This past week in class we have hit hard on the slacktivism
of social media, and discussing if and when it is appropriate. Many of the
Facebook posts have focused on memes showing what slacktivism is and how it is
actually ineffective for the most part. My views on slacktivism keep going back
and forth between totally useless to best thing ever. On one side I can see how
people think that it is pointless and that it really just encourages lazy
people to change statuses and act like they are changing the world. I believe
this view is true when there are local issues at hand that you can have an
impact on personally. But as we spoke of in class what about the times when the
job or issue at hand requires government intervention and as a single individual
we can’t do anything except speak out on social media to try and rile up enough
people to force our government to get involved. The best quote I read this week
came from my Facebook post and it said that Slacktivism should be the beginning
of activism. I believe that those who regularly engage in slacktivism will
eventually catch on that they could be doing so much more for people than
trying to rely on others to get the job done when they could just do it
themselves. I believe that more and more people are starting to catch on to
this after years of little change and numerous Facebook posts, likes, and shares.
This past year has been big on the change of slacktivism to actual real life
activism, with many new marches and boycotts taking place and effecting change
for the first time in decades. My other thoughts on slacktivism is that what
can it hurt? It may spur someone into action that can do so much more than you
would ever be able to do if you had never made that post. We never know how we
may affect someone else’s life just by our small actions. After reasoning
through this again and with my thoughts on paper my final conclusion is that
social media posts should be part of any activist movement but you should try
to get more involved if at all possible, but if you stick to just social media
realize that you may or may not be helping your cause because if you don’t feel
compelled enough to do it then why should someone else?
Using Instagram for education purposes was a different experience that was very useful in understanding how education in the future may be conducted. Instagram worked fantastic for our presentation with its visual functions and slide like posts mimicking Powerpoint nicely. With it we were able to just flip through different posts and show each of our individual topics. We had no troubles with Instagram but for the specific way that we used the app it would have been much easier to stick with Powerpoint as once the pictures and screenshots were posted they could not be edited without removing and reposting. With this idea while we didn’t run into it, updating information that is relatively firm in a curriculum could run into problems with the app not allowing you to arrange where things go as they are based on time. This could pose a problem in any classroom where frequent and easy changes are needed. This could hinder the educational process and lead to more struggles for the educator...
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