There are many types of technology to consider, as well as a broad range of types of students, but I will focus on internet use with my middle school students. The internet is the first stop many of my students make when they are conducting research. Their reliance on this specific type of technology is not always a positive thing, for a couple of reasons. First of all, students tend to believe that if they find it on the internet, it must be true. Secondly, they believe that there is no reason to use real books when the internet is available. Thirdly, they often believe that cutting and pasting from internet articles is completely acceptable, and fourthly, they have not learned to merge different sources of information to provide support for a specific idea or thesis. These are issues that educators at all levels are going to have to deal with; in this case, technology has created a situation where students aren't thinking about a topic, or evaluating the credibility of resources. They must receive specific instruction on these things at every level of education, starting when they are in elementary school, or we are going to have an entire generation of people who don't know how to write without plagiarizing.