Journal 3

Swan, G., & Park , M. (2012/2013). Students need a Digital Driver's License before they start their engines. Learning and Leading with Technology ,40(4), 26-28. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-leading/digitaledition/digital-edition-december-january-2012-13

Summary:
This article was about a program used by mainly high schools to gauge digital literacy which meets the NETS-T for numbers four and five. These districts encourage a program called BYOD or Bring-your-own-device, which reminds me of a sort of show and tell which has been adapted for teaching technology. It also addresses the problem of teachers saying they are going to address technological problems but rarely do. This program gives you the tools necessary to teach and protect your students online. It outlines CIPA as well which is the Children's Internet Protection Act which states that it is the school's responsibility to educate their students about internet safety.
 Question One:
In regards to the bring your own device option, how are low-income areas going to be able to cope with this?
As more schools adopt such a policy how are students whose families can barely support themselves and put food on the table supposed to buy laptops or Ipads for their children. The article states that the schools are able to provide devices but how are low-income schools supposed to manage this when schools libraries are out of date. This is an amazing tool, however I don't see it being accessible for all districts.
Question two:
Since the basis of the program is testing based with practice-its and prove-its, how can we motivate the student to want to perform well when we already put them through so much testing already?
 Due to the abundance of testing  schools already have in place and my lack of working knowledge of the program used, I feel as though this could be misinterpreted by students as "just another test." Students who know a fair amount about technology and tools that can be used by students like citation machine or what is considered common knowledge in plagiarism and what is not run the risk of being disillusioned by the product and not advancing their knowledge. Since this program is used primarily high school it seems at though it would be functioning as a part of a class but I remember being able to test out of my required technology based class by showing proficiency in word and other programs used often in academics.