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Journal Day 4

                       “Peer Social Comparison and Setting Comparison”

       “The world is a jungle you either fight or run forever”. In everyday life we may face challenges that are too hard for us. But these challenges are for your development as a person. The only thing we can do is face it. You can turn your back and run away from it, but you may lose the chance of developing yourself as a better person. 

         As an adolescent,  because of this challenges we often compare ourselves to others. This can have either a negative effect or a positive effect on a person. But if you compare yourself by learning from the person who you are comparing to, not by looking down on them just to feel better. Your personal development will improve and you will face your challenges frequently because you have a goal to reach by becoming that certain someone or even becoming greater than that person.

        As we grow older our challenges gets harder, but no challenges that are too hard for us to face. If you have the will to do it you can do it. Don’t lose hope to yourself because everything you see right now is darkness. Just continue hoping and someone/something will come and show you the light in this world. 

@krishavanessa​

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Journal Day 3

  “Being Mindful With The Self And Entering the Phase of Middle and Late Adolescence”

            In our class, I’ve learned important lessons that can help me grow as a better person in life. I have learned that being mindful with the self can help my personal development because being mindful can make you develop skills like being aware about everything that surrounds you. It helps you understand and realized about your uniqueness and your capabilities. Being mindful with the self is not that easy to do because, you still don’t know yourself. You still don’t know what part of you that needs to be aware of.

            On the other lesson, that is about entering the phase of middle and late adolescence. I have learned that changes in me physically and mentally is part of my development. Some changes might be negative or positive but, in order to grow we need to accept these changes and adjust it for the betterment of our selves.

            For the sake of our development we must improve our selves by learning new skills in life to move forward and, accept the things that has been given to you and appreciate it because this is a part of your personal development.

@krishavanessa

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Journal Day 2

                                           “Expressing One’s self”

        Earlier today, we have our first activity in our Personal Development subject. The activity is about sharing your self perception in class. Because of this activity, I was able to share my perception about myself and I also realized that I only know a small part of who my classmates really are, even though we have been classmates for a long time now. I didn’t know that some of my classmates can relate to me because they were confident-looking when we were together in our classroom before. I was too quick to judge them just by looking at  their physical appearance or the things that they show. 

        I was thankful of this activity because we were able to learn everyone’s perception about themselves. This reminded us to look at people beyond what we see because everyone has their own story waiting to be told.  

@krishavanessa

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Journal Day 1

                                         “Getting To Know One’s self”

          Have you ever wondered if you really know yourself? How do we even get to know ourselves? What do we gain from doing so? We all have basic knowledge about ourselves when it comes to our physical characteristics, personality traits, and social identity. These three falls under self-concept. Self-concept is how you define yourself and everything you know about yourself.

          People tend to underestimate themselves, while others see themselves as higher than the others.  Your self-esteem is affected based on how you see yourself. We need to have a deeper knowledge about ourselves and how our minds work, this can also help us enhance our self-awareness. Self-awareness is knowing one’s own personality, character, and emotions.

           With these concepts, I realized that you must know who you are rather than just taking other’s perception about what you are as a person. Of course people’s opinion matters, but in order to improve yourself and your capabilities, you must explore more about yourself. 

@krishavanessa

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“Give concrete situations that you have observed digital divide, and as a student, what simple steps can you do to bridge the gap of this digital divide?”.-Kenneth Heredia

    The digital divide is a term that refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology, and those that don't or have restricted access. This technology can include telephone, television, personal computers, and the Internet. The digital divide is the gap that exists between individuals who have access to modern information and communication technology and those who lack access. It is unfair for other people because they don't have access to the internet. The place they lived don't have internet connections and they have low network signal. Rural areas have a disadvantage in terms of internet connection and network signal speed. They are slower compared to the internet speed and network signal speed on urban areas. Urban areas are more prone to internet speed because it is surrounded by cities and urban areas are more developed whereas it has more satellite internet.     There are three types of the digital divide and these are gender divide, social divide, and universal access divide. The gender divide is the difference between groups with access to technology and the internet and those without.  Women often have less access to technology and the internet compared to boys and men. The social divide is the difference between having a group in social media and not having a group is a disadvantage. The universal access divide is that people with disabilities are a disadvantage in using the internet, even though they have the skill they can't exploit the available hardware and software. Concrete situations that I have observed is when we have our online class, a few of my classmates keep getting disconnected from google meet because their network signal is so slow. To bridge the gap of the digital divide we should learn to become a digital literate so that we can understand more about technologies and to become skillful technically.

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“Understanding the Relevance of Information Literacy in the Midst of Social Era”-Kenneth Heredia

       As we already know, information literacy is the capability to understand information and how it works. We are called information literate individuals because we have the ability to know, evaluate, and use the information to confirm or verify something, especially with the news we see everywhere on the internet nowadays. We are currently living in a generation where social media has become a part of our daily lives. We are in an era where we have networks of connection with a lot of people and ideas around the world or as often referred to as the social era. Information literacy is very important particularly in the midst of the social era because the content that we see on the internet is not always from credible sources. Any person who uses the internet or social media can publish content that other people can access whether the information is accurate or not.        We should verify the things we see every day on the internet before we believe it right away. We should research more information that is related to a post or a piece of news that we read on the internet. Even the most creative and trusty looking content or article can be inaccurate or fake. These types of news are created by cyber troops. Cyber troops are government and political party teams committed to manipulating public opinion over social media. People often get misinformation and change the way they think. It can dramatically amplify the power of disinformation by using people to repost or share these contents. Without information literate individuals, negativity could have spread more throughout the world. They are the ones who can identify if the news is credible or fake. That's why being an information literate individual is very important and helpful to society and in the community.

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”The Value of Being a Media and information literate individual” - Kenneth Heredia

We are living in a modern world where technology is everywhere and is basically a part of our daily routine. Almost every person has their own gadgets such as cellphones, computers, laptops, etc. It is now easier for us to gather information from different sources on the internet. Being a media and information literate individual gives us the advantage of knowing whether the information we got from the internet is right or wrong. With the extensive time we spend on browsing online, we can easily identify whether the information we read is accurate or not. We can now easily communicate with other people in different places just by using the internet. Exchanging of ideas has became more efficient overtime. It also helps us to become more knowledgeable and more skillful. It is very beneficial to students, such as myself, because it improves our learning process and guides us in finding jobs for our future careers. 

Expressing our opinions was made easier through social media. We can now share and post anything publicly on the internet at anytime. Even with the freedom given to us by using the social media, we should not abuse this privilege and always keep in mind the right conduct as a person.Always share a post that can help society get good ideas and avoid sharing a post that can offend anyone. We can share a post in many ways in different social media platforms such as Youtube, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, etc.  Being a media and information literate individual, we should know everything that has to do with media. This is very important so that we can find out and analyze what we saw in the media. In social media, it's not always the important things that are present, there are also funny pictures or video and any different kind of stuff on the internet.