Most everybody has been influenced by modern technology in the past ten years. The world has changed so staggeringly fast that students who enter college to pursue technical degrees will have (almost certainly) learned mostly obsolete information in their fields by the time they graduate. This means that educators are teaching skills to students whose jobs have not been created yet. According to "Digital Citizenship: Addressing Appropriate Technology Behavior", by Ribble, Bailey, and Ross, inappropriate use of technology, modeled by teachers to students, has sent the message that it is not important to practice social responsibility when it comes to technology. I think that part of the reason behind this behavior is in the lack of precedence of this digital era. Here is an interesting video on the pace of change in the world today:
As a responsible educator, we must verse ourselves in the use of these new technologies with the goal in mind of teaching a student to be competitive in the global arena.
Exposure to more media than ever before in more formats (websites, text, video, etc.) has led to the creation of copyright and fair use laws that govern the intellectual property of others. It is always important to credit any source you use, including books, videos, and websites. If you intend on using intellectual material for noneducational purposes, you must obtain a copyright. This
website has specific information on the fair use of information from the internet for use in the classroom.
Interesting video. Part of our challenge as music educators is to maintain the quality of performance on instruments that originated in the 15th-, 16th-, 17th- centuries and still help our students get to their future.
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