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Introducing Digital Dossier to the Classroom

This video completely shocked me! I never knew that there was something as extensive as a digital dossier to tract your history online. This video does a great job of showing that you are always being watched with you internet activity. I always knew that the internet was not private but I this video really put it into prospective. In the article What's in Your Digital Dossier? it talks about how to introduce digital dossier to students. I agree with this article saying how it is very important have students aware of their actions on the internet at a young age, but I also think that along with showing them what not to do you have to show them how to build a positive image on the internet. This could be done by having them do blog posts for homework like we do in this class and also with your classroom website display what they have accomplished in the classroom.

Future and the Arts

In the video No Future Left Behind, students talk about the future and how teachers are not allowing it in their classrooms. The part of this video that impacted me the most i would say was the part where the students say no more tests. Also that school should be "like a game" and if they get the answers wrong they should be able to correct them. I believe the main mission of this video was to show that the future is much more arts related. Ideas should be able to be expressed through things like; dance, music, building, acting, photography, programing, and painting. The students are asking for the future to be embraced in the classroom because this is the only part of their life that it is being held back in, where this should be the place where it is the most encouraged.

For this to happen several things need to change. For one schools need to have more trust in their students. They need to be allowed free speech and less restrictions with electronics in the classroom. The students see this as their teachers not trusting them which should be seen as a failure. The future needs to be accepted in the classroom so that our students are ready for the outside world.

Determining a Line of Privacy

In response to the Article in BBC News, US School Accused of Web Spying, I feel that this lawsuit over computers cameras turning off if the computer is stolen is not something that is a black and white topic. Having grown up in a family of teachers and administrators I have seen my fair share of accusations. Having a camera on a computer that someone else has control if it is activated with the owner having no knowledge of is not right I believe this. However, on the other side of this argument this school district has spend an immense amount of money on these computers for every student in their school district. If I had bought all of these computers I would want to have a strategy on how to get them back if they were taken.

This school has taken the right action in deactivating these computers of this program as of now and said that they will make sure to have consent from here on out. I feel that this is the right step, they needed to admit that they made a mistake and take proper precautions so that this cannot happen again. Although suing the school is not the best option. These schools are here for these children's best interest and to punish them for trying to do a positive thing in their school district is a terrible decision.