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PLO 1 -- Article Review

The article that I found was that of “Adult Educators in Cyberspace.”   The author of this article Margaret Holt explains some of the advantages and disadvantages of mixing education with technology in the classroom.   She states that, “adult educators, like everyone else in the teaching and learning enterprise, are forced to weigh ethical issues attached to instructional technology.”   Holt does agree that there are advantages of using technology in the classroom, but there are also disadvantages of doing so.   Some of the disadvantages are: ·          Concerns for learner privacy ·          Learner dishonesty ·          The ability to access the technology ·          Intellectual property rights and copyright infringement I feel that this article really makes the educators take a good look at how the use of technology could affect their classroom. I currently have no formal training in the classroom so I am going to use what I have seen in my children’s school and