Chapter eleven discussed issues pertaining to the ‘digital divide’. The digital divide is essentially all of the bureaucratic red tape issues that come with technology such as copy write issues. This chapter also addressed topics like privacy of students and their work, the proper use of technology by students, and plagiarism.
I suppose I never really realized it until the book pointed it out, the teacher is responsible for insuring that the students use the technology properly. The proper use of technology is just as important to know as knowing how to take care of your textbooks.
I cannot say that I have an experience with modern technology and plagiarism, but I do remember when it was first addressed with me. I was in third grade and we all had to do a report on an inventor. The inventor I had chosen was Thomas Edison. The class went down to the library and got books on our inventor of choice. This was the first time I had to do an actual report and I was seriously concerned about doing it. I did not know how to take notes or how to organize anything so I did the only thing I could think of: memorize the book word for word. Of course, to my third grade mind, this was brilliant! I thought this report would be easy because I remembered the book, I could just re-write it. Then when my teacher saw it, she first congratulated me on memorizing the book but then told me that what I had done was called plagiarism and was illegal. She told me that I would get arrested for taking someone else’s work. Needless to say, I never plagiarized again!
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