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2021-03-21
Tiktok Trend involving Internet Outages
This video utilizes a Tiktok trend involving a specific audio as well as filter to illustrate internet issues an individual is facing. The audio is a clip from the song 'Got Me Good' by Ciara. -
2024-01-26
Tiktok about Internet Outage/Site Outages
This tiktok is from an individual showing several site outages/internet connectivity issues across multiple major sites. The caption indicates that he was trying to complete his work when faced with this issue. He is utilizing a site that indicates which sites are down which is shown in the video. -
2021-03-11
Tiktok Skit about Internet outage
This short video from Tiktok is about an individual dealing with internet issues and being frustrated about connectivity issues. It seems in part to be satirical as he unplugs and plugs the modem back in. -
2020-10-05
Teaching over technology: educational priorities during COVID-19
This article focuses more on the teaching side of the shift to online schooling. The reading mostly discusses different challenges that teachers face in regards to accesses with technology or ways that they can work with disadvantaged students during the pandemic. The second half of the reading focuses mostly on the support and recognition that teachers deserve due to the circumstances provided by COVID-19. -
2020-06-04
How COVID-19 Is Shaping Tech Use. What That Means When Schools Reopen
This article discusses mostly how teachers are changing their beliefs/enhancing abilities due to the switch onto the online function. The article discusses a number of relevant topics such as teacher's capabilities to utilize educational technology, ability to troubleshoot technology problems, and technological environments for both students and teachers. There is also discussion on their views on the online teaching format, as well as their responses regarding economic and technological disparities for certain groups of students. -
2020-04-30
53% of Americans Say the Internet Has Been Essential During the COVID-19 Outbreak
This Pew Research article discusses how different socioeconomic status and political preference influences how Americans believe schools should provide technology for their students. More importantly, the article goes into detail about how parents with lower incomes are more likely to struggle to provide some sort of adequate situation for their children, especially when the majority of Americans view technology and the internet as an essential tool during the pandemic. Besides student access to technology, economic class is also having an impact on how some individuals can afford their own internet connections and phone plans, thereby limiting their access. -
2020-06-16
The Digital Divide Among Students During COVID-19: Who Has Access? Who Doesn't?
The article goes into detail, drawing from multiple survey sources on the internet to discuss how geographical location and economic class has affected the way that some students have been able to adapt to online instruction. Sources like the Pew Research Center show information from parents about their children's access to technology and how it has affected their capacity to complete their schoolwork, and compares that information to different school districts' capabilities to provide reliable sources of internet/other technology during school shutdowns. The article concludes by questioning how public education is a right in the US, but due to access with technology, and even basic technological issues for those who already had access to sufficient technology, has questioned how America's students are struggling to gain what they should be ensured. -
2020-06-01
How COVID-19 exposed challenges for technology in education
The article addresses how challenges in access/use of technology by students and teachers have been highlighted due to the pandemic -
2020-09-24
Tech Struggles During COVID-19 Hurting Students’ Ability to Learn, Educators Say
This article comes from the perspective of educators who struggled with teaching students remotely, and includes statistics referring to students who had technology/situational issues that affected their work. -
2020-05-19
COVID-19, Technology, and Implications for Educational Equity (Sociology of Education)
This article addresses the divide between students who had easy access to technology/digital skills during the pandemic, and how it came into play in regards to grades -
2020-03-28
Moving Out of My First Apartment
During the 2019-2020, I was living at Vista Del Sol, the apartment style housing available to upper division Barrett students at Arizona State University. I was fortunate to share my apartment with three close friends, and over the course of the school year, we had often gotten together with some of our other friends to hang out and enjoy the college lifestyle in our apartment. After we all returned from spring break, we discussed how uncertain our futures would be with the pandemic, and with so little information or precedent available to us, we all faced uncertain circumstances. Three of us were from Tucson, but our fourth roommate was an out of state student, but we all wanted to remain in our room until the conclusion of the semester (when we were sure the whole situation would be over). However, with added stress from our parents, we found out over the course of a week, that all of our parents expected us to return home, where they presumed we'd be safer and better monitored, instead of leaving us to our own devices. Packing and spending those moments together were heartbreaking, and would only be amplified in the coming months as we were unable to see each other and spend time together, even for special occasions such as birthdays or other events. As a last hurrah, the weekend before our first roommate moved out, we threw ourselves a little goodbye party, with a roommates photoshoot that we reference even now, a year later. -
