Digital Citizen Badge Reflective Essay

This assignment will be reviewed by an instructor and does not include peer review requirements.

Thinking about the entirety of the digital badge and the discussion you had this week, write a short reflection (2–3 pages) on why the content of this badge will be important to you either professionally or academically – and why. You may use what you wrote for the discussion, but please expand on it in the following way:  Give concrete examples of how the content from this badge can be used,  and how are you connecting it to competencies, knowledge, and skills in your everyday life.  

In developing this reflection, please refer to at least three of the course learning objectives below, Which speak to you? Why and how?

 Learning Objectives:

• Articulate implications of using social media to form public identity
• Articulate implications of how others use social media to form a public identity for us
• Articulate implications of using social media to form public identity for others
• Examine personal privacy settings on social media and other web based sites
• Articulate implications of these privacy settings
• Research and analyze their own web presence and identity
• Synthesize issues attached to information ethics in emerging technological environments
• Remix a creation
• Apply new license to that creation
• Describe the ethical considerations of sharing this remixed creation
• Recognize and discuss the ethical considerations of sharing information
• Identify creations/content that can be legally remixed
• Apply creative commons to original work
• Explain level of openness in original work  
• Define open access
• Define "open washing”
• Differentiate between “open and “free”
• Define copyright
• Distinguish between copyright, creative commons licensing, and public domain