Reflection on searches and social networking

In your second reflectionreflect on how can technology support student understanding and building of knowledge? Explain what types of products do you feel can inspire creativity and innovation?

I think I already talked about this in my first post to this blog. What I had written was as follows:

I am concerned that while the young people have mastered the technology of this age, they have forgotten the responsibility and the dangers that go along with it. Just recently another teacher was suspended for postings on Facebook. And these postings don't even have to be your own. A response or a comment from a facebook friend could get one in trouble. My friend who is an administrator in Napa spoke to me recently about the trouble they are experiencing with "sexting" and students. Some of the kids have even been charged with felony child pornography for sexting. And so, while having these abilities are nice, there is a very frightening potential for very serious misuse. And that has been probably true for every human innovation: the potential for positive human advancement or the potential for negative human interactions.

It seems schools and society in general (digitally savvy or not) must instill in young people certain moral standards that every generation has needed, albeit the Stone Age or the 21st century.

So basically a student needs to know the basics of how a computer functions... keyboarding, cutting/pasting, saving, etc. He also needs instruction on manuevering his way around the 'Net and the 'Netiquette needed for appropriate inaction with others on the Internet, websites, what have you. This is in addition to what I touched on in an earlier post.