#2 Microsoft word and copyright

Microsoft Word has become very commonplace in my educational experience for both teachers and students. I regularly use Word for typing papers, which makes formatting and citations streamline, as well as taking notes during lectures. My teachers often use Word for creating a syllabus, course calendar, or assignment instructions. This program has become the base for sharing written material electronically in the classroom.

Copyrighted and fair use materials continually appear in classrooms for me. Professors use both written and digital copyrighted material at their discretion to improve student learning. I had a professor last semester upload a chapter of a textbook to blackboard as a part of our assigned readings for his class. I have another professor who showed clips of documentaries in class to help us understand artistic concepts. Students will use copyrighted material in their own works and it is never too early to teach them about citing work that is not their own, even if they are using it for their own research purposes. As the students get older, a teacher can go more in depth into copyright ideas, intellectual property, and profit versus non for profit organizations. As a teacher, you can incorporate copyrighted material into instructional materials under fair use. Some considerations need to be made though including the necessity of the material for leaving versus entertainment, the necessity of the amount of the source (which often can reduce a material to clips or excerpts rather than the whole work), attributing copyrighted material when used, and meet professional standards of curriculum development.

The first implementation issue proposed in the textbook is academic honesty. This is one of the most important issues that needs a solutions in the classroom because it sets students up creating unique thought but also the underlying importance of crediting others for their work. As a solution in my classroom I would verbally go over the schools academic honesty policy and have them sign a document saying they would uphold this policy. I would also teach my students one of the citation methods so they would know how to properly give credit to someone's intellectual property within their own work. I would also use one of the plagiarism check sites such as Turnitin.com when students turn in papers to check for plagiarism in their work.

Another implementation issue is privacy. I would want students to be able to feel a sense of security in the classroom when it comes to their grades and personal information. I would want to go over the characteristics of a good password with my students to help them maintain privacy online. I also would post students grades to their accounts individually to help maintain academic privacy of their grades.

The last implementation issue is cyber bullying. This issue is very important to propose a solution to because of its prevalence in the current school climate. I would go over with my students the districts policies on bullying and cyber bullying. I would also describe the negative effects that this behavior can have on someone and offer students a safe environment where they can discuss with me any problems they are having with this issue. I think also sharing testimonials or video clips from victims of cyber bullying could be helpful because it can show the real life implications that this behavior can have.

#1 technology with students and teachers

Part of becoming a teacher in the 21st century includes a need to technological proficiency. Requirements such as this class at university, technology requirements for licensure, and educational standards that require technological implementation in the classroom all require future and current educators to work with technology in the classroom. Technology can also enhance the planning and implematation of lesssons, helping to lighten the load of teachers. Online tools are available to help streamline administrative tasks and websites are available to help with lesson plan organization and development. Students may use technology in the classroom as an extension of their everyday lives and to help learning development. Technology can be used to reinforce learning in the classroom by building upon knowledge and skills taught to them. It can be used to provide individualized checks on learning progress in situations where teachers may not have time to work one on one with students to check their understanding of material. The great amount of diversity in the classroom influences the students need for technology. Students with different learning styles may be presented material in different ways to help maximize their understanding. Students with disabilities may also help find technology helpful for their learning and many accomadations may be made to help them use technology as well.

The ISTE standards are a set of guidelines developed to create skills and qualities in students that will equip them to work in a technological world, and for teachers to ensure professional competency with technology and to positively influence students relationships with it. The standard that I liked the most was "Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and the opportunities of living, leaning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical." I really enjoyed seeing this standard on there because I think students tend to overlook the impact that their online usage can have on other people. The internet can tend of have a sense of annonymty and I think it is important for students to learn to behave in an ethical manner when using technology. The standard that I felt the most out of my skill set was "Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working with teams locally and globally." I think it may be possible to have students collaborate locally in the self contained classroom environment but working on a more global scale seems difficult. I am not really sure how to go about moving collaboration to this larger scale and what kind of technology would be most effective in doing so.

Digital native is someone that has grown up with technology being apart of their cveryday life and ineratcions; this includes individuals who may not remember a time without computers or cellphones. I think that this is an appropriate label for today's youth because technology is becoming increasingly engrained in our daily lives and children are beginning to interact with technology at younger ages. Digital natives are also categorized by their fearlessness in trying technology and favor a hands on "try it" approach to learning new forms of technology. I have seen a difference in the way my classmates and teachers would use technology. Teachers often found it more difficult to navigate with technology and would encounter problems that a student may not. In my experience a teacher often asked students for assistance when they were facing technical problems in the classroom. My teachers often stuck to more traditional presentation tools such as PowerPoint, where students tended to be more creative when doing presentations and using different platforms such as Prezi. I am sure the same issues that we faced with our teachers will be relevant when we become teachers ourselves. Our students will be most likely more knowledgeable in new technologies.

#0 Technology Introduction and Learning Styles

     Technology is something that is a part of my everyday life. I feel like I am constantly interacting with some technological platform, whether that be a phone, television, tablet or computer. I have used technology in several of my classes and it has been very helpful on collaborative work or understanding complex topics. I took a class in high school that covered basic Microsoft suite, technological vocabulary, and basic platforms. For the art requirements in my major, I took a digital foundations class that outlined the relationship between art and technology. I got to use some really unfamiliar technologies, including a 3D printer,  and to see how I can incorporate this into my own work. 

     In this class, I would like to find some types of technology that I would be able to use in my own classroom. I think technology is becoming increasingly important for student engagement as well as for their future competency. I would also like to become more proficient in some of the programs that I am currently using. 

     The learning styles chart below detailed my styles in four basic areas. The results state that I am a more active learning, a balanced sensory and intuitive learner, a visual learner, and a global learner. Each of these aspects play an important role in how I obtain information as well as study. I always assumed that I was a more visual learner because of my attraction to art, but I did not realize to the degree of which I was. This is very helpful when I study because developing charts and visual aids are helpful in my study process.