School 2.0 reflection!

With Students now becoming more and more familiar with the internet it is very important that we as teachers try our best to keep our students safe from the potential dangers of the World Wide Web. If a teacher is going to be planning on utilizing technology then it is very important that the learn how to allow students to use this technology in the safest manner possible. The NETS-T that I am using is NETS-T Module: Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility. As you may be able to tell this module is to promote responsibility and good citizenship when dealing with technology. One of the resources I looked at was the web site http://www.csriu.org/. This web site is dedicated to safety on the internet, this site works like a database of articles, journals and books dedicated to promoting a safer environment for students while they are using the internet. 

Self Portrait

Hello My Name Is: David Freund

Hi everyone,
I'm David Freund i am currently a senior at Cal. State San Marcos and studying the field of Kinesiology. I was born in Japan (raised as a military brat) but did most of my growing up in San Francisco and San Diego. I went to kindergarten and first grade in a school called Treasure Island Elementary School while i lived on the naval base also named Treasure Island. This place was rad to grow up in because we were located in the middle of the San Francisco Bay and could see the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island from my back yard.  I moved to San Diego in 2nd grade and have been here ever since. I attended elementary school at Westwood Elementary School, middle school at Bernardo Heights Middle School, and High School at Rancho Bernardo High School.

Seeing as how this course is primarily about technology i do not think i will be having too many issues with it. Technology and myself usually get along pretty well, as long as it doesn't get too advanced. I can find my way around most computers. I suppose i am most comfortable with a PC but mostly that is due to the fact that I have been using a PC since 2nd grade. Recently I have gotten an Apple computer as well so this class will be very nice in helping me figure out how to use that computer properly.

After reading the College of Education Mission Statement I can see that this school is dedicated to improving the degree of teaching within the public school system. It is a good goal to educate teacher candidates into becoming better teachers, however i do not feel that the college does a good enough job in making this mission statement heard by all. The first time i was introduced to this education statement i was well into my 3rd year of college. As a result it had no role in me choosing Cal State San Marcos for my education. I chose San Marcos because it was the only school within in my range of affordability and i simply got lucky that it offered a field in teaching. So here i am ready to learn and hoping to become a good teacher some day in the future.