Ok. I got my cellphone 1.5 yrs. ago. I have not downloaded apps ..because I don't use them. All formally university trained IT folks in Canada, warn NOT to download bank apps for iphone to do banking. Do your banking on desktop /at home. Public wifis are not secure. There is no guarantee of good/tight security. I don't use twitter, facebook nor instagram. 1 of the hospital networks where a sister works, it got hacked..cyber-hacked in Toronto. This is a hospital for pediatric care and research. This includes critical care. Several Canadian municipalities have been cyber ransomed. It was very serious.
I suggest if you have time do the reverse: research just a few big cyber-hacked cases on Internet and explain/insist to a receptive employer, that you are able to teach with existing software. No need for all the apps. You are in SE Asia and folks there are absolutely not reading the critical serious cyber-hacking that has happened in North America within the last 12 months. I can imagine for full-time teacher like you, online teaching requires additional set of skills in addition to traditional. Plus now, it's the concern of plagiarism by students. :( A problem now teachers in North America increasingly must pay attention.
If it wasn't for the religious aspect, I think I'd like to be Amish. I haven't had a mobile phone since 2016 (https://bradonomics.com/single-function-devices/). It's mostly not been a problem. I have had to set up an Android device in a virtual machine once. There was a site I needed access to that required an TOTP authentication app. At the time I didn't know an alternative. One inconvenience in eight years. Not having a mobile phone isn't as bad as you'd think. There's plenty of room on this bandwagon if you want to join.
It's interesting that you bring this up. I recently facilitated a creative writing group for Seniors in which we used the time each week to write to assigned 'prompts,' on the spot. Nothing profound there, EXCEPT that I insisted everyone who was able to, use a pen or pencil. Prior to the class, I had done lots of (credibly sourced) research online which proved that writing things down - either creatively or for future memory retrieval - uses a totally different bit of the brain AND a more effective part at least as far as remembering goes. So the old-school Moleskines and "daily planners" suddenly make absolute sense again and particularly when our attention spans are slowly being ebbed away with each vapid YouTube make-up tutorial we watch. (And as an "older woman" I'm still going to wear eyeliner anyway, gah!) But seriously, whenever I do a "manual"grocery list the writing seems to really make it stick. The seniors (I hate that word but that's what the class was called!) were truly impressed/surprised and commented on the difference it made to their actual writing process as well, as they aligned their thoughts differently, more creatively. I do always love a little book in my purse myself :) Enjoyed this post a lot, Lani. I think what you say here is spot-on, at least to my way of thinking:* I don’t want to be shackled with all this digital garbage, but I can’t run off into the woods and hide either *. YES!!!
VPN is good.
Ok. I got my cellphone 1.5 yrs. ago. I have not downloaded apps ..because I don't use them. All formally university trained IT folks in Canada, warn NOT to download bank apps for iphone to do banking. Do your banking on desktop /at home. Public wifis are not secure. There is no guarantee of good/tight security. I don't use twitter, facebook nor instagram. 1 of the hospital networks where a sister works, it got hacked..cyber-hacked in Toronto. This is a hospital for pediatric care and research. This includes critical care. Several Canadian municipalities have been cyber ransomed. It was very serious.
I suggest if you have time do the reverse: research just a few big cyber-hacked cases on Internet and explain/insist to a receptive employer, that you are able to teach with existing software. No need for all the apps. You are in SE Asia and folks there are absolutely not reading the critical serious cyber-hacking that has happened in North America within the last 12 months. I can imagine for full-time teacher like you, online teaching requires additional set of skills in addition to traditional. Plus now, it's the concern of plagiarism by students. :( A problem now teachers in North America increasingly must pay attention.
If it wasn't for the religious aspect, I think I'd like to be Amish. I haven't had a mobile phone since 2016 (https://bradonomics.com/single-function-devices/). It's mostly not been a problem. I have had to set up an Android device in a virtual machine once. There was a site I needed access to that required an TOTP authentication app. At the time I didn't know an alternative. One inconvenience in eight years. Not having a mobile phone isn't as bad as you'd think. There's plenty of room on this bandwagon if you want to join.
It's interesting that you bring this up. I recently facilitated a creative writing group for Seniors in which we used the time each week to write to assigned 'prompts,' on the spot. Nothing profound there, EXCEPT that I insisted everyone who was able to, use a pen or pencil. Prior to the class, I had done lots of (credibly sourced) research online which proved that writing things down - either creatively or for future memory retrieval - uses a totally different bit of the brain AND a more effective part at least as far as remembering goes. So the old-school Moleskines and "daily planners" suddenly make absolute sense again and particularly when our attention spans are slowly being ebbed away with each vapid YouTube make-up tutorial we watch. (And as an "older woman" I'm still going to wear eyeliner anyway, gah!) But seriously, whenever I do a "manual"grocery list the writing seems to really make it stick. The seniors (I hate that word but that's what the class was called!) were truly impressed/surprised and commented on the difference it made to their actual writing process as well, as they aligned their thoughts differently, more creatively. I do always love a little book in my purse myself :) Enjoyed this post a lot, Lani. I think what you say here is spot-on, at least to my way of thinking:* I don’t want to be shackled with all this digital garbage, but I can’t run off into the woods and hide either *. YES!!!