![]() C11.Q2. Privacy is a controversial issue in the Digital Age. Schools have an obligation to ensure student safety, both physical and virtual. When using the Internet or the network, this requires keeping close tabs on student’ activity when they are using computers. Do you think this violates students’ privacy? Justify your opinion and consider both points of view. This particular subject takes on two different meanings when discussing K-12 students versus college students. The book concentrates on the K-12 age group. For this age group the top priority of teachers is to protect the children from harmful influences online, be it images, people, or websites requesting personal information. In 2012 the Children’s Internet Protection Act was amended to include the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act. This amendment makes it a requirement for schools to filter the images and websites children are exposed to and to monitor the children’s website activity. It also requires schools to educate the children on appropriate online behavior. Therefore, this age group, by law, have no internet privacy at school! I agree with this law. Just like adults, a child can stumble upon inappropriate material on the internet very easily. These filters and safeguards will not allow this to happen as easily. I remember looking up curse words in the dictionary as an elementary student and getting a good snicker at the definitions found there. Today, a child has a lot more information available to them by doing a simple Google search. Kids will be kids, so I think it is very important to have these filters in place and to monitor the children’s online activities. My attitude toward privacy for college students is completely different. Most college students are at least 18 years old and they are in classes that may have them doing research on topics that we would not think appropriate at a high school level. Therefore, I do not think it is a good idea to filter what types of websites that can be accessed from a college’s library or network. C12.Q3. Of the emerging technology trends presented in the chapter or those you discovered through your research on the Web, which emerging technology or trend do you think will have the most significant impact on education? This chapter was really exciting to read, especially the section on emerging technologies. There were two technologies that caught my attention. I am most excited to see how the electronic paper idea develops over the next few years. As it stated in the book, this technology has potential application wherever a sheet of paper is used in the classroom. As an instructor, I am dreaming of having my fifteen page final exams graded in an instant!It is not practical to have my face-to-face students take exams electronically. I have tablets available to use with these students. However, nineteen tablets can become very cumbersome to transport. Electronic paper will be extremely useful! The other technology that caught my attention was the increase emphasis on learner analytics. The book used the example of Netflix being able to suggest movies to people based on their viewing history to describe what learner analytics could potentially do for academics. By analyzing large amounts of data, educators can determine how students prefer to learn and what learning strategies have been successful over large populations of students. This will allow educators to use targeted instruction for their students. This chapter discussed many other technologies that are equally interesting, however I do not think they will have as big of an impact on the classroom as the two discussed above. My Project 10 links can be found below:
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7/25/2016 02:27:22 pm
I couldn't access your Scoop.it and the Thinglink had no links.
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Mary
7/26/2016 10:33:20 am
I have fixed the Scoop.It link and the ThingLink did have links. They are in the lower right hand corner of the image.
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Demetric DyAnn Williams
7/25/2016 03:51:41 pm
Hi Mary:
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Mary
7/26/2016 10:35:10 am
That is scary. I suppose, where there is a will, there is a way! I have three young children and I appreciate the schools taking the initiative to filter the content coming into the schools.
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