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Week 3 Assignment 3.6 Alberto Guia – ET8008 Williamson and Redish 5th Standard of Technology are the Social, Ethical, Legal, and Human components of technology use in the classroom (2009). This is a mouthful and a lot of areas in technology and the classroom that can be covered by all of these topics. They are all issues that all educators face each day, whether they are a classroom or technology teacher. As teachers we struggle daily in regards to ethical and legal components of education. I see it daily when I visit the copy room to check my mailboxes. I see endless stacks of papers that teacher want copies of for their students. Often these papers are not part of the school district’s adopted curriculum but resources the teachers have gathered over the years or found online. The ethical and legal issues with this are whether the information they are using is copyrighted or free source information. Most often it is copy-written material and teachers just go on without breaking a sweat, they need the material regardless of who made it so their student will have a better or different way to learn the required information. As the campuses former technology/computer teacher I was also faced with questions of ethical and legal issues with software. Whenever the campus gets in new computers they often do not come with the mot recent copy of Office Software package the teachers want. As the technology leader I keep all software licensing information and a total count of how many we have left. The hardest part of telling an educator, even the school’s principal that we are out of licenses and I cannot install the asked software until we purchase more is the look on their face they give you. Teachers are like most students and they want what they want now, they have that need for instant gratification. Another major aspect of Standard V is the safety of out students on the Internet. The Internet has been a great tool for educators. It allows them to bring new knowledge and information into the classroom as never before. It gives us great visuals and audio that can enhance almost any lesson. With this great tool comes great responsibility. As technology leaders we have to find ways to ensure that students are safe when they use and navigate through the Internet. We have to show students how to browse safely and how to avoid scams, viruses, and people who mean to do them harm. As a former technology teacher I would always start the year off with the school’s AUP, Acceptable Use Policy, in regards to use of the computers and then the Internet. I would go over with each class the basics of web safety, searching basic, and general web etiquette. .   ** References ** Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). //Technology facilitation and leadership standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do//. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.