I chose the Kuzuryu Yokai because I have always been interested in dinosaurs, dragons and mythical creatures since I was 7. So, this was the perfect Yokai to learn and discover about.
Name some characteristics and provide a background history/summary on your Yokai.
The kurzuryu is a 9 headed dragon that is described differently depending on where u are. The Kurzuryu was first found when a monk named Gakumon starting living in mount Togakushi. After chanting the lotus sutra, the Kuzuryu appeared before him. The dragon tells him that he was a steward of a nearby temple but turned into a dragon because he stole the donations to the temple. After listening to Gakumon’s recitations, he was enlightened and vowed to remain in the cave and protect the area. After Gakumon blocked the cave entrance with a boulder. After the dragon blessed the land with rain and water.
Do you think Japanese Yokai differ from Western monsters and mythical creatures? Explain.
I think that Japanese Yokai differ from Western monsters because Yokai have a wide range of attitude towards humans whether its friendly, helpful or mischievous. But with Western monsters, their behavior towards humans is commonly threats to humans. Another difference is Yokai comes from folklore, cultural and historical context. While Western monsters usually root from mythologies.
Do you believe in Yokai, monsters, ghosts, or mythical creatures? Why or why not?
I don’t believe in mythical creatures, but I believe that they roamed the earth at one point in time because of lots of unexplained traces that they could of have been on earth. There are also many stories and myths in my ethical background of mythical creatures existing a long time ago and even now.
An Explanation of why Internet Safety and being Positive is Important
Internet safety and being positive online is important because it can affect whether you get a certain job, get into a post secondary and being safe from blackmail. Being aware of what you put online is really important to keep your identity and personal information hidden. Browsers and search engines are constantly keeping track of what you put out online and what u do online. For example, what you post on social media, the things you write in the comment section of a social media post, subscriptions you signed up for and your banking information. These can all affect your digital footprint crucially because they can be lead to blackmailing or identity theft. A way people steal your private information is you downloading malicious malware, clicking random links and signing into fake websites. To avoid this is to look for clues in the links or websites. Majority of the time something will be off, whether the font or text size is different, the link being different from the real website or sketchy download sites. Another way to stay safe is putting your social media accounts to private or friends only so, you can decide whether you let someone see your post. So being positive online keeps your digital footprint cleaner.
Examples of unsafe and negative activities
Cyberbully is one of the biggest issue online because it causes many children to have emotional problems. This can heavily impact your Digital footprint. Being aware of how much of yourself you put online is really important because if you put too much of yourself on the internet you’ll be phished as and others may be affected from phishing such as a predator situation. Never share inappropriate photos of yourself or others, because it is impossible to delete those photos. Also doxing someone’s personal information is illegal and can be almost career ending if it goes on your digital footprint.
How To Stay Safe
Staying safe online includes keeping all your passwords and personal information safe and only with you. Which can include not sharing your passwords with friends, they could potentially screenshot and mess with your account, and minimizing how much information you put out about yourself on social media accounts.
Personal/Social Competency Reflection
I make digital ethical choices such as (consider commenting on others’ posts, thinking about what you put online) in order to keep my private information safe and digital footprint clean. As well as thinking about what I post on my social media accounts in order to not get phished as.
I think my experiences as a digital citizen, such as social media influenced my choice of course/hobbies/ teams because there are many videos out there of games, sports or potential interest that have inspired me to learn those things. One of the biggest things social media has influenced me to do is start playing volleyball.
My strengths as a digital citizen include helping others that are less experienced, They contribute to my classroom through simple helping people sign into a new website they’ve never used or helping a teacher with technical problems with electronics. I find this is the most helpful way to help a large group of people especially if the teacher is trying to start a lesson quicker.
Work Cited
Security, Canadian Centre for Cyber. “Digital Footprint (ITSAP.00.133).” Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, 12 Jan. 2022, https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/digital-footprint-itsap00133.
