Standards and More Standards Knowing the standards will help me become a better teacher. I want to integrate a variety of technologies into my lessons, and knowing the technology standards for teachers and students will help me do this. The Ohio standards seem to be more detailed and cover a wider area of technology use and how it impacts the world, but the ISTE standards are also helpful by giving more concise standards on which that teachers and students should focus. The administrator standards were interesting because I am just now seeing these come into use in the high school where I work. Principals seem to be the slowest on adjusting to this new technological world, but at least they are starting to come on boards. In the future I would like to take some professional development to help me further understand these standards and how to more efficiently integrate them into my future classroom. As a history teacher, I want to show my kids what an important impact technology has had on the world, but that we need to be careful. While the Luddites may have been over reacting in a number of ways, they still had many valid points about the dangers of technology. I want to use technology in many ways in my class, but I want it to have a purpose, and the standards help to give me that purpose. Ethics and Copyright Netiquette and copyright laws are two major parts of technology ethics. I have learned that if you know how to act in a proper and responsible way in your every day life, than that is the way you should behave when you are using technology. The number one thing that stood out for me when I was reading about netiquette, beside the cool new term, is that you need to remember that you are interacting with other people when you are online. We need to teach this to kids. It is way to easy to bully someone you are not face to face with. Cyber bullying has become a huge problem and we need to address this with our students. We also need to teach them that they must represent themselves well online at all times. It is too easy to post things and forget they are there. Teachers and students need to be careful with the words and images that will be forever associated with their names. Copyright laws are also something that I need to be more aware of when I am a teacher. It is very easy to find and use things from the internet. I need to be more aware and give others credit for their work. I also need to make my students aware of this as well.
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Michelle Nolte
3/3/2014 03:08:02 am
Great Job! I liked your Star Wars video!! Leave a Reply. |