Respect applys to computer use as well
Now that you are a young adult you will have more freedom with your research opportunities than when you were a child and young adolescent. With these learning privileges you must exercise maturity. A great part of maturity is making decisions that are safe for tools you use, for yourself, and for others. Remember to keep the “Respect(ations)” and class policies in mind when you are online. Consequences for doing anything other than school work during computer lab time will result in a maturity essay and a phone call home. After a warning with the maturity essay, further consequences will be arranged.
Internet safety is serious. I want to keep my students safe online and preserve the use of technology as a learning tool, rather than making it a distraction. I will provide you with a list of specific addresses for you to begin your research on. As we explore these together in the lab, we will discuss how accurate, authoritative, objective, current these sites are, as well as to what degree coverage for them is available. In other words, we will use our rhetorical tools and critical thinking to evaluate the credibility of these sites. We will consider their availability and reliability. We will discuss their degree of usefulness and the sources biases.
I encourage you to use Knight Cite and Easy Bib for your citations. Please focus on the idea content of the sources and how you can use them for argumentative purposes. You will need to know basic citing information, but grading of that won’t be at all rigorous. You are not to copy and paste however. I will teach you more about paraphrasing and quotations in class. When you use the computers and internet have respect. It's a privilege. Technology is expensive, but it's worth the investment for students to learn. Pay back to society what they invest in you. Use the computers public education provides responsibly. You can do a great deal of harm or good with the internet. How you relate to the world is at your fingertips.
Internet safety is serious. I want to keep my students safe online and preserve the use of technology as a learning tool, rather than making it a distraction. I will provide you with a list of specific addresses for you to begin your research on. As we explore these together in the lab, we will discuss how accurate, authoritative, objective, current these sites are, as well as to what degree coverage for them is available. In other words, we will use our rhetorical tools and critical thinking to evaluate the credibility of these sites. We will consider their availability and reliability. We will discuss their degree of usefulness and the sources biases.
I encourage you to use Knight Cite and Easy Bib for your citations. Please focus on the idea content of the sources and how you can use them for argumentative purposes. You will need to know basic citing information, but grading of that won’t be at all rigorous. You are not to copy and paste however. I will teach you more about paraphrasing and quotations in class. When you use the computers and internet have respect. It's a privilege. Technology is expensive, but it's worth the investment for students to learn. Pay back to society what they invest in you. Use the computers public education provides responsibly. You can do a great deal of harm or good with the internet. How you relate to the world is at your fingertips.