Post 3 - January 30th, 2022

 

    Copyright and Fair Use are inherently 'simple' concepts - copyright is simply the concept of owning an idea or intellectual property, as it's usually referred to as. Fair Use is the concept that intellectual property should be allowed to be innovated and expanded upon by other people without infringing upon the copyright. As a teacher, I feel as though it isn't too difficult to avoid copyright infringement - the only thing that you should really be 'copying' verbatim is a textbook or similar resource, which you would be paying to use in that fashion anyway. As long as you cite the source as where you are receiving your information, and don't pirate the book, it should constitute fair use.

    Technology Implementation Issues are an interesting idea - it's something that my Intro to Education class discussed last semester. In terms of academic dishonesty, there's not really much that you can do to solve this issue, dependent on where the technology is being implemented. An interesting thing that my middle school did that you could implement is link all of the computer screens up to a shared cloud where they are constantly streaming, this way the teacher or exam proctor can constantly see what every laptop in the room is viewing, ergo eliminating cheating, at least in theory. As for another implementation issue, the case of lack of funding, I'm afraid that this is maybe not something that we as teachers can really solve, short of purchasing technology ourselves. Our best shot at increasing funding is rallying alongside parents and other staff to lobby local, state, and national governments to increase public school funding, but that doesn't seem like something most current politicians are really interested in....

    On the topic of my newsletter, I was surprised by how I actually kind of enjoyed creating this. I was anticipating this being something I really, really do not wish to do in the future, and while that's still kind of true (mainly because I find these sorts of newsletters trivial), in the event that I do decide to create one, now I know how. As for things that I would improve about it, I think having a non-made-up theme would help to actually decorate the newsletter, because I can include pictures and drawings by and of students, tying the project together better. In the event that I do end up teaching music, flyers like the one included below (the one I made) would be a frequent occurrence, but if I teach the social sciences I very much doubt that will be the case.