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Throughout my high school career, Microsoft Word was essentially the holy grail of all things school-work related. Writing requirements were a part of the curriculum in every class at my high school, including math and science, so all of my teachers were very fond of this easy-to-access program that kept us all conveniently identical in the software we used. Therefore, I was always using MS Word for a variety of assignments, essays, short answer responses, short store, etc. Additionally, it was the go-to for lectures and sent-out information that all of my teachers used.
One specific program that I was involved in while in high school was the Capstone program, which consisted of 2 classes (one per year) that were specifically geared towards research projects and research papers. Our topic (personally chosen) had to have extensive amounts of information about them. So whether it had been images, tables, or quotes from various sources, copyrights were a topic that we were all taught well about in order to have the most accurate and presentable research assignments possible. As a teacher, I do not plan to allow much of the use of copyrighted material. Unless in essays where using facts from reliable sources, I feel that allowing the use of other source material as long as it is accredited will limit the creative mind. It requires less work and imagination to just google material to use, so I plan on making my student's do more of their own personal creative thinking and assignments. Additionally, limiting the acceptance of copyrighted material will decrease the possibility of copyright issues or plagiarism, which is quite possible to occur unintentionally but could still ruin a student's grade or career.
As previously stated, strongly limiting the use of copyrighted material to avoid complications in proper accreditations, would solve (or provide a slight solution) to a legal issue when implementing the use of technology in the classroom. Social issues such as cyberbullying could potentially be avoided by only limiting software usage to programs where students would not be able to interact unless in he classroom where they are monitored by the teacher, myself. Also, any discussion boards or open response programs (google docs) would include myself as a way to review and monitor responses or statements being made. For privacy concerns, I would do extensive research to ensure that programs or software that I required the use of would be as vague as possible with the personal information it would require, hoping to only need as much to know who was who for grading an access purposes.
One specific program that I was involved in while in high school was the Capstone program, which consisted of 2 classes (one per year) that were specifically geared towards research projects and research papers. Our topic (personally chosen) had to have extensive amounts of information about them. So whether it had been images, tables, or quotes from various sources, copyrights were a topic that we were all taught well about in order to have the most accurate and presentable research assignments possible. As a teacher, I do not plan to allow much of the use of copyrighted material. Unless in essays where using facts from reliable sources, I feel that allowing the use of other source material as long as it is accredited will limit the creative mind. It requires less work and imagination to just google material to use, so I plan on making my student's do more of their own personal creative thinking and assignments. Additionally, limiting the acceptance of copyrighted material will decrease the possibility of copyright issues or plagiarism, which is quite possible to occur unintentionally but could still ruin a student's grade or career.
As previously stated, strongly limiting the use of copyrighted material to avoid complications in proper accreditations, would solve (or provide a slight solution) to a legal issue when implementing the use of technology in the classroom. Social issues such as cyberbullying could potentially be avoided by only limiting software usage to programs where students would not be able to interact unless in he classroom where they are monitored by the teacher, myself. Also, any discussion boards or open response programs (google docs) would include myself as a way to review and monitor responses or statements being made. For privacy concerns, I would do extensive research to ensure that programs or software that I required the use of would be as vague as possible with the personal information it would require, hoping to only need as much to know who was who for grading an access purposes.
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