Chapter 11

Chapter 11 was about using technology in classrooms. In the beginning of the chapter it talks about strategic planning that schools have to do because of the costs of technology in this day and age. At the high school I attended I saw how our school had to plan to make technology work. We had some very outdated computer labs and a couple updated ones. We also had a couple of classrooms that got smartboards or projectors to use and were considered smart classrooms. So our school was slowly making changes to implement technology and they had a strategic plan.
The Chapter then goes on to talk about Legal issues in the digital age. I didn't know there were that many different legal issues. But, I guess it makes sense since we have so much more access to everything. I liked the fair use guidelines chart on page 401. It made it easier for me to understand what fair use guidelines were.
The chapter also talked about privacy on technology. As a teacher you have to make sure you are protecting your students privacy. You also have to make sure that you are following the school districts polocies. Also, you would want to make sure you are protecting the pictures of students and all of their information.
The academic dishonesty part of the chapter is something that I found interesting and it was definitely something that I could kind of relate to. I have heard of friends going to websites and getting papers that another student had wrote and turning it in in high school instead of doing it themselves. This is probably a big problem at a lot of schools that don't have antiplagiarism software because I know of a lot of people that have done this or tried to do this.
At the end of the chapter it talked about how the role of a teacher is changing because of all of the changing technology and how technology is being incorporated into all of the students lessons. There are the NETS standards that we all know about. Technology is going to play a large part in our teaching careers.