Thing #6

I think that it is amazing how far we have come in technology. To the point that we can video people with out their knowledge and put it on youtube for the world to see. In this clip NEA Today videos it talks about a music teacher allowing his students free time in class. While pretending to sleep one of his students video taped him. That video clip was added to youtube. There were some upset parents and so was the principal. Luckily this ended on a good note, there were not any charges brought against him.

In Japan there is a lady whose virtual world husband was giving her a virtual world divorce. This caused her to kill her online digital husband. She was arrested for charges on hacking. 

I think these are pretty extreme to me. I am kind of shocked that technology is so advanced that our children can video something and add it to the web, and yet most of them never get their work done in class. A lot of them are failing in some of their classes. Those are the kids that we can reach and teach through learning with technology. 

I don't know what to say about the lady in Japan. That blows me away. I didn't know that people take the virtual world on the web so seriously.