Blog Post #3
Copyright and Technological Implementation Issues
Copyright and Technology in the Classroom
Copyright laws are obviously very necessary, but they may prove challenging to navigate around for teachers. The first thing I think about when copyright laws are brought up is the fact that the first iteration of Mickey Mouse's copyright has expired, which brings me to the quasi solution for teachers and copyright, public domain and fair use. Anything within public domain is free for anyone's use, so teachers and students are able to use them for anything they need to or want to. Fair use however is more restrictive and subjective, so teachers and students should be weary when resorting to this law.
Technological Implementation Issues
As technology gets implemented into the classroom, there is bound to be some issues with this transition. One such issue is decreased productivity within the classroom. Students are often more tech-savvy than their educators and find ways around having to do assignments. A way teachers could work around this is installing parental control on school-owned technology so they can both control what the students have access and monitor what they are doing while they use the school-owned technology.
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