Implementing a solid standard for technology access in public schools throughout Tennessee will ensure that all students are equipped to function in a world that is becoming more dependent on technology each day. Research has shown that learning technology has a significant effect on students’ test scores as well as their attitudes towards learning. This suggests that rural and poor communities primarily targeted by this standard would see a rise in student performance as well as student participation. No student should be disadvantaged because of the location of his or her community. All students in this state deserve the opportunity to access tools that will help thrust them further into modern industry and out of low-wage local jobs that many rural students are presently predestined for. (Ben Webb, “A Standard for Technological Access”)

This is another good concluding paragraph from a student paper:

The application of photo manipulation is growing and with new surfacing technologies that make it even easier, it more important than ever to set a boundary of ethics for what is right and what is wrong. It is becoming harder than ever for photojournalists to revise their practices and keep to a set of ethical boundaries. Without these rules and guidelines, what used to be fact and truth is becoming confused with art, cartoons, fantasy and fiction. Where photography was once used as evidence and truth, it is losing its credibility and turning the media into a growing pot of lies and scandal. Just because incredible technology exists that allows us to crop one persons head onto another’s body, that doesn’t give us the excuse to use it and publish it. As Bradley Wilson of the NPPA said, “our job as journalists is to depict reality, not to change it” (Rattini).

(Stacey Suarez, “Image Manipulation Ethics in Digital Media”)