Week #10 - Sexting

Education start at home so it is important that parents get informed about the problems young people faced every day that can affect their lives and their education. This can be possible if more programs on the radio and TV programs, newspapers and magazine articles are available to parents. If parents have that knowledge, when the child reaches the adolescent years, the parent will be ready to guide and help the student in how to use technology in a safe way. For that reason, I do not believe is the schools responsibility to teach how to use technology in a safe way, however, I do believe that if technology is going to be use in the classroom, that teachers should pay attention on what the student is using and how he or she is using it.  Nevertheless, I think that values, respect and discipline should be taught at home and in the school system.  

Week #9 - Fair use

It is unbelievable to see how many laws exist after reading the different articles about copyright.  I think those laws are very important.

Different laws exist to protect the work that will be use in school and in different educational purposes. There are four factors that help the courts define what a fair use is:

·       The purpose of the use

·       The nature of the work

·       The amount of work used in relation to the work as a whole

·       The effect of the use on the market or potential income for the work

All four factors have to be taken into consideration in order to determine if it is fair or not fair use to use specific articles, video types, copies, etc.

I think that this information is necessary as a part of the curriculum on middle and high school.  It should be available to everybody. Unfortunately I heard about it when I started to study my major in industrial design.

Week #8 - Technology Integration Matrix

The activity that I chose is for 3^rd grade, and is called Lungs-Individual and Community Choices. It is one to one access and is placed in the intersection of constructive learning and entry level.

In this activity, the teacher teaches the students how our lungs are an important part the human body, and at the same time, the way that lungs can be damaged because of different factors or exposures. According to the teacher in this activity, technology is a very effective tool when creating in a lesson plan. With technology, students can interact, play and research in a very interesting way. For this class, the website brainpop.com was their tool towards learning. This program helps teachers in different subjects such as science, social studies, math, engineering, technology, health, arts and music. This website is very interactive and catchy; it calls the attention of any user. The teacher also used Google to show the students more realistic pictures about the lesson.  

This lesson has the following Nets teacher standards:

1.     Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity

a.     Promote, support and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness.

b.     Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources.

c.      Promote students reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.

2.     Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experience and Assessments

a.     Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.

b.     Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.

c.      Customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

d.      Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.

When I started to do this assignment, and I start to read and check each activity, I was really impress of all the technology tools that we, prospective teachers and the now teachers have to teach students in a fun way. Today there isn’t an excuse to create a boring or a monotony class. There is help for each grade level class which makes this technology tool a great strategy to develop lesson plans. I will continue working and practicing to be better using this technology After everything I learned during class this semester, I could say that I am between adaption and infusion level. I know that the teachers have to be moving forward in order to reach their goals. Today’s society demand innovate teaching, and I am confident that one day I will be fulfilling each demand of this world of technology.