Issues with Educational Technologies

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ISSUES WITH

EDUCATIONAL

TECHNOLOGIES

Casey Roehrich

Social: Security

• Protecting the technology in schools from thieves

• Extra security for rooms with technologies

• Makes teachers responsible for technologies in their room

• Vandalizing computers or other technology

• Making rules for computer labs

Ethical: Plagiarism and Privacy

• Technology makes cheating or plagiarizing much more accessible

• Teachers become responsible for protecting the children’s identities while using the internet

Legal: Copyright/Fair Use

• Copyright- term used to describe protections given to authors, musicians, artists, and others who create products from their original work.

• Current copyright laws were written in 1976

• Educators rely on various resources they find.

• Teachers can use small portions of copyrighted works without obtaining permission

• Fair use- People can commit minor violations of the copyright laws if they are doing so for criticism, comments, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.

Legal: Copyright/Fair Use Continued

Examples of what can be copied:

A chapter from a book (never the entire book)

An article from a periodical or newspaper

A short story, essay, or poem. One work is the norm, whether it comes from an individual work or an anthology

A chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon or picture from a book, periodical, or newspaper

Poetry: Multiple copies of a poem of 250 words or less that exist on two pages or less, or 250 words from a longer poem

Prose: Multiple copies of an article, story, or essay that has 2,500 words or less; or excerpts up to 1,000 words or 10 percent of the total work, whichever is less

Illustrations: Multiple copies of a chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon, or picture contained in a book or periodical issue

Resources

• http://www.copyright.gov

• http://integratetech.net/issues#cop_fair_use

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