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When I am the teacher, I will consider students to be very open and positive to what they will search for on the Internet. But I will stay cautioned of what they will search for because if they search for something that comes up to be inappropriate, it will not make a good impression on them or myself. Teachers should be able to control what the students search on the Internet and not make it up for the younger students to do what they want on the Internet. It is important for teachers to tell what the students should search for and walk around the classroom to make sure that a student is not going on the website that they are not supposed to. I think that it is up to the teacher's responsibility if they are letting their students on the Internet, and searching up for information.
I will say that it will be a positive thing, because when younger students are researching on the Internet they can learn more things, and know what the Internet is like. It is easier to learn at an earlier age how to use the computer and utilize the Internet because when the students are older they can be able to search more efficiently and will not struggle with what not to search up on the internet.
The policies that I am aware at schools are blockers and how teachers can set up a system for themselves to see what students are doing on their computers. When I was in elementary, middle, and high school, anything that I searched up on the internet the school will know and my teachers, instead of walking around class, had a system to look at what the students are doing on the internet. Even though, students think that the policies are strict because they invade their privacy; it is important to know that these policies are secure to keep the students safe searching on the internet.
Some good solutions to this topic is an article that I found in Education Week. Even though it's a a little bit outdated, it presents good information on how to show and teach younger students how to effectively search the internet, for example, smart searching, and how educators can evaluate websites before letting their students access. Thank you for reading my blog and I hope that you will learn from reading my blog!
Hi!, My name is Kimberly Lu and I am an Early Childhood and Special Education Major at Lebanon Valley College. I am a freshman. The reason why I chose this major is that I love to teach, help others, and to be around people especially little children. I always want to see others smile when they accomplish a new lesson, and to be around when they want help. With little children, they always make me smile, and always brighten up my day. When I complete my four years in LVC, I hope to have a classroom that has an educational atmosphere, and a place where others feel welcome.
When I decided what platform to use as my blog, I had to do research and testing on what blog would be comfortable for me to use. I also wanted it to make a blog that would stay for my four years in LVC, and continue on into my teaching career. First, I went on Weebly and found that they had nice designs, but since I've never used it so it was a little bit hard for me to use. I had trouble connecting my URL address into the class page. But, when I found blogger, I can connect my Google account address into my blogger account. As I navigated around the website, I saw that there were many options to choose from, for example, like the background, and color. Overall, Blogger was not complicated to use because, it was simplistic just how I wanted it to be. I think that if I had a classroom I will use blogger because it will be easier for the students to navigate through my blogs.
I've never blogged before, so this is the first time I am blogging. I wanted to make a blog that expresses my personality. My definition of blogging is to speak out my thoughts, but it will take me a while to get used to it because I am a little bit quiet and shy to speak how I feel. But this is a good thing to learn because once I get on into my teaching career, I need to overcome these obstacles. So it is important for me to write how I feel because it will benefit others who read my blog. I want to do the same thing while reading other teacher's blogs. I want to connect my experience to their experience, and I think if I read blogs I can learn new things.
The benefits of this blog is to be able to learn what blogging is all about, and to be able to implement it into my future classroom. Sometimes, I can post news about how the week is going, class field trip, activities that the class is involved in, and the schedule, lessons and homework then I can blog about it. I think blogging will be handy because if I want to blog about the schedule for the upcoming week, I don't have to waste paper copying the schedule. I think it will give parents updates about if I change the class schedule, Since people don't look at paper that much, it will be easier to post it on a blog.
Overall, I think that blogging is a good opportunity for others to know who I am. Even though I've never blogged before, it will be a good thing to learn and appreciate about!
Thank you for reading my blog!
