Hello everybody and welcome to Marty's ICT corner. For the first topic, we had to watch a video about digital youth from Mr. Howard Gardner(http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-howard-gardner-video) . I specifically focused on the issues Mr. Gardner talked about. These are the five issues:
· Identity
· Privacy
· Ownership/authorship
· Trustworthiness/credibility
· Participation in community.
They are part of the everyday life and students do not really care about them. We will mostly all going to be future teacher and will have to deal with those issues while using technologies with our students. How can we make sure those won’t be issues in our classroom or environment? We can use the technology but we should put a bigger effort on teaching the students how to properly use it.
I used to be a student that used a lot of technology to write papers in high school. It was easy and only had to change the words and some expression. After that, I had a text of my own. I know it is called plagiarism, but as a teen, do you really think I did care? We have to focus on the benefits that ICT usage can bring when used properly. We will have to deal with ICT's in our everyday classes and have students work with them so let's keep in mind that we have to make sure those issues are discussed in a correct maner.
I am posting an intersting link on the issues. They are explained in a better and more precised maner. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Young_People_Ethics_and_New_Digital_Media.pdf
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