week 15 article

Week 15

MySpace enforcer patrols virtual streets to keep kids safe

I think it is great that Myspace is being monitored but I can’t imagine how hard of a job it must be. To me, it seems impossible to “control” the internet and especially Myspace. I have heard the messages discussed in the article that end with “if you wouldn’t say it in person, don’t say it online. I’m not sure how the bullying on my space interacts with education. There are so many things that educators are responsible for, and I think there is a fine line as to what we have the right to interfere in. I think it is difficult to justify interfering in what students do on their home computers, however, when the comments from online enter the classroom and school setting, I think that’s when the situation becomes our right to get involved with. Personally, I think students should have to read aloud their comments to their parents and that would probably end most of it.


If wired right, computers do belong in classrooms

This article was very interesting! I never thought that evaluating educational technology programs was a formal topic and that the government would get involved. I agree that it should be evaluated, however, I thought that mainly private companies, principles and especially classroom teachers were the ones evaluating the programs. I assumed the process was nearly identical to the process for evaluating books. I thought that while companies evaluated the technology programs before they went out onto the market, once there, it was primarily the responsibility of the district and teachers.