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Education Students About Technology and Appropriate Useage

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Education Students About Technology and Appropriate Useage

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PLAGIARISM

Students must be educated not only how to use technology, but how to use it appropriately for assignments. One of the biggest challenges regarding school assignment is plagiarism. Students do not inherently know what plagiarism is and how to avoid it, they must be taught. Teachers should not be threatening their classes, they should be instructing them. Lessons should include how to find reliable information, how to cite information appropriately, and how to summarize. Many students will just type topics into Google and click on the first link as their "research." They need to be taught how to scan sources for quality information, how to use advanced search functions, and where to find reliable databases. Students need education in guidance in order to cite their sources correctly, both in text and on a works cited. Finally, students must learn how to summarize, not only putting in into their own words, but also only including the main ideas and not the "fluff"

CONDUCT AND CONSEQUENCES

Social media brings a whole new set of challenges when it come to appropriate usage of technology. In middle schools. students do not see how their behaviors online can impact them as well as their peers and end with serious consequences. Many adolescents do not fully understand that what they post online is often public domain and year from now can still come back and harm them. They need to be taught and shown how social media can be a form of bullying, and that in severe cases has resulted in suicides and acts of violence. It needs to be explained that photos showing nudity and/or illegal behavior will be out there forever, even if deleted and can often result in consequences with the law, at school, and even in future job aspects. The study included in article 36 presents data gathered from anonymous surveys completed by middle school students. I feel that some of the data points are skewed by the students lack of knowledge about inappropriate conduct and behavior on social networking sites. Middle school students need to learn that what they say behind the "walls" of the internet, can still have severe consequences.

http://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/

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Snippets taken from an interview with Karen Cator, the director of the Office of Educational Technology

The whole classroom is a learning environment with technology being part of the infrastructure, a natural part of the classroom

"Engagement meter" - not a focus on entertainment, but rather on brain activity

Online learning was more isolated than technology used in the classroom. As times changes, we need to integrate the two.

Access is basic necessity for all learners. Changes need to be made in order to provide access for all.

Being technologically literate includes the ability to make decisions about technologies and their uses.

Digital literacy is comprised of three parts: the ability to use information, the ability to use media and digital technology to communicate, the development of digital citizenship.

Still a great deal of research needing to be done in order to implement the national technology plan.

http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010

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Technology education is fueled by three basic questions:

1 - What are the goals of technology education?

"The stated goal of technology is to 'produce students with a more conceptual understanding of technology and it's place in society, who can thus grasp and evaluate new bits of technology that they might never have seen before'. This understanding is called technology literacy." Just as we promote reading literacy in the classroom, students of this generation need to be literate in technology in order to become a contributing member of society. The National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council identify knowledge, critical thinking and decision making, and capabilities as the three keys of technology literacy. As with all academic areas, technology education must follow certain standards which are identified in the Standards for Technological Literacy ITEA.

2 - What should technology education look like in the classroom?

Technology education should be hands-on, minds-on, and action-based. All students should be engaged in critical thinking, decision, making, and problem solving. Students should be assessed in the area of technology education. "The assessments tools should aid technology teachers in checking student understanding and ensuring that students are reaching the desired outcomes."

3 - Why is technology education important

We live in a society where technology has become the main source for information, communication, and socialization. It has been found that society is interested in becoming educated on how to use and understand technology. As technology usage expands in the real world, those trends should carry over into our classrooms.

http://www.iteaconnect.org/TAA/PDFs/xstnd.pdf
http://www.nae.edu/

http://www.nationalacademies.org/nrc/