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2. Microsoft Word

          As a digital native I have been in contact with many different digital resources. Many of these uses have been used for personal use as well as school. One application/resource that I frequent the most is Microsoft Word. I believe I have been using Microsoft Word since middle school. Word has been the top resource for me when it has come to type papers. In my history not only is word used to type papers, but, it is also available to create charts and graphs. My teachers have also used Microsoft word to type up information, such as instructions, to distribute to students.
            Early in my writing experience using Microsoft, I was taught about plagiarism. My teacher expressed that we could not copy something verbatim from the internet. She explained that the point of our assignments is to see how we use the information we found and gathered, not to find someone else’s and take it for our own. As a teacher, I would deal with these concepts by teaching students the importance of critical thinking and sharing your own ideas.
            In today’s digital age, we deal with many issues that stem from the accessibility of technology, as well as, the internet. One issue that is very big today is cyberbullying. Students go online and say hurtful and disrespectful things that more than likely would not say face to face. To solve this issue in my classroom, I would have a zero-tolerance for bullying rule whether it is verbal or cyber. From day one, I would enforce respect in my classroom. By enforcing respect all students should treat each other the way they would want to be treated. I believe that having a respectful community will decrease the likeliness of cyberbullying. However, if all my efforts do not work and students participate in cyberbullying then they will lose their computer access.
             Other issues that go hand in hand that affect our world today is, copyright and academic honesty. With technology, students have all the information that they need at their fingertips. This causes students to easily look up an answer from another source rather than putting in the work themselves. In order to solve these problems, I will teach my students how to paraphrase and cite their sources. I believe teaching students how to paraphrase and cite will solve the problem of academic honesty and copyright. Paraphrasing and citing will solve copyright issues because instead of taking someone else’s words, the students will be forced to rewrite it in their own. I believe citing will solve this issue of academic honesty by allowing students to state where they got the information they found. Along with citing I will also implement the use of turn it in, so I correctly check my students’ work and honesty.

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