Core Competencies

Keira Storms

February 19, 2020

Communication

Throughout my learning, I have used communication to help get my ideas out and into my work. When doing an assignment, it is important to take the skills that the teacher has provided us with and form them into our own piece of work. Communication helps me do this as it gives me an opportunity to share my learning. For example, in Career Life Education class, we partook in a project called the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative. This was an eye-opening project as it exposed us to different groups of people in our community. For the YPI project, we had to research a charity and communicate our interpretation of the charity’s values to our classmates. The skill of communicating helped us as students to collaborate with one another and share our findings.

Critical Thinking

During school, the skill of thinking is one that is used in every class. We are given pieces of work and asked to analyze and reflect on it. This a crucial skill as it is something that is used in everyday life, not just in an educational setting. Responding to text with critical thinking is another useful tool that is very present in our learning. In English class, we are given stories to read and analyze to find the true meaning. This way of thinking helps you think deeper and learn what information is most important. When reading a short story, analyzing the storyline, setting, and characters can help you reach this level of thinking, and will give you the opportunity to ask and answer meaningful questions.

Personal Responsibility

In school, it is important to take responsibility in your learning. You are the only one who has real control over your work and the marks you get, so taking responsibility for yourself is a crucial part of achieving your goals. A time where I really took responsibility for my learning was when I transitioned from middle school to high school. In middle school, there are always teachers making sure you are doing all your work and staying on task. In high school, you are the only one who can make sure you are completing all your jobs efficiently. I got used to always being looked after by a teacher in middle school, and when I went to high school the transition was jarring. It was important for me to immediately realize my role in my learning and take full personal responsibility.

My Digital Literacy Infographic

When I google my name, my Gmail account is the only thing that pops up. I think that having only my Gmail account popping up is not a bad thing, because it shows that I don’t have a bad digital footprint.

Question 1- How might your digital footprint affect your future opportunities?

I think that if your digital footprint is unflattering to your image, it will show future jobs or universities about your private life, and things that may or may not be professional. This will show your future job what you what kind of person you are outside of your work enviorment.

If for example, you have pictures online of you drinking or doing drugs, this will make you seem unprofessional, and unfit for a a mature workplace.

Question 2-  Describe at least three strategies that you can use to keep your digital footprint appropriate and safe.

If you want to keep your digital footprint appropriate, make sure you only post professional photos, and photos that you would be fine with people who are trying to hire you seeing.

Make sure you know who’s following you, because your followers have access to your pictures. Make sure you know your followers are trustworthy.

Don’t let your friends tag you in pictures if they are unprofessional.

Question 3- What information did you learn that you would pass on to other students? How would you go about telling them?

I would tell fellow students to always be mature and professional online, because you never know who can see your posts. If it is your followers, your followers friends, or your followers followers (tagged posts), make sure the posts are professional.