Ethical Uses of Technology

It is important as a teacher to model and inform about the ethical uses of technology.  As the standard of NETS-T states that a teacher must promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility, this means that children must understand the ethical uses of technology.  The turnitin assignment showed a bit of what this means.  We were able to see how a report can be detected for being plagarised.   Plagarism is a huge deal especially in the education.  Teacher's strictly enforce this rule and clearly emphasize the importance of not plagarising reports and projects and such.  Technology makes the impossible, possible and gives a extremely wide range of access to many resources.  But, there are laws out there that teachers and students and everyone must be aware of.  These are the copyright laws and fair use laws that allow or prevent the use of information, images, or sound from a source.  All projects and reports that are done in school must be carefully completed following these laws to keep from plagarising.   For example, even if a child had used a resource for the information and typed the report in their own words, that student would have to make sure to give credit to that source.  Something that I found interesting and learned was that because of fair use laws a teacher can use a certain amount or minimum of images or sound from a source and not have to get permission from the source.