This week on Driving Questions, Kevin and his guest Kay Tibbs discuss issues such as over filtering in school networks as well as its effect on us educators preparing students. Like some previous podcasts, the situation that is coming up is the ability to properly teach the students about being responsible with their resources and technology. Kevin makes a valid point that many people are so worried about moving forward to quickly in teaching students about new technologies that we are actually moving to slow, and the students who are there now need to have us along side them as mentors, otherwise they are learning and dealing with all these new things on their own. Another huge issue in dealing with students and new technology that I have touched base on before is copyrighting and plagiarism. Many students do break copyright laws unknowingly, or will plagiarize someone's work because they don't understand how serious of a problem it can be for them. We as educators need to have a very strong knowledge of these and must be able to teach them the proper ways to use information that they find on the web.
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