Journal 2

As a student, I have become very familiar with MS Word over the years. Most testing I did in high school was turned in electronically or typed up and printed out. It even came to the point where I was no longer writing notes but typing them up on MS Word and studying from that. MS Word has become a big part of how teachers and students communicate. Teachers will send out newsletters, or post assignments as MS Word documents for students to pull up on their laptop. This has helped reduce the number of paper used, and even students saying "I lost the paper" because they will always have access to it online. Overall, MS Word is a big part of learning in modern classrooms and in my opinion for the better.

I have a lot of experience with copyright in school. We were always having to run our work through websites to check to make sure everything was correctly cited. Also in art class we were always having to make sure pictures we were using as reference were within the proper copyright. If I was a teacher I think I would deal with copyright by teaching a lesson on it and having a small quiz to make sure that my students completely understand copyright. This is because not following copyright can have very negative effects on them down the road.

I think in the digital world it is very easy to fix academic honesty. By using websites such as turnitin.com teachers are able to have their students' works checked against information out there on the internet, and even work turned in by other students in their class. For cyberbully, I think teaching about it from a young age such as we do bullying in person would help greatly fix the issue. Kids create a separation between themselves and their online actions but if we hold workshops like we do for bullying in person, kids are less likely to put up that divide. Lastly, for copyright, as I mentioned earlier I think teaching kids and testing them on that lesson is the best way to make sure they understand copyright instead of them just figuring it out on their own.




 
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