Hello AUC students, this is a letter that shows my experience in the digital literacy course and I hope to give you good feedback on my best experience that I had since I joined AUC.
This course is one of the most important courses that I took until now in my life. I have learned many things from it that will help me in my future life. This course helped me to know myself more because there were many things that were done throughout the semester that helped me in that. One of these things is the Soliya sessions that we took. It helps me to understand that I can be confident if I am in a good environment that is helping me in this. In other words, Soliya showed me that I am not a shy person as I was thinking, it helps me to express myself without any worries and I did not take this opportunity except in this course spicialy in Soliya sessions. Thus, one of the most important experiences I had in this course was Soliya because it helped me to discover new things in my personality. Also, the assignment Digital literacy pathways especially the tinkering pathway one because it makes me realize that I am better in expressing my feelings and what I need to say in writing more than any other way of communication. In addition, I learned another thing that I will use in my academic life which is the importance of feedback. After this class I became aware of how important feedback is because I experienced this and it was really helpful especially in the game assignment. Nevertheless, I learned other things that I will never forget and I will use it in my social life such as how social media nowadays is hearing us and tracking us for many purposes. The assignment that was talking about screening surveillance helped me realize that my social life is in danger and social media is tracking us to the way that it needs and the technology is increasing by time and one day we will not be able to control it. So, the videos that I watched in that assignment influenced me alot and helped me to learn new information that is affecting my social life. Furthermore, I think I learned something that I can use it in my career in the future such as group working and how it has a big impact on the result if the group is all working together and I saw that many times during many classes for example when we were divided into groups and each group took a special part on the course and try to give advice on how to improve the course. So, I learned from different situations that I saw in the course that group work is better than working alone because it brings different ideas and ways of thinking that is helping to have a better result on whatever the task that should be done. If anyone asks me to show my learning in this course, the first thing I will give to him is the blog posts that I did throughout the course. In my opinion one of the best thing that I have done in this course is writing everything that I made in my blogbost so I can see it again anytime and also show it to anyone who wants to know what I learned in the course because we were writing everything on it so my blog posts is like a summary for all what I did and what I learned in this course. Furthermore, I will make sure to give him/her the link to the article “Knowing the Difference Between Digital Skills and Digital Literacies, and Teaching Both”. As I learned the difference between the digital skills and the digital literacies from this article I will give him this article to help him understand more what I was learning in this course and help him to understand the difference between them. The third thing I will give to this person is the link for my Game to give him an example on how we were using what we learned in an issue that is useful and have an idea. On the other hand, as I learned all of these things from the course I have only one suggestion for this course to be changed which is the time of the course. I think that if the time was changed from 8:30 to start at 11:30 or any other time the course will be more beneficial because the students will be in the middle of the day and full of power and in their full concentration. The last thing that I will say to anyone who wants to take this course is that there is no specific kind of person that should join this course, only love what you are doing as it is very important, interesting, and talking about things that are happening around. Also, do not think of the grade and just do your best and enjoy the course. I am sure that If you did that you will have a good grade and you will learn many things at the same time.
Ahmed Emad Awad.
Aucian since 2019.
Links for the issues that were discussed in the letter.
My blog posts:
https://wordpress.com/posts/ahmedeawad.wordpress.com
Digital narrative game: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HKxUAz4_mt8GvWnFkPCX2U-0sWaZzAOH5QJAv3vjcHo/edit?usp=sharing
The digital literacy and digital skills article: https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2016/02/03/knowing-the-difference-between-digital-skills-and-digital-literacies-and-teaching-both
Screen surveillance: