EME 2040

I have used Microsoft Word to do a number of papers and essays all throughout middle and high school as well as college. This program makes it very easy to organize and write papers and has many applications to include into projects.             Regarding copyright, as students we mostly just have to make sure the sources are cited. Teachers have to follow these rules also when taking information for lessons and need to include sources. This includes: videos, clips, clip art, cartoons, articles, pictures, and much more.              With the legal issues, teachers could be taught how to properly cite so they can use those sources in technology. The social issues that come with technology, like cyberbullying and security could be easily solved with frequent monitoring of the technology that the kids are using in order to prevent this. Regarding the ethical issues, the teachers...

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       Technology encourages students and teachers to expand their knowledge and curiosity. Technology allows access to any information in seconds. The easy access to information also sets high standards for teachers and students and pushes them to do better.        A standard that is meaningful to me is knowledge constructor and making a meaningful learning experience. A standard that seems outside my skill level is computational thinker and being able to solve technological problems.        I agree that today's youth is considered a digital native, youth today can't imagine a world without technology and having access to anything in a matter of seconds. Some of my older teachers would be considered digital immigrant, and have trouble doing easy applications. Due to this, some of my classes didn't use any technology in classrooms and was more inefficient because of it. My future students will most likely be much more advance...

      My previous experiences using technology have been just doing the everyday things. I only know how to do fairly basic concepts on a computer. In high school, I took a computer class using, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, but that was many years ago and I didn't use them regularly so many skills were lost. I am more comfortable using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint than I am using Excel.       I hope to learn how to be more comfortable using computers and more programs. I hope to learn how to solve some basic problems when the computer isn't working quite right. I hope this class will teach me skills that I can use in the future and be more proficient.          I learned that I am a very visual learner. Graphs, charts, and pictures really help me to understand the material. It is also helpful for me to be shown step by step what to do instead of being told what to do, I strugg...