Teaching safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology is extremely important in the classroom. Firstly, computers in the classroom should only be used as another tool and resource to continue learning on a subject that is already being taught in other methods, such as, activities, discussions, and hands-on learning. Before using computers in the classroom, teachers need to teach their students what they are allowed and are not allowed to do on the Internet. Students needs to have rules on what they are allowed to search and what programs they are allowed to use on the computer. Sometimes giving students no guidelines can lead to them being off task and not completing the given assignment. Another important idea to teach children about using the Internet is to cite their sources. If children are taught at a young age to cite others ideas when they are not their own, it will become routine for them, as it has for me (http://www.slideshare.net/Mrs.Faust/teaching-ethical-and-legal-use-of-technology-in-the-classroom).
When I have my own classroom, I want to integrate technology into the my lessons. Technology is all around us now and it is basically unavoidable. I remember being in elementary school and it being a rare occasion that I was allowed to use a computer for work, other than taking reading tests. Now, students are using iPads, tablets, SmartBoards, computers, and many other devices that I know I am not even aware of. I will be sure to teach my students to be safe while using the Internet. Especially for younger grades, which is what I am interested in teaching, I will most likely have a safety block on the Internet so they cannot get into trouble when they are not sure what they are doing. I feel that giving young students full access to everything on a computer can sometimes cause conflicts because some students know more or less about what capabilities the Internet has.
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