2020-05-15
Living with a First Responder
My father is a police officer, and despite all the lockdown procedures in place in my hometown (Tucson, Arizona), that meant little regarding my dad's responsibilities at work. However, with the added stress of the pandemic, and the uncertain procedures that rapidly rose around it, I often watched as my dad would stop by the house during work to switch out clothes and take extra sanitization procedures because he had gone out on a call and been in contact with an individual who would only disclose that they had the coronavirus after he dealt with the report. These situations, especially early on in the pandemic, meant a lot of unknown variables for my family as we did our best to stay safe in a situation where we weren't always sure what to do. -
2021-02-01
Just 5 percent of vaccinations have gone to Black Americans, despite equity efforts
An article discussing how racial disparities can be viewed in regards to Black communities and the coronavirus. -
2021-02-05
Across The South, COVID-19 Vaccine Sites Missing From Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods
An article and short podcast discussing how difficult it is to get vaccinated in Black neighborhoods, mostly due to lack of vaccinations and locations. -
2021-02-18
COVID-19 has already cut U.S. life expectancy by a year. For Black Americans, it's worse
The article discusses how the coronavirus is affecting Americans, especially how communities of color are suffering disproportionately (especially in regards to Black Americans and their life expectancy). -
2021-01-21
Nearly 1 in 5 Defendants in Capitol Riot Cases Served in the Military
The article discusses the Capitol riots and the veterans who participated in them, as well as recent extremist behavior within the military and the government's response. -
2021-02-05
Defense Department sending 1,000 troops to assist with vaccinations
The article discusses the federal government's aid in California, where they would be sending troops to assist with vaccinations, as well as open two federally run vaccination sites in order to ensure that anyone wanting a COVID-19 vaccine would be able to get one. -
2021-01-07
As the pandemic puts strain on LGBTQ youth mental health, here's some advice
A news article discussing the mental struggles of the LGBTQ+ youth, and how quarantine is negatively affecting their health, as well as some helpful tips. -
2021-01-23
The Illinois National Guard’s latest mission: Help vaccinate Cook County from COVID-19
The article highlights how the National Guard is both assisting in distributing COVID-19 vaccines, as well as combating potential skeptics' worry about the vaccines' effects. -
2020-12-09
Covid: 'How a picture of my foot became anti-vaccine propaganda'
A woman named Patricia developed severe blisters on her feet several days after receiving a placebo COVID-19 virus. While attempting to raise money for her medical bills, her story became twisted, causing it to spread across the internet that the vaccine had caused her new skin condition - even though this was not the case. -
2020-12-15
No, COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain Satan’s microchips (and other scary conspiracy theories aren’t true either)
The article addresses four of the main COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies as well as expert opinions about them. -
2020-12-18
Covid vaccine and mask conspiracies succeed when they appeal to identity and ideology
This article introduces motives behind those who join conspiracy theories revolving around the COVID-19 vaccine -
2020-05-29
Coronavirus: Bill Gates 'microchip' conspiracy theory and other vaccine claims fact-checked
This story specifically addresses and debunks the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus vaccine implants microchips into an individual's bloodstream, as well as some background ideas as to why conspiracy theories are prevalent and a rumored cow dung vaccine. -
2021-01-20
China turbocharges bid to discredit Western vaccines, spread virus conspiracy theories
A Washington Post article highlighting how the Chinese government is attempting to discredit the new COVID-19 vaccines since they themselves were unable to produce an effective vaccine as they claimed -
2021-01-17
Twitch Streaming
At the end of last year, after some motivation from my friends, I began to stream on the gaming stream platform Twitch. It had always been a wish of mine to do something along those lines, but my timidness limited my capabilities. Considering how much of my time in quarantine was spent gaming, my friends encouraged me to start streaming, while I still had the opportunity. I can't wait to continue in the new year, especially with the support of my friends, so that I can have a small following in the future! -
2021-01-17
MMORPGs in Quarantine
Over quarantine, with so much more free time, my friends and I found ourselves becoming invested into a fun mobile game called Dragon Raja, where we customized characters and created friends from around the country/world. The game had events scheduled at specific times every day, which allowed us to keep track of the days as the months dragged on, giving us something to look forward to when there wasn't much that we could do together.