You Saved the Best video for last in my opinion!
Larry Lessig’s video was probably the highlight of all the videos that I watched. It helped really drive home how all this is affecting our students, the people of the future. I especially how he drove home the change in the way we live and learn. For example, “We watched television, they create.” He makes some very poignant remarks that are funny but so true. He talks about how we can’t go back, but yet we need to embrace the technology and the opportunities that the students are giving, and that we need to do better for them (being the students).
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We, as parents and educators, need to educate more on copyright laws, but yet we need to encourage and foster a working creative environment for our students. We want them to succeed in all that they do and therefore should not allow them to remain stagnant but yet to build, compose, and create materials that they will take pride in and that will add value to the future of this world. I personally love the TED videos and have not yet seen one that I found boring or not interesting. I love to share these with my coworkers too.
Britni,
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of how we as educators need to work more on educating our students about the copyright laws. I believe that we do not teach them enough about these laws. Students often just copy and paste and have no clue that they are taking someone's else's hard work and making it their own. That to me is just laziness. We need to work harder on trying to create a suficient learning environment. I also agree with you that the TED videos are excellent. I have really enjoyed all them that I have seen.
You hit on some important ideas. Our students and children will create based on former works and if we don't work to re-legalize what is the normal process of becoming an artist, to be inspired and to copy from the masters and then to re-interpret and make something new, then we will have failed in our generation's prohibition.
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