Question 2: Digital Literacy

Question 2: Digital Literacy

Q.2.1 The 6 Ds and its use of the solution fluency process.

There are always people that struggle with finding work as there is “unemployment between the ages of 15 and 24 has reached a staggering of 71 million”. People struggle because they do not have the skills required to work at a job that includes computers or anything to do thing technology.

The solution fluency process:

Define: Looking where the problem is occurring and then deciding what to do to try fix it, however, this may be difficult as we have to try being as close to defining the right problem. This will help start trying to fix unemployment by finding solutions to help.

ë  Unemployment problems between the age of 15 and 24 around my area at Mabopane.

ë  There is a large number of unemployment in my area; whereby, in this case the single issue of unemployment lead to crime caused by poverty which is the core fact of everything here. 

Discover: this is the stage where we examine the problem and see how it reached the point of reaching the staggering of 71 million and also on how it could have been avoided in the past.

ë  This stage will help unemployment problems in looking at where jobs have been lost, why and what to improve on.

ë  What I have discovered the most is that there is lot of ‘Lack of skills, knowledge, information, experience and laziness’

At my area most of the age group between 17 and 24 years old the job market previously wasn't as competitive as it is today, however, to qualify for a job one of the needs is 3 years of tertiary education plus experience; yet due to socioeconomic factors a lot of people in my area aren't well financial satiable to obtain a tertiary education and therefore may struggle to find a job.

Dream: this stage is where we look at the future and what solutions can be made to help unemployment, in this case. We will look at all the possibilities as well as the problem areas that may arise.

ë  Assuring that all people within our country and particular areas have sufficient education and tools needed for success.

ë  I believe more access to vocational training for people ‘youth’ who are out of school or who do not have skills would be ready to enter into more of hand-working jobs such as constriction and agriculture and be beneficial for their long term work prospects (Crockett R, 2017).

Design: the design phase is when we now see how we can get to the stage we are looking for in the future and then so to start planning and evaluating all solutions.

ë  This would be done by setting up various vocational training programs in order to help the youth gain skills.

Deliver: this “puts the design phase into action”, meaning that whatever ideas that comes up with to help unemployment is to start creating the solutions.

ë  For example; Skills Development Workshop, computer classes and there after start proposing them to people out there in different businesses/ companies.

Debrief: this is the final stage where we look at everything we have done and see what areas were good and helpful and the areas that may need more research. We would see if the outcome of all the research helped and made a difference at the end (Mavuso, N. 2017).

Q.2.2 Digital footprints can be construed as trails that digital citizens leave online. Do you think that digital footprints could become a problem? Discuss.

Yes, I do think this can be a huge problem.

As so much of what is said online is irreversible. Some people do not have adequate privacy settings on their social media for example, anyone in the world can access their social media accounts, which can often have quite personal information on them. This has the potential to be very dangerous (Open University, 2016).

In the online world as this is an individual's online reputation. If something is posted or sent it is there forever, whether the person who has posted or sent it has, changed their perception of the content or not or even if that person delete whatever he/she has post it will still be there somewhere. The problem is that if it is something negative, others perception of this person will be based on that negative action.

Everything we do online leaves a footprint. Which means, even if we delete our pictures and information, someone somewhere will be able to find it. “Someone may have already accessed it, viewed it and saved it” (Module Manual, 2017, pp.55-57). Meaning one’s privacy is being violated. Anyone could gain access to your email address, and if you were tagged at your home at any point in time, anyone would be able to find you. People can find out anything about you, at the click of a button, if you at some point in your life, put that information online.

Q.2.3 Few tips on how one can manage their digital footprint.

ë  Delete all tracking cookies and browsing history from your computer regularly, and choose safe and secure passwords that are unique to each login and make sure to change them regularly.

ë  Make sure to use the latest version of your Internet browser. Such as the Internet Explorer 10 has extra built-in security. Review security settings on social networks and stay updated on new features and settings.

ë  The best tip for helping students maintain privacy on Twitter is one that can be applied across the whole spectrum of social networking tools: Don’t overshare. As much of an unfamiliar concept as it may be to students these days, the only way to avoid digital footprint trouble is for them to keep quiet about anything they wouldn’t want to share with everyone in town. This includes usernames, passwords, last names, full-names-as-usernames, pictures, addresses, and other important information.