Competency 3

3. Demonstrate the ability to address issues of:

    • intellectual property rights, copyright, and licensing AND
    • privacy and security of students and resources

Standards addressed

  • DPI 1902 standards:
    • 4.k: Model, apply and teach responsible, safe, legal, and ethical use of information, technology, and resources.
    • 4.m: Recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world, and act and model in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical.
    • 4.n: Demonstrate knowledge of student data privacy through their role as instructional leaders.
  • AASL: 3.1
  • ISTE for Educators:
    • 3. Citizen

Evidence

Copyright and Fair Use: I have conducted several workshops for other educators on copyright, including one that dealt specifically with copyright and online teaching. The webpage that accompanies the workshop provides additional resources. To assess understanding of these concepts, I created a Google Forms quiz that can be graded using Flubaroo. I also had students create a mindmap of the concepts covered in class.

Identity and Privacy: I created a website to accompany a series of lessons for high school juniors and seniors on online identity and privacy.

Reflection

These are constantly evolving topics and require attention to changes in both the law and interpretations of the law. Protecting intellectual property rights of content creators and of students themselves is an important role for librarians. This is a topic that should be addressed from elementary school on.

For teachers, the idea of Creative Commons resources and public domain / CC0 resources is one that should be covered in professional development. Other areas that should be covered with teachers are the concepts of fair use, classroom copying, use of copyrighted materials in distance education, and what is legal to do in a remix culture.

Another topic that fits into this area is the use of Open Education Resources. As librarians help students locate resources to help specific students learn, they use OER resources from sites such as Kahn Academy, Crash Course, OER Commons, OpenEd, and PBS Learning Media.

Online identity management is important for both teachers and students. Teachers need to understand what they should and should not be doing online themselves as well as what is legal for their students to use, particularly for students under 13, who are covered by COPPA. Students need to understand how to manage their online profiles and protect their privacy.

There is a wide range of useful resources on all these topics at: