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The internet to support students research is wonderful and not so wonderful all at the same time. I love using the internet to find resources to support my papers or my theories because books are hard to find that have a lot of information about your specific topic because books may only have one or 2 sentances that have to deal with what you are looking for. It is really useful when looking up information about a subject that has government statistics and issues that have been further researched and the information is legit. When information is online from doctors and Ph D graduates who research specific issues and ideas and when the information is also from teachers who have done extensive research it can be helpful. The internet is not useful in the aspect that anyone can post anything online and clain it as either their own work when it is borrowed from someone else or they just made it up out of thin air.

Some resources that interest me are databases particularly. You can be reassured that databases are there to help you and are not like wikipedia where anyone can add in their own 2 cents at anytime they want to. I love using FSUs library online because I can find what am looking for and even locate books in the libraries and I can then go and pick them up. I think databases are amazing and can hold a lot of much needed information and help to prove a point in a paper you may be writing.

The age of my children would be from 6-7 and their grade would be first or second. For students in the technology environment I would talk to them about the internet before I even allowed them onto the computer. I would talk to them about plagarism because the earlier they are on the computers the earlier they can be taught where it is not ok to take someone else ork and call it your own or borrow someone elses idea without crediting them for adding to your theory and paper and I would explain this to them in the terms that they understand. The earlier children learn something is wrong the less likely they will turn to that bad behavior later because it is the difference between right and wrong...