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After this weeks lesson, I am really thinking about the use of technology is the classroom. The articles we read proved the importance of it to allow our students to THINK. Yet, every year the county has me read the mandates and restriction on the use of technology. You can make a phone call to a student but you can't text one. You can email them but only from your work email. You can have and Edmodo but not a Facebook. What are we so scared of? 

I teach Digital Video Production and my students cannot access YouTube. It is the king of all videos but they cannot use it as a source of inspiration. YouTube has transformed the way we advertise and the way we watch TV. It is a huge influence on our society and economy but "This page cannot be displayed" gets shown any time a student wants to watch something. Today major companies are turning to the public to create their advertisements for example Doritos and the Super Bowl. Every day people are canceling their cable service to switch to Apple TV or Roku. We have subscriptions to Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime and Netflix. We don't need cable.  So why can't our students access YouTube?