ISTE+Standard+4

=**4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility**=

====Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers: ====

====a. advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources. ====

====b. address the diverse needs of all learners by using learner-centered strategies providing equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources. ====

====d. develop and model cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital-age communication and collaboration tools. ====

=MEDT 7461 Instructional Design=

Annotation: In this project I explored copyright laws, including 'fair use'. I also had the opportunity to examine my own school system's acceptable use policy and critique it.

Reflection: In this copyright project I explored all the copyright regulations that pertain to downloading images and other copyrighted materials from the Internet. I also learned the guidelines for fair use in the realm of education. Before I completed this project I was very unaware of the specific copyright guidelines set by the federal government to protect individuals' creations. This project really opened my eyes to the general, hands-off approach that my school system takes when it comes to an AUP or acceptable use policy. My county does not describe in very many details what is acceptable technology use. I think that my school system is so general that they can pretty much deny any student the right to computer access. This project made me realize the need for a unit on copyright laws in many of the course offerings at my school. I created a quick scavenger hunt to teach acceptable copyright uses.

=MEDT 7462 Internet Tools= Annotation: Here I explored uses for Google Translator to discover how it may be able to assist me with many of my students that speak very little English. Google translate is a very user friendly tool that allows you to type any message in your own language and it will translate it into one of over 50 different languages.

Reflection: This tool can be used in an educational setting in many ways. Google translator can easily help me communicate with parents that do not speak or understand English. There are many students at my school that have parents that speak very little English and therefore this makes it very hard to communicate with their parents. Another way that Google translator can be used could be through communication with students in other countries. I am sure that students in social studies can learn about other cultures by being able to communicate with students from that country. Recently I have used this tool to communicate with a Hispanic student in my class that does not speak very much English. I have been amazed at how much this tool has helped her understand what we are doing in our math 2 class. I have taken worksheets and copied and pasted English text into Google Translator, translated it to Spanish and then created a Spanish version of the same worksheet. Putting an English and Spanish version in front of this student has seemed to help her better understand the concepts we are teaching. Google Translator will even play the audio of most translations.

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