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“focused on giving children a real voice in the broader, often very adult, discussion of future technologies and real-world problem solving.”

they can teach us not only about their own needs and desires, but also about our own future preferences and how technology might help us solve bigger, global problems

digital natives allow us to see unrestrained possibilities for Web-based developments

The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web. The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user. To achieve the vision of universal access, someone needed to provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the reality of copyright laws. That someone is Creative Commons.

Copyright laws do allow teachers some uses of some copyrighted materials. Fair use guidelines consider: The purpose of the use (educational vs. commercial) The nature of the work (published and fact-based vs. highly creative) The amount of the work used The market effect of the use on the work.

The educational exemption applies if:The copyrighted material is used in a classroom or school library.The material is used as a part of face-to-face instruction with students. A teacher must be in charge and the material must relate directly to the subject being taught. The amount of the work used is only as much as is required for this lesson.The material must be legally acquired. (Purchased, rented, or borrowed from a library.)

Decide on relevant standards and benchmarks Decide if multimedia is appropriate Decide which learning outcomes are desired Decide on appropriate assessment measures

DECIDE

Inventory available hardware and software Determine the grouping strategy and roles Specify length/duration of activity Design a lesson/unit plan with a multimedia activity

Educators, without regard to or knowledge of copyright restrictions, sometimes duplicate materials illegally or load software without license. Such copying, seemingly convenient and unnoticeable, is, in fact, stealing.

Copying and using selected parts of copyrighted works for specific educational purposes qualifies as fair use

I think Ambient's growth rates beyond 2013 may be a little high, but I revised my view that learning at home will plateau at or below 10%.  With parent co-ops and microschools, an informal extension of friends and family, and early learning and care (learning predominantly at home supported by full or part time online enrollment in an online school or at least significant use of informal online learning resources) could approach or even exceed 9 million students or close to 15% of the P-12 population by 2020.

The commons can be defined as those things we hold in common as a people. The National Park system is one example of the commons, so are the state parks.

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