Digital Dilemmas: How Elementary Preservice Teachers Reason about Appropriate Computer and Internet Use and Their Predictions of Students’ Judgments and Justifications

摘要: With increased computer technology use in schools, preservice teachers must be prepared to deal with ethical issues involved a range of uses, such as students plagiarizing from the Internet or accessing adults-only web sites. We investigated teachers’ judgments regarding several scenarios student uses and Internet. Results show that most believed appropriate involve specific classroom school rules rather than universal considerations. also asked predict elementary students’ responses same scenarios. Preservice were at times able for whether behavior was appropriate; however, they unable explain why made those judgments. Our findings provide valuable information teacher education programs on how can better incidents and, turn, help understand various