Blog Journal 2
As a student, the extent of my experience using Microsoft Word was limited to writing papers. I would use Word for projects that required a typed essay, but other than that I wasn't required to use it very much at all in my middle school and high school. My teachers would rarely use Word; they often utilized MS PowerPoint in the classroom to teach their lessons, but we didn't use Word in the same way. I personally used Google Docs much more often because I could be writing something on a school computer and I'd still be able to access it on my computer at home without having to save a Word document to a flash drive every time I wanted to work at home.
I have countless experiences with copyright and fair use in the classroom that I didn't even think about until writing this blog. My teachers have played copyrighted movies and other media in the classroom, but the teachers would always credit the creator and use it solely for educational purposes. There are also many public domain resources that we used in class; often in my history classes we would listen to important historical songs that are public domain. Sometimes, during school projects that involved creating a video, students would use copyrighted songs in the background and wouldn't credit the creator at the end of the video. My teachers never had an issue with it, and I think this is because there is a much greater focus on plagiarism in the classroom than copyright infringement.
Three important issues that I think can be addressed in the classroom are copyright, cyberbullying, and privacy. For copyright, I believe the solution is as simple as explaining to students the different symbols and what they mean. So many students assume they can use whatever resources they want without crediting the creator because it's "just for school", but copyright should be touched on in the classroom the same way that plagiarism and proper citation format are. For cyberbullying, there are many video resources explaining how harmful cyberbullying can be that could be used in the classroom. I would also bring up my own personal experiences with cyberbullying and negativity online to show my students that absolutely anyone can be a victim of cyberbullying and that those words have an effect on people. With the issue of privacy, I would discuss it in the context of future opportunities. Colleges and workplaces can very easily access any of your public social media and see what you're putting out into the world. Anything you wouldn't be comfortable sharing directly to your employer probably shouldn't be something you post on the internet, and I would explain that to my students along with the fact that the choices you make on the internet are irreversible.
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I have countless experiences with copyright and fair use in the classroom that I didn't even think about until writing this blog. My teachers have played copyrighted movies and other media in the classroom, but the teachers would always credit the creator and use it solely for educational purposes. There are also many public domain resources that we used in class; often in my history classes we would listen to important historical songs that are public domain. Sometimes, during school projects that involved creating a video, students would use copyrighted songs in the background and wouldn't credit the creator at the end of the video. My teachers never had an issue with it, and I think this is because there is a much greater focus on plagiarism in the classroom than copyright infringement.
Three important issues that I think can be addressed in the classroom are copyright, cyberbullying, and privacy. For copyright, I believe the solution is as simple as explaining to students the different symbols and what they mean. So many students assume they can use whatever resources they want without crediting the creator because it's "just for school", but copyright should be touched on in the classroom the same way that plagiarism and proper citation format are. For cyberbullying, there are many video resources explaining how harmful cyberbullying can be that could be used in the classroom. I would also bring up my own personal experiences with cyberbullying and negativity online to show my students that absolutely anyone can be a victim of cyberbullying and that those words have an effect on people. With the issue of privacy, I would discuss it in the context of future opportunities. Colleges and workplaces can very easily access any of your public social media and see what you're putting out into the world. Anything you wouldn't be comfortable sharing directly to your employer probably shouldn't be something you post on the internet, and I would explain that to my students along with the fact that the choices you make on the internet are irreversible.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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