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Power Practices are hyperlinked PowerPoint slides that will provide you an interactive way to review chapter content.
Hyperlinked presentations are easy to create and simple to use. With PowerPoint or other presentation software, you too can create customized self-paced practice experiences for your students.
Try the PowerPoint Skills Builder exercise, PowerPoint Flash Cards, to learn to create your own reviews.
Copyright refers to the laws that protect the interests of those who own creative works. Fair use guidelines offer strict rules for the use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes.
The Act was passed in 1998 to protect children’s privacy when using the Internet. Children’s rights to privacy were not being sufficiently protected. Information such as their names, addresses, pictures, and work should not be made public.
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What is the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and why was it necessary?
Acceptable use refers to policies that ensure the use of technology in a manner that protects students from inappropriate behaviors and information when using technology.
A teacher should explain his or her expectations on using technology. A teacher may also want students and their parents to sign a Code of Ethics for computer use. A teacher should also review the school or district policies on acceptable use with their students.
Software piracy refers to copying software to share with others or installing software on multiple machines when only one legal copy was purchased. This is a violation of copyright and is a form of stealing.
The Digital Divide is the potential separation between those who have access to technology and those who do not. The gap occurs along socio-economic lines as well as along ethnic, gender, and education lines. It means that some students have much less opportunity to use technology than others.
The Federal Commerce Commission established a discounted cost for telecommunications service for community access centers. This is called the e-rate. It helps make technology more accessible to all people.
How does the e-rate help bridge the digital divide?
Freedom of Speech or the extent of your right to express views on the Internet; Privacy or your right to be free from control and monitoring when using the Net; and Academic Dishonesty or the use of Internet sites and electronic data to cheat when preparing academic work.
What three ethical issues have emerged in the Digital Age?
Virtual environments are fully rendered environments in which the user becomes immersed in the system. With this emerging technology, students will be able to virtually visit and interact with places that would be otherwise impossible for them to go.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to programs that work like the human brain and can learn to adapt to the user’s needs. Such programs have the potential to automatically adjust themselves to the individual learner.
Wireless connectivity refers to the ability to connect computers in networks without the use of physical wiring. In schools it would change how networks are created making them cheaper, more flexible, accessible from anywhere, and able to use all types of computers from notebooks to handhelds. NextLast
What is wireless connectivity and how is it useful in schools?
Convergence is the blending of technologies into a single multipurpose technology. For schools, convergence will enable districts to buy more technology for the same cost; spend less time on training; and support many technologies. It will mean technology becomes easier to use.
With new technologies emerging that make it possible to interact from anywhere and at any time, instruction will be less confined to prescheduled times within the classroom walls. Decentralized instruction make it possible for learning communities to gather any time and any where.
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How might emerging technologies decentralize instruction?
