly improve communication efficiency and reduce communication costs, such as in the case of our online courses.

What are some problems with social media communications in education settings?

The first problem with social media communication in an educational setting I think is regulation and reality because there is a lot of uncertainty and uncontrollability in social media, for example, if we take a test or answer a question through social media (Zoom, Brightspace , etc), because it’s done on the web, we can’t guarantee whether the student will open the page to search or take the test with others through social media.

For most of us, social media is an important part of people’s daily lives. The maximum use of social media is to make it easier to contact others, or to share interesting things in life or photos, but there are also people who use the diversity and breadth of social media to make money. But as celebrities, they can market their movies, music or concerts or endorse products while having a huge number of fans in social media. It’s like appearing in the public eye PLN, which can make the information they post more impactful. Having a large number of fans means that they have to carry more social responsibility, their every word and action is affecting the society, and they need to be responsible for what they say. They need to be responsible for what they say, because any wrong statement can incite people’s emotions and lead to a big disaster. Also their social media can give a voice to social injustice and make the government pay attention to it.

Secondly, the construction of a reliable PLN in a connected society requires verifiable resources, which I believe need to be better regulated, for example, in terms of the reliability of information, spreading a false message a dozen to a hundred, which will send society into a panic, thus bringing uncontrollable consequences. For example, a few years ago there was a nuclear leak in Japan, but in China there was a rumor that there was a shortage of salt, and people began to spend a lot of money on salt, which led to an increase in prices, but then experts avoided the rumor that the nuclear leak would not affect the supply of salt. So we need to verify the reliability of these network resources, and people need to improve their ability to discriminate information so that they can build dependable pln.

In the end, because we live in a powerful media world where the media can influence us through a variety of messages, and this influence is very powerful, we need to learn media literacy, including the ability to access and analyze media messages and to create, reflect and act on them, to use the power of information and communication to change the world, and to raise awareness of media influence. Positive impact for the people.

For PLN, I think it must have diversity because pln is originally PLN is a global online community and PLN has unlimited openness. It can share each other’s ideas, and resources, with scholars from all over the world. When one’s PLN has some diversity, it will enrich the ideas and resources that one wants to share, and it will also attract more people to communicate and discuss with you. It also allows for better development of the pln.

Secondly, digital identity is the most important part of PLN because digital identity is our identity on the web, and this identity includes your identity on chat software (WeChat, messaging) or the identity you want to show to others on various social software (YouTube, Ins, Facebook). These identities will allow you to meet all kinds of people, and when all these software are integrated into the PLN, a rich and diverse PLN will be formed.

I try to enrich my PLN as much as possible, enrich my social media, because I think that one person’s opinion can never be accepted by everyone, so I share my opinion and welcome others to comment, I read other people’s suggestions carefully, and I may discuss ideas with others. For the results of PLN’s study I think it was very successful because I have a lot of social media and these social media helped me to meet a lot of friends before different countries in the world, and we would share our opinions together, right or wrong, and we would all give each other enough inclusiveness.

For the real world, social media is the most convenient and common way for people to communicate. But social media can also face many challenges, such as the problem of information authenticity, and the increasing number of online fraud in recent years, leading to a growing distrust of social media. And, because there are a variety of people posting different opinions on social media, some people use malicious language to attack others in order to amplify their different opinions, resulting in “cyber violence”. From this point of view inclusiveness needs to be improved, and in order to have a good PLN and social media environment, we need better regulation.

In 21 century people’s lives are full of digital, each of us will have our own digital identity. A digital identity is the subject of information about a person, organization or electronic device that exists online. We use our user name, avatar, password, date of birth and online interests, such as the types of videos we watch most and our purchase history. To form our own unique digital identity. When we have a digital identity, big data will know our interests and provide us with targeted content and advertising. We can also create various Social Media platforms that allow us to get closer to other people and communicate more easily. At the same time we can also create our own personal learning network.

PLN is a global online community, and PLN has an unrestricted openness. Ideas, resources and learning materials can be shared with educators around the world. It is maintained through various Social Media platforms and can be enhanced by following useful blogs and video content. In addition pln is very special value because everyone’s new ideas and information are changing the world faster than ever.

Of course we can develop our own professional network through various social media, such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and so on. Because these social media have better privacy and are used by a large number of people, we can better share our ideas and experiences.

I think we should give more consideration to security when we expand our professional learning network, because our personal private information is the most important anyway, only by ensuring the security of personal information can we form a healthier network environment and we can communicate more effectively. If can not guarantee data security, people won’t share it on PLN. Another aspect we need to learn to deal with different information. There are some spam messages that we should simply ignore, and we need to choose the more useful ones in order to help us learn and share the right ideas. In my website, I will create a real and positive digital image as much as possible, and I will share the right information, not some misinformation that misleads others. I will also consider online safety. I will not disclose my private information such as my bank card.