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Copyright Lesson and Knowledge Application

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Copyright Lesson and Knowledge Application

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Copyright Presentation.pptx

Free PowerPoint lesson to learn and teach copyright basics including plagiarism, public domain, and citing sources. Includes an activity to apply knowledge.

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Store photos and docs online. Access them from any PC, Mac or phone. Create and work together on Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents.

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https://blog.tcea.org/copyright/?fbclid=IwAR0ObUrC5rnusoHJBDec240S7pv0JTBiSiYYyDTgy1uLI8Njofrn6slNcjc

Free teacher resource for learning and teaching the most important points of copyright.

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Most people don't find themselves breathless with excitement at the prospect of learning about copyright. If you were to play a word association game with the term copyright, you would likely get responses such as boring, confusing, unnecessary, or annoying. While those emotions might be legitimate, the truth is, understanding copyright is a necessary evil for both teachers and students. Let's break it down into the most useful pieces of information.

The most basic way to explain copyright is this: It's a law that protects people who create by giving them the right to control who can use their creations and how. The following are protected by copyright:

Essentially, if it is highly creative, it's protected by copyright law.

A common misconception is that a copyright symbol must be present to show that a work is copyrighted; actually, once a work takes tangible form, it's covered by copyright. So if you scribble a poem on a cocktail napkin, it's copyrighted. Every picture you take with your phone is copyrighted. You don't need the symbol, and you don't need to officially register your work to have copyright law apply.

Copyright law can be pretty unforgiving. To use a copyrighted work, you would have to determine who the copyright holder is and get permission to use the work. That can be time-consuming or even close to impossible. The internet makes it more confusing because it looks like everything is freely available to use. It can be really difficult to track down a copyright holder online because so many things, especially images, get shared over and over again. So if you're about ready to give up ever using anything copyrighted ever again, don't fret! There are a couple of things that make it much easier for educators to work easily within copyright law!

Fair Use

One nice option is Fair Use. While not an official part of copyright law, it still allows copyrighted works to be used for some very specific purposes - one of which is education. Now, that doesn't mean you can run to the copy machine and make copies of a novel for your students instead of buying them! Fair Use says that copyrighted works can be used for educational purposes if used in small amounts (as opposed to in entirety) and if the impact doesn't harm the market for that item. Since Fair Use isn't officially part of copyright law, there aren't any hard and fast guidelines for using works and calling it Fair Use. That makes some people nervous because they just don't know when they may have crossed a line and used too much work or used it inappropriately.

Creative Commons

Luckily, there is another option that can be useful in the educational setting. That's Creative Commons. This does work within existing copyright law, so it can be much clearer to understand what can and cannot be done with a copyrighted work. Creative Commons licenses were developed to give copyright holders clearly communicated control over certain aspects of their work, ranging from fairly lax requirements to pretty stringent. Creative Commons licenses indicate the following things:

Attribution: all licenses require you to give credit to the original creator of the work; this also allows you to adapt, remix, and build upon someone else's work.

ShareAlike: this indicates that you are allowed to adapt, remix, and build upon another person's work and then share your creation using the same licensing the original creator used.

NoDerivs: this allows you to use someone else's work but you can't adapt it.

NonCommercial: this allows you to adapt, remix, and build upon someone else's work, but you can't do it commercially.

There are actually six different Creative Commons licenses, using different combinations of the above elements. The least restrictive would be Attribution (do what you want, just give credit); the most restrictive would be Attribution-NonCommericial-NoDerivs (share someone's work only as it is, non-commercially, and with credit given).

Because teachers and students alike use copyrighted materials daily for education, it's important to have a basic understanding of what copyright is and how to work within it. Here is an excellent resource from the Learning Technology Center of Illinois that serves as a great guide for educators when it comes to Fair Use and Copyright.

For the younger learners, simply teaching them that anything they didn't create on their own belongs to someone else and having them share where they found it will be sufficient. As students get older, however, they should learn the nuances of copyright, become familiar with Fair Use and Creative Commons, and learn ways to formally document their use of any copyrighted materials in school projects.

