One thing that struck me from our first class was an interesting issue that was brought up by our group discussion of the standards for use of technology in the classroom. The goal of training your students to respect copyright law seems problematic to me. While I don't want to encourage my students to be criminals, I view that vast majority of copyright law to be fundamentally immoral. Many of the laws for the Internet were created for print media and then were poorly adapted to digital media. This struck me as a very grey area in these standards.
Another aspect of our discussion that I was more in agreement with was the focus on viewing technology open attitude toward it's usefulness. The point that was made to the class that technology is not automatically appropriate or productive in every situation was a good one. I am a very pro technology person in general and in my teaching but I realize that technology should not always be mandated just for the sake of using it. I try to think critically about how useful technology could be in the context I am considering using it. I think this openness with help with an objective presentation of the potential uses of different blogs, wikis, and other technology uses in this class.
