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A Small Defense of Hashtags

This week, I kept thinking about the different types of knowledge discussed in Zgheib and Dabbagh’s (2020) article on Social Media Learning Activities: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge. Some of them were easy to understand. Procedural knowledge appeared when students created something, such as a blog, podcast, or infographic. That made sense to me because making a final product requires students to learn not only the content, but also the process of organizing ideas, using tools, and producing something shareable. Metacognitive knowledge also felt familiar. When I write a blog post, I first think about what I learned from the readings, connect it to what I already know, and then try to synthesize everything in my own words. Even revising my post makes me ask, “Is this really what I mean?” That process feels very metacognitive. But the most interesting part for me was conceptual knowledge. Zgheib and Dabbagh noted that conceptual knowledge can be promoted thr...
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From Submit Button to Public Blogging

This week, I kept thinking about how our course itself is using Web 2.0. In one of the readings, Zgheib and Dabbagh (2020) discuss an interesting problem: even when instructors use social media or Web 2.0 tools, the activity does not always become truly “social.” Sometimes the tool is used almost like a regular LMS. The instructor posts materials, students submit something, and the interaction still mostly goes in one direction: from instructor to student. That made me think about our class blog. Technically, our professor, Vanessa could have used Canvas in a very simple way: upload the readings, post weekly prompts, collect assignments, and maybe leave grades or comments. That would still be online learning, but it would not necessarily create much student-to-student interaction. Instead, our course uses public blogging. We write our thoughts where classmates can see them. We read each other’s posts. We leave comments. Sometimes we notice that someone interpreted the same reading in a...
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Saved, Liked, and Still Not Exercised

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In my previous post, I wrote about my Instagram saved list, which is made up of 65% recipes and 20% new restaurants. So what about the remaining 15%? 5% is life hacks, and 10% is workout routines. This post is about the kind of treasure I found, carefully buried, and then never allowed to see the light of day. Yes, I am talking about workout routines that I only saved. Recently, a singer I love, who had gone through a long and difficult time with depression and binge eating disorder, returned in a healthy and joyful way. She released a new album with her brother, and then posted a 30-minute aerobic workout video using one of the album’s songs as the background music. I left a comment saying, “I clicked because Suhyun’s smile was so pretty. I’ll do the workout next time.” Within two days, the comment received 650 likes. That probably means many people related to it, right? My networked knowledge ecosystem may have stopped at the stage of collecting, but through all those likes, I defin...
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From Saved Recipes to Shared Dinners

There is a saying I once heard: “If someone asks you, ‘Why go that far?’ then that is probably your thing.” After hearing that, I started wondering what I personally “go that far” or " being extra "  for. I think, for me, it is cooking. Technically, I could just make something simple with whatever happens to be in my fridge. But if I suddenly decide that I want to make an apple, Brie, and arugula sandwich, I am absolutely the kind of person who needs to run to grocery to have every single ingredient. Some of my friends find cooking annoying. One type of friend says it feels like a waste of time to spend thirty minutes cooking something that will be eaten in ten. Another says they honestly do not care much about taste, so as long as something goes into their mouth, they are fine eating whatever is available. But I think about cooking very differently. To me, cooking is a full cycle of happiness: finding the freshest seasonal ingredients, spending 15 to 30 minutes making somet...
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The Risotto was Innocent: How a Hinge Date Lost to Google.

 This week's readings got me thinking about privacy online, but honestly, they mainly reminded me of one story. 
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Why I lurk

 As someone who lived, at least briefly, in both times of undigitalized and digitalized, I sometimes wonder whether we have become a little too paranoid about privacy. To be fair, I was too young to fully understand how information was managed back then, so I cannot make a perfect comparison. Still, I have always been a naturally cautious person online. I am the kind of user who actually reads permission requests and refuses to click the “Accept All” button unless I have to. Because of that, I often feel both empowered and vulnerable in digital spaces. The internet has certainly made information easier to access. Sometimes that accessibility can even feel beneficial. This tension shapes how I participate online. In secure and bounded environments such as Canvas, or fully private account on Social Media, I am comfortable sharing ideas, participating in discussions, submitting assignments, uploading my pictures, and hyping my friend through comments. The purpose of the platform is ed...
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Open Badge: woah, I want this; never mind, I don't want it.

  One thing that immediately came to mind while reading Randall and West's article of open badges was a question I have always had about résumés. Whenever I read a résumé, I find myself wondering: How do we know any of this is true? Of course, I'm not suggesting that people are lying. But résumés are fundamentally self-descriptions. No one is humble on it. Someone can write that they are an excellent leader, a strong communicator, or an innovative problem solver, and there is often very little evidence attached to those claims. Among colleagues, I've occasionally joked that the person on a résumé and the person in real life can feel like two completely different people. This is probably one reason why graduate programs and employers often ask for recommendation letters. They provide an external perspective and help validate some of the claims made by applicants. Even so, I've always felt there are still gaps in the process. Recommendation letters are subjective, and not...
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