Do students Respect Intellectual property? Copyright 2008

Jennifer attended a conference on copyright. She though all the

material used in school was “fair to use”. After the conference she

realize she had violated the rights of the artist. Ms. Jennifer did some

research on property rights laws for school in Germany. Her students in

the 9th grade did a project about copyrighted material was,” get

permission first“. (International Society For Technology in Education).

Ms. Jennifer introduce issues to her students about the limited knowledge

she know about copyright laws. There are misuse of intellectual property

that compared it to stealing physical objects. The example society give is

a child goes into a store and steal a candy bar. There was no legal action

taking because the child didn’t know what he was doing. Once the police

talked to the child and the child said he was sorry. The law drop the

charges. Jennifer said this is the mind set of people and students. If I get

caught I will be ignore by the law. After the project was done the students

understood the important of getting permission for use of pictures, videos,

and music that they use in public domain. The next year Ms. Janesko had

training on intellectual property rights for all of the teachers. The goals was

to make sure the teacher could teach the students about literacy so the students can make responsible decisions on the use of media

in the classroom projects. The curriculum used was to discuss

identified different types of licenses, ownership issues, and

practiced reviewing projects. The teachers and the students had

more respect for the law. I enjoyed reading this article it was a learning

project for me.



Summary

This article gave you several views on the misuse of intellectual property

right laws used by the schools. Many teachers do not have the training

to help students know the ethic right o the author, video, and any person

material you use that is not yours. You must ask for permission to use

other people work. You can go to jail for not getting permission. Young

people must realize this is a serious problem. This is why Jennifer and the

other wanted you to know the negative consequences for taking credit when

you use someone else work. Children learn through model from teacher and

parents. In this article Jennifer and Tammy gave training on Intellectual

Property Right Laws. These lady started an curriculum to help the students

understand ownership issues, identified different types of licenses, and

practiced reviewing terms of the use agreements. After completing the

project student took copyright issues very serious. This class taught them
to make responsible decisions on legal matter concern the public

domain.

My though Question

If teacher do not clearly understand about copyright issues. How

can they teach the students.

Use of Computer Technology to help students with special needs.

Ted S. Hasselbring, Candyce H. Williams Glaser Vol. 10. No. 2-

Fall/winter 2000. This article give you the roles computer

Technology play in education children with special needs in a classroom.

Children of this generation are called the digital age. Because of the influx

new computer-based technologies that links you to the worldwide culture.

Government officials state that it is very important to have technology in

public school. Many workplaces are using computer on the job. Children

have different kinds of disability. There are one of six students across the

United State do not have traditional education because they are disable.

Some of the disabilities are speech, language impairments to mental

retardation and half having a specific learning disability due to a

psychological disorder. Half the students with problems are males. Most are

in Middle and elementary schools. Some have emotional, social, or

behavioral and academic problem. The federal government mandates that

children with special needs must have a program to help these needs. The

education need is a call least restrictive environment. These children must

be in a regular classroom. Another approach is called full inclusion. The

technological in the classroom help the special need for children to keep up

in class. It help the teacher to be able to communicate better with her students. Research said there are benefits to using computer in

the classroom for special needs of children. Students get skills

and content knowledge from the computer. Teacher use internet,

communication technologies, CD-Rome reference material, and

Multimedia presentation tool site help students with special needs.

The teacher used word processing software to help student with mild

learning problems. Here are some software that help with special

needs students, word prediction software, communication

technologies, Hyperlinks and multimedia environment. There are

technologies for hearing impairment example: video caption and captioned

educational programs. Devices to help students with hearing problems,

hearing aide, frequency modulated audio loops. There are technologies

for students with visual problem are screen reader and Braille note taker

Etc. I enjoyed this article. It gave you information about the computer in the

classroom for regular and special needs students. I learn a lot about all the

technology in the world around use.




This article gave you knowledge about programs that will help people with special needs. There are technologies for hearing impairment example, video caption.

Assistive tech

Thought provoking question.
Is full inclusion fair to the teacher and the children with special needs.

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