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As a student, I've used MS word countless number of times! Every assignment, project, or essay I am usually using Microsoft word. I learned to use MS word in middle school and started actively using it in high-school when I had assignments to do from there. When I took a intro to technology course in ninth grade, I learned all the gadgets word had and all throughout high-school, it was my main typing application for essays or assignments. For the teachers I've had, almost all have used MS word to create handouts, plan, or have downloads we are required to read. Many of my teachers use word to write down their syllabus or main instructions for the course too.

My experience with copy right and fair use in class was most demonstrated when I started college. In high school I wasn't really taught what photos, documents, or other resources I was using was copyrighted and now in college it's a pretty big deal. I only primarily learned how to cite my sources for certain essays or research papers. Explained mostly in my english courses, my professor would have a list of guidelines we had to follow to ensure we weren't violating copyright. Teaching students early on the fair use guidelines will be the best way to practice what material you can use such as books/novels, newspapers, or magazines, protects any work you may publish.

As I read chapter 11, cyber-bullying stood out as the biggest social implementation issue. As technology is spreading vastly through young children, they are constantly on social media and using text messages to talk to one another. It happens so frequently where one might post about somebody else making them feel down or attacked. Also, as technology use in the classrooms is growing, I think it is so important for the teachers to follow what they have their students do online and report any attack they see right away. Although an ethical issue from chapter 11 was freedom of speech, I think it is important to make sure whatever a student is writing or saying, isn't harmful to another student. Every student should have the ability to say what they please as long as it is relevant to the classroom or topic. Legally, a solution for violating copyright would be to teach students the guidelines and have them practice what is right from what is wrong, how to give the correct credit to the sources they have used. I would also show examples of how to credit a source and how to violate copyright.

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Technology in classrooms is a tool used almost all around the U.S and is vastly growing and improving daily. Teachers are influenced to use technology in the classrooms for multiple reasons. Communication in the classroom and throughout the schools administration is important for a teachers' career. Keeping up with the latest technology makes it easier for a teacher to communicate efficiently to his or her students. There are certain standards teachers are supposed to follow in the digital world and teaching technology is apart of most curriculum and it makes it better when the teacher is following along with the advances. Teaching students with technology allows students to be challenged intellectually and creates an effective way to create student growth in multiple areas. Using smart boards or power-point presentations to teach students keeps them the digital natives they are. Because technology is advancing everyday, it is important for students to learn about these advances because when they are grown up and entering the real world they will be expected to use these technologies in their every day careers.  

The ISTE standards for students are a list of skills expected for a student to learn and understand with technology. I reflect the most on the "Digital Citizen" standard because it explains that students are familiar with the digital world in all the ways that are protected and ethical. When using certain online websites, I ensure that the photos, comments, or language I use is appropriate because I understand that what goes onto the internet never leaves. I make sure to maintain my personal data in a way that is safe and only I can access my own information. I was always taught to never go on risky websites and to frequently erase my computers history in case of any not seen viruses. The skill that isn't in my understanding is the "Computational Thinker." It uses algorithmic thinking to solve abstract models and data analysis. Students formulate different technological methods and I haven't fully learned how to use these skills but I'm interested to study the steps. 

To be a digital native you would have to be born during the time of digital technology and is fully aware of computers and its abilities. I agree with this term for today's youth because as time goes on, technology advances. When I was young half of the technology was not fully advance, therefore I learned as it progressed. Today's youth is first introduced to its latest technology which is as advanced as it gets. I've seen differences between the way teachers (digital immigrants) and students use technology. I believe that since professors were grown up almost never using technology, they have not learned the full content of it. When us students grew up, technology was getting started and that is what we were introduced to and obsessed over. I don't think it impacted my learning experience because the teachers knew what I knew to teach me the material. I think that as technology advances I will be caught up and count on using it with my future students to keep them the digital natives they will be. 

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My prior experiences to technology have been a intro to technology class my freshman year of High-School, which was required. We learned how to use multiple programs on a dell computer, including excel. I was taught how to use power point and made many projects throughout the year with that program. I use technology every day from my mac computer to my cellphone. I'm pretty good at figuring out new technologies but not all of its programs.

 I am hoping to learn about excel and different gadgets on the computer that I have no discovered on my own. I want to become more clear on how to use shortcuts on computer programs and become comfortable using them. I also have never used a blog before, so I want to know all the features of a blog and how to use one more frequently.

What I have learned in the questionnaire results was that for two of the categories I am balanced on two different dimensions of that scale. For the other half of the results I am on one side of the dimension of teaching styles. I prefer a teacher to show and explain steps on how to solve a problem. I am more of a visual learner so I can repeat the steps given and practice frequently. I enjoy learning about facts and realistic ideas rather than theories.