Copyright violations become increasingly severe as kids get older and become adults. Anything from a failing score on an assignment or a failed course to disciplinary measures like expulsion could happen to a student, depending on the severity of the violation and the student's age. As an adult, it could cost someone his or her job or even result in fines or jail time. That's why starting early instruction on copyright is so important.

If you've decided that copyright is fascinating, welcome to my world! If you've decided that copyright is fascinating, welcome to my world! Here are a few great resources for you to keep the learning going!

Renee Bogacz is one of TCEA's Elementary Technology Conference (ETC) speakers! If you want to learn more about teaching kids about copyright, don't miss her session:

Kids Can Care About Copyright, Too! Think kids can't understand copyright? Think again! Learn how to break down copyright so it's easy to understand, and discover tools your students can use to respect copyright!

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Let's break down the basics of copyright, explore Creative Commons licenses, learn about fair use, and then...teach it to our students!

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Free e-learning platform with engaging, authoritative lessons on subjects like news media bias, misinformation, conspiratorial thinking and more.

Learners develop the ability to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources and apply critical thinking skills to separate fact-based content from falsehoods.

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The free Be Internet Awesome curriculum gives educators the tools and methods they need to teach digital safety fundamentals. The materials developed by Google in partnership with iKeepSafe enable educators to bring the most critical teachings—and the excitement of Interland—into the classroom.

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The Be Internet Awesome curriculum gives educators the tools and methods they need to teach digital safety fundamentals. The materials developed by Google in partnership with iKeepSafe enable educators to bring the most critical teachings-and the excitement of Interland-into the classroom.

Included in the curriculum are lesson plans for the five topics, with activities and worksheets that were designed to complement Interland.

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Stanford U developed these free lessons and assessments that help teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.

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Free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.

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Free lesson plans, tip sheets and other resources on various media topics, searchable by grade level.

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Free resources on fighting fake news and developing students' media literacy skills.

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NLP's mission is to provide programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the skills needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.

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Free resource for students to learn about five factors to consider when evaluating the credibility of a claim. Then they use the techniques associated with each factor to apply their knowledge.

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https://copyrightandcreativity.org/about-these-resources/

Free site with materials that provide accessible and practical information about copyright – its protections, its limitations, and its role in encouraging creativity.

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The Copyright and Creativity curricula available here were initially developed by the Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe), an education nonprofit founded to promote online safety.iKeepSafe created the lessons between 2014 and 2016 with funding support from the Center for Copyright Information (CCI), a collaboration between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and leading members of the media and entertainment industries. CCI was formed to educate consumers about the importance of copyright protection and to help consumers find appropriate ways to enjoy digital content. iKeepSafe employed a rigorous development process to ensure that its curriculum materials would be accurate, balanced, age-appropriate, and relevant to the education community. This included significant review, input, and involvement by independent educators, academic copyright experts, and online civil liberties advocates. The professional development videos were also developed by iKeepSafe with production assistance from Creative Future, a coalition focused on promoting the value of creativity in the digital age. In 2017, iKeepSafe transferred these materials to the Internet Education Foundation (IEF) with the goal of reaching a wider audience.IEF is a nonprofit whose mission includes educating the public about Internet-related issues and encouraging coalitions of corporations, industry associations, and public interest groups to work together on educational outreach projects. The C&C curriculum materials have been taught in a number of schools with positive reported results. In addition, the Center on Media and Child Health conducted a study in 2017 to determine whether the middle school curriculum was effective with students. The study concluded that the curriculum "succeeded at its primary goal of educating middle-school children about how copyright affects them as they create, acquire, and share digital media" as well as at "helping students understand that copyright applies and is relevant to their own creative endeavors, not just commercial media." The study also reported that "[s]tudents found the material new and relevant." A summary of the study findings is available here. The full study report is here. These materials are licensed through a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .A copy of this license is available here .For uses after July 31, 2017, licensees should provide attribution to both iKeepSafe and the Internet Education Foundation. C&C welcomes feedback on these materials, particularly from educators. In addition, information about which schools are using the materials would greatly assist C&C's ability to continue to make these resources available free of charge. To provide substantive feedback or to inform C&C about schools that are using these resources, please use this link.

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About These Resources | Copyright & Creativity

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The Copyright and Creativity curricula available here were initially developed by the Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe), an education nonprofit founded to promote online safety.