Journal+3

Module Reflection #3

Reflect on what you plan to do to address the equity and ethics issues when applying technologies. You may share with us about what you have been doing by addressing these aspects and what you will change after learning in this module.

 Description: This week I learned about what I legal can and cannot do when it comes to ethical and legal use of technology in the classroom. The most eye opening experience I had this week was when I learned about all the requirements when It comes to using copyright material.

Impact Throughout all the reading I gained an appreciation for the man who runs the technology at my school. He saves us from creating multiple legal violations. We are blocked from downloading any program on our computers without an administrator logged in. I always found this to be a problem but after reading about the trouble I could be in depending on the wordage of the software (that I never bothered to read, just would click I agree) I appreciate the protection. I also realized I need to go back through any power point presentation I give, and I need to add the credentials to any “borrowed” information I used, like pictures and video clips. I am also going to have to bring it to the schools attention that we are not allowed to show movies as incentives. The middle school has quarterly incentives for the Honor Roll and Merit Roll students. One quarter is a G rated movie in the gym. After learning about legal and ethical technology use, I feel it is my obligation to inform administration that although the students enjoy this incentive, we are not allowed to do it. I also need to look in to showing movies on the bus to DC. It’s not really an incentive, but some of the movies have no educational value linkage.

Intent My intent after my learning this week is to go through all my handouts before each new quarter and revamp them to “legal” status. I am going to start this summer reviewing the first quarter material and any power point presentation or handout that includes pictures or graphs without including the proper citation, I will either locate the citations or replace the images/material with citable sources. I also think this would be a perfect presentation for a professional development day, and will recommend that to administration.