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MS Word is a program that I've used extensively throughout my educational experience. A majority of this usage was to write essays for various projects. Another large percentage is taken up by notes, especially as I go further into my college experience. I have also used it extensively in order to plan out projects. These include brainstorming, creating outlines, creating schedules, and saving sources.

I do not have a lot of experience with copyright or fair use. Largely, my experience runs more along the lines of plagiarism i.e. "make sure when you use it that you cite any and all sources you use, do not portray it as your own work." I would attempt to resolve these issues by taking it on a case-by-case basis of what I can use and researching anything I am unsure of before I used it.

I would attempt to address sexting by pointing out the legal implications and what could happen to my students should they be caught doing this. Another issue that would be addressed would be privacy. I would encourage students to not share their personal information with people they meet online or, if they do, then not to share more than just their first name and a few very vague facts. Cyberstalking would be addressed by encouraging students to privatize their personal social media accounts and monitoring their friends list to only include people they actually know.

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Teacher's are motivated to use technology in the classroom by the necessity to prepare students to be able to effectively use technology in a world that has increasingly become more reliant on technology. Students use technology because it is something they have grown up with and are used to it. To them it is another part of everyday life and it would be akin to some older generations not using pencil and paper in their work.

The ISTE Standard that resonated the most with me was how teachers have to continually learn about new technologies and practice with them. I've known a lot of teachers throughout my educational experience as a student who were unfamiliar with technology. It can get distracting, especially when you know how to do it better. It can also keep students from becoming engaged because they will usually use such technology to the bare minimum of its potential.

I do personally agree with the term "digital native". "Digital natives", in my own opinion, are those who have grown up not just completely surrounded by technology, but also using and interacting with it from a young age. I've noticed that a lot of my teachers don't really know as how to use some of the features of technology that people my age use very often, largely noticeable on programs like social media or Microsoft Office. In the future, I anticipate that I will likely fall into the same pitfalls if I am unable to keep up with the changing technology unless I take the time to learn how to use new resources extensively.

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My experiences using technology in education are varied and largely positive. I've used several different types of devices and software throughout my school career. Projectors were used most often with Microsoft Office Powerpoint when I was younger but as I got older and advanced in school the technology and software became more varied. During my last few years of high school I started to use Microsoft Office Word much more often to type out various papers for my classes. Additionally, my math classes began to be exclusively taught on SmartBoards in my sophmore year. Document cameras and Prezi software were added in when I began college as well. This technology has been used to great effect to enhance the lessons and my own assignments as well. Using the projectors and SmartBoards my instructors were able to bring in more sources from websites to YouTube videos that really helped to reinforce the information they were teaching. The Prezi software as well was much more eye-catching than the normal powerpoint software which helped to capture the students' attention.

I hope to learn how to use all of this technology in a more advanced manner than the bare basics I currently know. This will help me to more efficiently teach my students in the future as I will be able to use these resources to their full effects. It will also help me to make their appearance a bit more interesting visually which will be helpful in capturing students' attention. 

This questionnaire helped me to realize I was a largely verbal learner. For the most part I had never truly thought about how I processed information and how to present it to myself in order to make it easier to absorb and understand. I may go on to use this newfound knowledge in my own studies. I also learned that most people are largely visual learners when I went in to read the information in the links. This information will be useful in the future as I begin to make lessons and presentations, taking in to account for how to best help more of my students absorb the material.