During my senior year of high school, I took a Cambridge class which required me to get my Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Certification. For this class, I went through hours of training for both Word and PowerPoint in order to master all of the skills required of me to learn. The modules were lengthy, nonetheless, I became a Microsoft expert. Because it was a new class, my teacher also completed the courses as the same pace as us, meaning we learned how to perfect our Microsoft skills all together in the classroom. Other than this, I took a computer class in middle school which taught me a little bit about Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The things that I learned in this class helped me with the basic assignments I knew I would be assigned throughout middle and high school. While completing some of these other assignments, I explored with the programs and self-taught myself many things prior to my Microsoft Certification.
     Towards the end of middle school, I was taught about plagiarism and copyright. At first it was very difficult to remember to cite all of my sources and to quote properly, but as I wrote more papers, I became more accustomed to it and understood its purpose more and more. Because I plan on being an elementary school teacher prior to becoming a school psychologist, I do not think I will have to be dealing with teaching my students about copyrights given that they will not be at a level high enough to be conducting research or writing papers. For young children, one must show them an example of something and have them re-create their own. This can be similar to copyright in the sense that I can show children a drawing for example and have them recreate that drawing to the best of their ability. Young children will want to be as accurate as possible and try to copy the drawing, however, in this case I can explain to them that they cannot make the drawing just like the one they saw because it is original to the artist and they cannot copy it exactly because it would be like "stealing" and stealing is not a good thing.
     Copyright- Copyright can be ensured by researching the creator of the piece of work and confirming that they copyrighted their works prior to using it and showing it to students in order to avoid plagiarizing their work.
     Academic honesty- Academic honesty can be ensured by creating a safer testing environment for children by placing blockers around each child to prevent other children from copying from one another's tests.
     Cyberbullying- Cyberbullying can be prevented or reduced by encouraging parents to monitor their child's social media accounts to ensure that they are in a friendly media platform and not engaging in discussions that they should not be participating in or speaking to people whom they should not be speaking to. It is also beneficial to warn children about the dangers of the internet and to remind them that it is important to be kind not only in person, but online as well.

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