Assignment 3.3

1. What are the three most important ideas you learned while investigating this topic of cyberbullying?
1. I learned that cyberbullying can be devastating to a child and their classroom performance.
2. How big of an impact the teacher can have on the attitudes of their students. 
3. How vital it is to make yourself as the teacher available to your students and be an open door if they need help. 
2. Why is cyberbullying important to you as a future teacher?
1. To me cyberbullying is important to me as a future teacher because even though I will be working with young kids, they can still feel the emotions that most adults have when they are faces with a situation like this. Kids can feel depression too, and I see it as my job as a future teacher to make sure that my kids have a person that they feel safe coming to with something like this or if they need to help a friend who is being cyberbullied. 
3. What classroom rules can you create to ensure that cyberbullying is not a part of your future classroom?
1. Acknowledge the good behavior and reward it, but also take the time to set repercussions for unwanted behavior. 
2. Keep a place where all electronics have to be placed while the kids are in school so there is no temptation of any sort of communication electronically, whether it is good or bad. 
3. If there is an issue, make it known to the class before hand that you will involve parents in the issues. 
4. Have a board in the classroom that has all of the expectations of what the class should be doing and how they should be acting. 

Assignment 3.1

1. Visit this website: ...http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/copyright-faq
1. What types of works are protected by copyright?
1. Video games and computer software, dramatic works and music, music and lyrics, literary works, and many more. 
2. Visit this website: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/copyright1.html#1
1. Under general guidelines for copyright laws, what are two things that students must do when they use any portions of copyrighted material?
1. The material must be placed in quotation marks and then state who the creator is and where the information is from. 
2. Under general guidelines for copyright laws, what are 5 requirements for educators to claim fair use of copyrighted materials used in any educational productions?
1. For face-to-facee curriculum based instruction
2. Demonstration of how to create multimedia productions
3. Presented at conferences
4. For remote instruction as long as the distribution signal is limited
5. Kept for only 2 years
3. Under general guidelines for copyright laws, when does fair use end?
1. Fair use ends when the multimedia creator loses control of his/her product's use. 

Assignment 8.1

1. Why is it important for teachers to teach students to think critically? 
1. It is important to teach your students how to think critically because it is something that they will have to do everyday as an adult. If they do not learn the skills to think critically while they are young, it will be hard to complete the daily tasks that come with adult life. 
2. What is the difference between spreadsheets and databases?
1. A database is used to store data values and be a tool to compare different tables or charts, where a spreadsheet includes multiple cells and uses equations to fill cells by using the data already presented.
3. What are two ways that spreadsheets are powerful tools?
1. Creating easily edited and easily read information tables.
2. Using equations to quickly create information layouts. 
4. In what way is an electronic database a powerful tool?
1. Having an easily accessible information base that can be compared to other collections of information. 
5. Explain five ways that using spreadsheets or databases can make you more productive as a teacher.
1. Make administrative tasks easier.
2. Provide contextual learning. 
3. Analyze teaching performance. 
4. Promote higher levels of thinking. 
5. Assess student learning. 

Assignment 2.3

1. List each step of the ASSURE model of lesson planning and briefly tell what you as a teacher will need to describe in that part of the lesson. 
1. Analyze learners
1. Understand what types of learners that you have in your classroom.
2. State Objectives
1. Use the verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy and the four components of ABCD, type up objective you want your students to learn. 
3. Select Methods, Media, and Materials
1. Type the methods, materials, media, and other instructional strategies for learners who have disabilities. 
4. Utilize Media and Materials
1. Describe in detail how to prepare for your lesson. make sure to include the methods, media, and materials that will be needed. 
5. Require Learner Participation
1. Include the different ways that your students will participate in your lesson. 
6. Evaluate and Revise
1. Include the areas that you will assess and how the lesson could be changed or improved. 
2. Why are Bloom's taxonomy and key verbs from this taxonomy so important when writing learning objectives? 
1. When you include the verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy into your learning objectives, you will be able to include many of the skills that are needed in the 21st century. The taxonomy of the learning objectives classifies all the levels of learning working from the lowest level (knowledge processing) and working up to the highest level (evaluation.) 

Assignment 2.1

1. Name the four major theories of learning and address the following questions for each theory:
1. Behaviorist Learning Theory 
2. Constructivist Learning Theory 
3. Directed Instruction 
4. Cognitive Learning Theory 
2. Briefly describe at least nine major categories that you should consider when differentiating instruction for different types of learners. Explain how technology could be used to provide some form of differentiated instruction in each of these categories. (Ex:  Learning Style, Intelligence Preference, etc.)
1. Learning Style
1. As a teacher, you can provide different assignments to individual students while they work at a computer station. Each child can do the assignment in their preferred learning style, and use different technologies to do so. 
2. Intelligence Preference
1. Every student has their own intelligence level, so the various levels can be addressed with different technology such as graphs or charts while using the computers. 
3. Gender
1. Although it is not always best to separate learning by gender, in many cases girls tend to like assignments that involve communication. You could give assignments like power point presentations or newsletters. 
4. Culture
1. When teaching, it should be considered that not all students have the same readiness of technology. 
5. ADD/ADHD
1. Students who have either of these have a hard time paying attention and staying on task, so a way to help them would be to get headphones so they can focus on their assignments. 
6. Index of Inclusiveness
1. This section of the reading says that as a teacher, you should include representations of many groups in your presentations. It even suggests pulling from you own classroom. 
7. Universal Design for Learning 
1. This section recommends providing more materials that what the traditional classroom would have. They give an example of having a podcast to listen to to change things up. 
8. Grouping Students
1. Group presentations are a perfect way to integrate technology into the class curriculum. Many cultures other than our own, such as China, Korea, and Japan emphasize group achievement over individual achievement. 
9. Assistive Technologies 
1. In some cases, you will have to adjust for students who have physical disabilities that require them to use assistive technologies. These technologies can include larger fonts, audio, or a larger mouse.