Internet Safety Conversation

For my internet safety conversation I talked with my husband (24 years old). I felt like we were pretty aware of the dangers of the internet beforehand. However, as we discussed in further depth, he did not know a lot of the things I learned from watching the videos. The main topic of our conversation was how we could as future parents be involved enough in our future childrens' lives to know what they are doing online. We discussed ways to monitor the internet in our home. We talked about the importance of building good relationships with them so that we could talk about things that we were worried about openly with them. I think that it was very effective for us to have this discussion.

A couple things I learned from presentations

I really enjoyed watching and listening to and learning from the technology presentations from our practicum. One of the main things I learned was that the Title 1 schools are spoiled as far as technology goes. It was much easier for them to prepare a lesson where the students were actively involved with the technology. Those schools had access to much more technology than did a school such as mine. I also learned that technology is not always reliable. One of the presentations in my group had an extreme difficulty in that the technology did not even work. I think that technology when it is accessible and integrated can be very valuable in teaching.