Week 7

This week really touched on some good topics. I think it is really important to discuss negatives of technology. It is really easy for me to get so caught up in all the positive that I forget that there can be negative impacts. I think the start to fixing these negative impacts is teachers being educated and knowledgeable about technology. I think that teachers as well as parents need to try to be as knowledgeable about technology as kids. Adults need to be able to help kids navigate appropriate uses of technology. We need to be teaching students from a young age about internet safety and trying to prevent cyber bullying. I believe if you are going to let students use technology in your classroom then you are responsible for those students behavior and monitoring them. I think there are still a lot of issues out there with technology and before this class I thought it was more simple and that technology was all positive. Through this class my eyes have been opened to potential problems with using more and more technology in schools.