Eyes on the Screen: Ethical Tech Use for Educators
~30 minutes
You are a first-year teacher in an inclusive SPED classroom as the SPED teacher. The students have been assigned independent reading time. She observes the Regular Ed teacher spending most of the period playing an online game on her laptop, occasionally laughing or reacting aloud. Some students seem off-task, a few glance over at the teacher's screen, and one even whispers to a classmate, "How cool it is she gets to game at work." You're unsure how to process what you're witnessing — is this a moment of harmless downtime, or a breach of professionalism affecting student engagement and classroom norms? As a future educator, you're left with a decision: do you ignore it, address it, or seek guidance?