Blog #3: Copyright
Blog #3:
What is Copyright and Fair Use?
Copyright ties into protection of a person's property of a song, logo, etc. You can also correlate it to as a person's right to own their original works without it being claimed by another. Fair use is placed as guidelines to the proper way to market and own your original work as well as being properly cited if someone does use your work.
Sadly in my time at school, I was never taught the proper way to cite and give credit to the proper owner of that content. I was even clueless on what the term plagiarism even meant. Therefore, I had to learn the hard way as a mere 7th grader. As a teacher I would teach the purpose of copyright and what that may look like on a yearly basis. As children progress further up in grade levels, the teachings of copyright and fair use should be retaught in every grade until college. Depending on that grade level can determine the complexity of how to properly cite the owner of the content is essay format, picture format, and any other format. As well as, how a student can make their own original creation that no one can steal.
Technology Implementation Issues:
Academic dishonesty is very common now that information and answers can be easily accessed. Some resources are starting to be implemented such as honorlock which allows a system to withhold the user to open excess tabs while taking a quiz or exam. Another is proctored exams, where you are being monitored as well as your screen by a virtual individual to prevent students from cheating.
Bullying as always been around, however with the use of social platforms many have become ruthless in comments towards another. While adolescents focus on fitting in physically, social media can affect their social status. However, the self-positivity movement is powerful in promoting self-love. Also a lot of social media platforms have created the option of reporting a account for malicious behavior or even deleting a comment on your posts.
Newsletter Assignment:
I found the Newsletter project interesting in how teachers have to use materials to inform and engage a class and their parents. Also helped in exploring how the use of Canva can 'spice' up my content. I realized all the different templates that are available to my disposal, which can be used resourcefully for any projects I need to do in the future. Below is my use of Newsletter Assignment based on a 10th grade drafting one class:
Hello B.C! I enjoyed reading your blog! Students should not have to learn about plaguarism and citations the hard way, especially when educators seem to have litlle tolerance for it. Proper citations need to be emphasised. Plaguarism is an easy pitfall if students don't know the rules of citation. Understanding how to find information and cite it actually makes writing papers a whole lot easier! I think they way that citations are approached in education confuses a lot of students, so explaining their purpose would go a long way. Additionally, the standard we use for citations is APA and MLA, which involve a lot of set up in the actual paper itself. There are a number of rules to each of these that may be confusing for young minds, and by using these we overcomplicate the process a bit. An overcomplication of the process leads to accidental plaguarism, which leads to the enforcing of anti-plaguarism rules against children that do not really uphold the original intent of the rule. Students need to learn APA and MLA, but not as their first means of citation where they have to write around the use of sources. I think Chicago style citations would be the perfect way to teach kids how to cite. If a sentence has information that you got from a source, then drop a number behind the sentence and include the authors name, title of the source, and date of publication in the footnotes! Its away from the rest of the paper, it doesn't require kids to change the way they are writing for their source, it is easy to do and to understand, and it can be used to teach students about the importance of proper citations!
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I also talked about cyberbullying and academic dishonesty in my blog. Academic dishonesty is a tough issue, but it has clear solutions and workarounds. I feel like we shouldn't be using software to view student screens, because it exposes the data of children to people who may want to do malicious things with it. Viewing students through their cameras is also a strnage method, and often flags students for cheating when they might just stare off sometimes (this is especially bullshit for students with ADD or ADHD). I think that the best way to avoid it is to keep exams in person once the global pandemic is over, or using websites that don't allow students to exit the tab until the exam is over. The latter was a very popular method for in person online tests, and in combination with proctoring it made it very difficult for any student to cheat.
Cyberbullying is an issue where the solutions are a lot less clear. We can't be idealist when discussing this issue, it is far to prevelant for that. Even if we could quickly change overarching societal views on self-positivity and self-love, there will stll be Cyberbullies, and there will still be students who will be affected by the online harrassment, regardless of how much they have been taught to love themselves.
Cyberbullying is a complex and devastating issue. The reality that on its worst end, a child might try to kill themselves because of cyberbullying is a really difficult reality to face. When faced with a difficult and complex reality we try to come up with easy solutions, then stop thinking about the issue because its not something that is easy to think about. We need concrete solutions, and these solutions are going to be very hard to find. It'll weigh on us emotionally, but its what is necessary to fight the issue. Step one is understanding that there is an issue, something that we all have done; ten years ago cyberbullying was not seen as a serious problem, so we are heading in the right direction. Step two is understanding that there are no simple solution, and that this is something that we are going to be fighting for a long time.
I enjoyed reading your blog very much! Have a wonderful day!
Have your teachers or professors copied the first chapter of your textbook and shared with students at the beginning of the semester? Did they make money out of those copies? Did they include citation? If so, your instructors did it under the guidelines of fair use law. Please check your answer for the first prompt one more time.
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