Replacement for Chapter4

The first article I read talks about protecting a students privacy with today's technology. An example that was used was that a PDA was lost during a basketball games and it contained every students' medical, finical and other private information. This article talks about how you choose the information that needs to be protected and setting up confidentiality requirements to access the student information. The way to decide is to think about all the questions you would have during registering a student for school. Personally I think it's almost impossible to protect a students privace completely; with blocks that on internet that keeps track of everywhere a student goes on the web and keeps track of everything they type. It doesn't seem realistic that students won't be able to bypass those blocks or even hack into another student's inforamtion.

The second artice I read Microsoft Math and after reading it I wish my school would have had this program readily acceptable. In school math was always the hardest subject for me because I am a very visual learning and there is only so much a teacher can do with numbers. This program allows for both students and teachers have access to a ' graphing' caculator, manipulate graphs of all kinds, make 3d equations and enter into the system a multitude of information at the same time. With this program I think math would be a lot easier for both students and teachers.

The last article I read was titled Implementing NETS.S and I was really interested in seeing how when learning how to teach a lot of students are made aware of the NETS.S and what they were, but not how to work them into their own classrooms. As teachers they should care, but how are they suppose to get their students to care. After a lot of revision there are now a lot of workshops for teachers that are just for the NETS.S. They talk about support groups with other teachers so they can share their like experiences and frustrations.