Post 6

Most of the information presented did not surprise me much, since I am growing up in the same day-in-age, want some of the same things/ideas and understand where the students are coming from.  Having this in mind, most of my expectations were met, I didn’t really have any expectations that were far from what I read, and there were even a few points presented that I wouldn’t have thought of to expect.  Reading some of those points didn’t cause any kind of surprise to me.  As I mentioned previously, the answers and points made didn’t really come as a surprise to me for the generation I am part of/growing up around.  If I was conducting the survey, I would ask questions about what things are most important to students in order to have the information mean the most to them and help them to remember it.  What types of activities, on the computer or by hand, do they enjoy the most, again, to help them understand and remember the information the best?  What subjects are best presented with technology included?

Post 5

I was slightly surprised that even teachers have to be so careful with some of the things for copying that they would use in the classroom.  When I was in grade school, I played in the band and we all got copies of sheet music, so there is a great possibility that copyright laws were violated.  I don’t know for a fact, but I’m sure in presentations or other situations either from the teacher or other students the copyright laws were violated somehow.  Out of schools, people violate the copyright laws all the time with CDs and DVDs being burned/copied.  People may also many times take pictures, information and documents posted by others, from the internet.  I think as a teacher it is important to inform students on what copyright is and in which ways they could get in trouble if they copy certain things.  In order to do this, I will assign certain assignments that students may use certain information or other copyrighted materials and will see how they handle the contents.