Module3+reflection

==//Reflection Prompt Module 3: Reflect on what you plan to do to address the equity and ethics issues when applying technologies. You may share with us about what you have been doing by addressing these aspects and what you will change after learning in this module. //==

Description:
Through these two weeks, I read chapter two in TPCK handbook, which is about TPCK for equity of access to technology, chapter 6 in Technology Facilitation and Leadership Book, which is about Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human Issues, some articles and case study that was very useful.

Impact:
My information about the equity and ethics issues was limited. Reading these stuff helped me very much in understanding the legal, ethical, privacy and healthy issues. Also, it helps me to develop my knowledge in these issues and at the same time improve my thinking about some issues that I thought it is not a part from the copyright issues.  When I was a student, I haven’t known the legal and illegal issues until I entered the college. Even in my college what I have known about the copyright that I should not copy any texts from the Internet but they didn’t say anything about the images. They didn’t give a big attention to the copyright issues, they just have warned us to not violate the copyright by copying someone else work without showing us the importance of following the copyrights rules and the punishments. When I have become a student teacher, a teacher from the school that I have worked in it told me that I should to cite the resources of the images that I will use in my lesson. Then, when I came to America, I have heard about that I should take the permission from the owners if I will use any images from the Internet that is really surprised me and encourages me at the same time to look for this information in the Internet. After that, I have read about the fair use in the Internet that allows the teachers to use the images in the sake of the teaching without taking the permission of the owners. At this point, I have reached to the satisfactory solution that will facilitate getting the images legally.

The case study opens my eyes on many issues about legal, ethical, privacy, security and healthy issues. Analyzing the case study and reading the posts of others helped me to focus on some issues that I thought it is legal.

Intend:
I intend to help the other teachers to know what the copyright rules are, why we should follow them and what the punishments are if we violate them. Then, we will work together to educate our students about the copyright rules. I think following the copyright rules should start with the teachers then with the students if we want the students to learn about that quickly because the students will be affected by their teachers’ behavior, so if we fix the teachers, we will fix the students easily.