[senit] Copyright creativity and curriculum

One of the nice things about half term for me (I don't get school holidays

Hi Sally, on Web 2.0, some time back Terry Freedman edited a free
publication exploring some of the ideas and how they can be used in
Education. I think web 2.0 is particularly exciting in SEN as it is
acts as a leveller and enabler.

http://fullmeasure.co.uk/comingofage.htm

Terry is working on version 2.0 of it as well.

Steve Lee

On 20/02/2008, Sally Paveley <sallyp at advisory-unit.org.uk> wrote:
> One of the nice things about half term for me (I don't get school holidays
> but neither do I have to go into schools) is the opportunity to step outside
> the things I have to do and do a bit of gazing at things that have caught my
> attention but failed to make it onto my to do list.
>
> I would like to share a couple of these with you; they are connected I
> think.  The first is a link that I found in last week's Naace Newsletter.
> It caught my attention because PowerPoint was mentioned - and I do lots of
> things with PowerPoint and there is a connection but not yet.  I clicked on
> the link and was treated to a great presentation by Larry Lessig about
> communication and creativity www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs . Do take a
> look if you can.  It got me thinking about many things, one of which was
> something I had heard about but never really looked at - Web 2.
>
> I Googled Web 2 and understood more about what it is.  In his presentation
> Larry was talking about how young people are generating online content by,
> amongst other things, capturing and manipulating content that other people
> have put there and how current copyright legislation is now outdated and
> needs to change.  He was not referring people who copy entire movies, songs
> etc then redistribute them.  He was talking about taking elements from
> different online media and combining, manipulating or changing them in
> creative ways so they become something else entirely.  Web 2 is about people
> becoming participants in online activity rather than observers of it and
> that is what is happening.
>
> That got me thinking about what I, and many others, do when we create
> resources for our pupils to use .  I use Google to find images, I look for
> sound clips and I put them together (often in PowerPoint) with a mild
> concern about copyright.  I had to consider this more seriously when I
> launched The Plasma Screen & Whiteboard Room and have still probably not got
> it absolutely right.  Who is going to do something about getting the law
> changed?
>
> The other question I now have is about what we are teaching our students in
> terms of ICT; the ICT world has moved on considerably in the last few years
> and our teaching should reflect this.  As somebody who teaches ICT I have
> some serious thinking to do but the possibilities are exciting! As a Web 2
> user I don't have to do the thinking in isolation, which is why I am writing
> this.
>
> Looking forward to your responses.
>
> Sally
>
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> Sally Paveley
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