Receipts, Records, and Real-Life Learning: What a Budget Can Teach Us

Welcome back to another episode of Black-Liberation.Tech. I’m your host, Dr. Renée Jordan — educator, instructional technologist, and your companion on this journey toward digital clarity, confidence, and liberation.

Today, we’re doing something special.

We’re taking it back — all the way to June of 2021 — to two videos that lived on my dissertation website. At the time, they were simple demonstrations of digital literacies. But looking back now? They were snapshots of survival, strategy, and everyday instructional technology in real life.

And today, we’re revisiting them through a liberation lens — asking what they taught me then, what they reveal now, and what they might offer you as you level up in your own digital literacy journey.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

In this episode…

• You’ll hear two archival demonstrations of digital literacy from 2021.
• We explore budgeting as a form of digital navigation, planning, and self-determination.
• We examine credit monitoring as a digital literacy tied to agency, advocacy, and long-term decision-making.
• We connect personal financial management to broader themes of empowerment, community uplift, and tech-enabled confidence.
• We reflect on how digital literacies show up in places we often overlook — especially in Black, Afro-Latina, and Latina communities.
• We make space for thinking about how your everyday digital habits reflect resilience, creativity, and purpose.

REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS FOR LISTENERS

1. When you think about your digital habits around money — budgeting, banking, tracking, planning — what do they reveal about your relationship to stability and self-trust?
2. What digital tools do you already use to support your financial, academic, or career goals? How might you use them more intentionally?
3. How did you learn your earliest financial lessons, and how do those memories shape the way you navigate digital platforms today?
4. Where in your life are you already practicing digital literacy without naming it?
5. If you could build one new digital habit this year — big or small — what would it be?

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And until next time, remember: your digital skills are not just tools — they are pathways to freedom, clarity, and possibility.

Curate & Circulate: Reposting, Unfollowing, and the Art of Digital Stewardship

In this episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, Dr. Renee Jordan explores two often overlooked digital literacies—reposting and unfollowing—as acts of stewardship, integrity, and care.

Rather than treating these actions as passive clicks, Dr. Jordan reframes them as intentional strategies for community building and professional growth. From sharing opportunities ethically to curating a peaceful, purpose-driven feed, this conversation centers how Black, Afro-Latina, and Latina women in tech and education use digital discernment to sustain both creativity and well-being.

Listeners will learn how to:

• Repost content that informs, uplifts, and democratizes knowledge
• Give proper credit and add value when amplifying others’ voices
• Unfollow and mute with purpose—protecting focus without damaging relationships
• Build camaraderie through transparency, empathy, and professional boundaries
• Turn curation into a liberation practice rooted in Ubuntu and community care

Because in the end, digital freedom isn’t just about who you follow—it’s about how you circulate care.

Key Takeaways

1. Reposting is a form of generosity. It’s how knowledge keeps moving, connecting classrooms to communities.
2. Ethical sharing builds trust. Always cite, add context, and show how ideas connect to lived experience.
3. Unfollowing is stewardship, not rejection. It’s a boundary that protects peace and professionalism.
4. Transparency strengthens relationships. Explaining your curation choices prevents misunderstanding.
5. Liberation work includes digital hygiene. Curating what you consume helps sustain creativity and well-being.

Reflective Questions for Listeners

1. How do your reposting habits reflect your values and professional purpose?
2. When you amplify others’ work, how do you ensure you’re adding context and credit?
3. What signs tell you it’s time to unfollow or mute an account for your mental and emotional health?
4. How might you communicate your digital boundaries in ways that build trust rather than distance?
5. In what ways could you model ethical amplification for your students, colleagues, or creative peers?

Level Up: Reclaiming Digital Literacies as Tools for Liberation

In this episode of Black-Liberation.Tech, we explore what it really means to level up our digital literacies—not just to keep pace with technology, but to deepen our purpose, our community, and our sense of agency.

Drawing from the Interaction Lessons D2.0 OER, Dr. Jordan reflects on how reading, socializing, and posting online can move beyond habit into practice—becoming acts of persistence, connection, and design justice.

Together we unpack how these everyday digital actions, when approached with Ubuntu and intentionality, transform into professional power moves within Instructional Technology and beyond.

Listeners will hear:

• How to turn online reading into critical reflection and collaborative insight
• What it looks like to socialize digitally with care, reciprocity, and boundaries
• Ways to post and share knowledge that democratize information and build trust
• How Black, Afro-Latina, and Latina women are reshaping tech culture through purpose-driven digital presence

Tune in for practical frameworks, cultural grounding, and liberatory storytelling that remind us: to level up is to lift up.

Episode Highlights

• “Reading online is not just absorbing—it’s locating ourselves in the story of knowledge-making.”
• “Digital socializing becomes powerful when it honors reciprocity and community care.”
• “Posting with purpose shifts our digital presence from visibility to voice.”
• “Liberation-centered tech practice means verifying, then trusting—choosing discernment over distraction.”
• “Every scroll, comment, and share can be an act of design justice if rooted in Ubuntu.”

Reflective Questions for Listeners

1. Which digital literacy—reading, socializing, or posting—most reflects how you currently engage online?
2. How might you shift that literacy from consumption to collaboration?
3. Where do you see opportunities to use your digital presence to amplify underrepresented voices?
4. What boundaries or ethical practices help you protect your peace while staying visible?
5. How could Level Up look in your own career, classroom, or creative practice?