Every day in the news there is an article highlight a new technology gadget or website, technology changes happening, and considerations to remember when using technology. The national news stations’ websites (www.msn.com, www.usatoday.com, etc) are fountains of technology news.
I’m currently in the gathering phase where I bookmark these tech articles. I then copy and paste the article to a Microsoft Word document. Of course, my citation at the bottom includes the website source and date. Websites change and keeping my own copy prevents me from losing the information. I simply post these articles outside the computer lab. It’s interesting to see folks (even parents and teachers) stop, read, and sometimes comment!
Down the road as I have more articles, students will receive copies for class assignments. It’s important to share these articles with students and allow them to digest the information and come to their own conclusions. If the news was important enough to report on a national forum, then there is relevance for my students to know.
Here are some tech-in-the-news articles:
· Plagiarism http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12613617
· Encyclopedia Britannicas Stops Being Printed http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/story/2012-03-08/encyclopaedia-britannica-print/53516812/1?loc=interstitialskip
· Employers looking at Facebook Profiles http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-03-14/facebook-twitter-work-hiring/53515600/1
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