k-8RolloutDiscussion

My name is Jason Epstein and I am the Director of Educational Media and Technology at an Independent K-8 School. At the conference I spoke about the need for a consistent plan for rolling this out among teachers and students of lower grade students to lay the groundwork for a generation that not only understands fair use, but also one who can use it in a productive way to promote information and use it in a transformative way.

I must admit that I have not had much time to begin working through the Code and supplementary materials, but I feel that the need to begin this discussion is so very important. Not only do people in our demographic need to be consistent with the ways that we train our teachers, but also how those teachers bring the information to our students. We have the charge of not only giving our teachers the tools to understand the information and use it wisely and correctly, but we have to gift these tools to our students as well and show them that finding the information is only part of the puzzle, but that transforming the information and using it productively is not just encouraged, but an ESSENTIAL part of the process.

With my little soap box message, does anybody have suggestions about how to train teachers to both understand the code and to use the materials productively?

RENEE RESPONDS: One of the key ideas in the Code is that every educator is qualified to make a fair use analysis. **We don't need to rely on legal experts to do the reasoning for us.** The knowledge presented in the Code--- and the five principles themselves--- offer plenty of clarity about the principles and limitations involved in assessing whether a particular use is a fair use. Read [|Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning]. Use the outline provided in the Appendix, which gives you everything you need to offer a copyright and fair use presentation yourself.

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