Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Blog Assignment 1: Internet Resources

This assignment's focus is to search the web for websites that give information and sources about computer usage in schools, and issues concerning computers dealing with people's health, culture, equality, and more.
1. Copyright Issues and internet use.
This Website is about copyright and plagiarism issues and explains to people what a copyright is and what plagiarism is. This site also explains why copyrights are given and why it is wrong to copy another person's work. It also tells us what people can or cannot do under the circumstances of a copyright.
This website explains to Educators and Students how to use the internet and other forms of media without plagiarizing. This page explains that not only computers are a part of copyrights, but the use of audio, video, images, and text are all things that can be copyrighted and can be plagiarized.
 2. Equity Issues in Computer Use in Schools.
A. Equity in Computer Classrooms
This site deals with and talks about the issue of inequality in the classroom dealing with computer usage. It states that white males are encouraged more towards computer usage than females and students of different ethnicities. Computers are seen as being for people who study mathematics and computer science. It also talks about societal myths and how they add to the issue of inequality in technology and computer usage.
B. Gender Equity in Computer Learning
This article from Jstor describes how gender equity in the schools is only a small percentage of the entire issue. When men and women are being hired as computer teachers in the schools, women are hardly considered when against their male counterparts. This article also asks the question, "Are females being treated unequally when it comes to computer education, or are they afraid to learn and become a part of computer culture?" 


3. Cultural Issues in the use of Computers in Schools
A. Family and Cultural Issues in Assistive Technology
Not only does this website deal with cultural differences, but it also deals with different children and how much computer exposure they have.  The thing that concerns most parents, especially religious parents, is their child's decision making when using a computer. Different cultures are concerned about computers due to them exposing inappropriate information to their students.
B. Cultural Difference and its Influence on Learning
This website explains how people's cultural backgrounds are influenced by learning computer-based technology. It also looks at how a computer is designed influences a student's cultural background. Then it explains how computer's can help with effective learning.
4. Health Problems Concerning the Use of Computers.
A. Top 4 Health Problems Dealing with Computer Use
This website lists the top 4 health problems with computer usage. People these days deal with computers almost all day, and they face serious risks from this. Eye Disease, Bad Posture, Hurting Hands and Computer Stress Injuries are the top four health problems that computer users are at risk for.
B. Kids, Computers and Computer Vision
This website gives parents and teachers helpful hints to keeping their children safe from health problems when using computers. It warns parents that kids who use computers for hours at a time are at risk for developing computer ergonomics problems and computer vision syndrome. This website also gives ideas on how to prevent students from having vision problems by suggesting that parents give an allotted time on the computer everyday.

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