“What Is Digital Footprint? How to Manage and Protect Yours.” Malwarebytes, https://www.malwarebytes.com/cybersecurity/basics/digital-footprint. Accessed 21 Sept. 2023.
After each lab, my understanding of the scientific method has improved greatly because after my first experiment (golf tower), I learned two things through testing and seeing. The first being in the testing phase, always seek out the flaws. In the golf tower challenge my partner and I encountered our tower sections were uneven. which made it lean and the golf ball just falling through the tower. The second being never get lazy with your design. This is because we got lazy in some parts of our design which made our tower have0 flaws in the part we got lazy on.
With my second experiment (ball launcher) I applied these things I learned from my last experiment. Although it wasn’t perfect and still had flaws, my group and I fixed majority of the issues to where we had good results. Our main issues being not being able to aim where the ball went and the consistency of the distance it went.
Core Competency Self Assessment and Creative Thinking
Why is it Important to Celebrate our accomplishments:
I believe its important to celebrate our accomplishments because it build confidence in yourself and classmates and pushes you to reach for a bigger goal next time. The Lab I’m most proud of is the ball launcher because my teammates and I had a better understanding of what to look for and do, which made us confident in our design.
What Strategies did you use to Overcome those Challenges:
Some strategies I used to overcome those challenges were using inductive learning to seek out the flaws of our design. Then used deductive learning to see if our solutions to our flaws worked. Another strategy my group used is brainstorming new ideas if our original planned wouldn’t work.
Describe your experience with understanding of the Scientific Method doing the 2 labs?:
my experience with the scientific method through labs bettered my understanding, through talking with classmates and teammates about our designs and hypothesis. This has helped me a lot with remembering each step and my general understanding of the scientific method
Tell me how you did the following:
A) I demonstrated that I can create new things when I my teammates during both labs were stuck on a issue and brainstormed new ideas and combined our ideas with classmates designs. for example, on our ball launcher we were stuck on how to plant the launcher onto the cardboard, so we took a look around the class and inspired our tape design off another groups.
B) I demonstrated that I can build on the ideas of others when my friend and I were doing the golf tower challenge. We both had different ideas on how to make it as tall as possible. But with lots of brainstorming and final tweaks, we came up with our design.
C) When trying new things, I expect setbacks and failure and use them to develop my ideas. An example of this from the Scientific Method labs would be when we did our golf tower. We expected setbacks because of the inconsistency of the tubes building up and the base leaning one way a bit more. But we resolved this problem by leaning the tower the other way to act as a counter balance. For the inconsistent tubes we just rerolled them until it was stable enough to gold the golf ball.
From what I remember, I started doing chores around the house such as folding my clothes and putting them away since I could ride a bike. In my opinion, I think society has gotten a lot more dangerous for younger kids to be on their own, as the crime rates have increased immensely over the past 10 years. So, I think that unless parents can trust their kids being on their own, I personally think that it’s good for kids to learn the Japanese ideals because it gives them a sense of responsibility. From what I remember. I started using transit with parents at the age of 7, but I was only confident in my ability to get around by myself when I was 11 or 12. But I’ve always gone to school by myself as the previous schools I’ve went to have only been 5-10 minutes away, which is probably the first place I’ve travelled alone to.
The very first time my curiosity sparked in the language was when I heard my relatives speaking Japanese. I was intrigued by the language so, on my own time I learned more about the culture and language. While researching I found out about how beautiful the architecture is and how advanced the technology is in japan. upon learning about this, I had a new found respect for the country.
Goals:
With my new language skills, I hope to read and understand oral forms of the language to a degree. So if I go on a trip to Japan with relatives, I’m not completely reliant on them for translations. Maybe one day going without relatives and being the translator for friends.
Motivation:
My motivations for learning Japanese is using it as a gateway language to learn Cantonese or Mandarin. As both my grandparents speak Cantonese and Mandarin as their first language, so I can communicate with them in their preferred language. Also the ability to communicate with someone who has a difficulty speaking English seems really helpful to people around me.
