Copyright and Fair Use for Teachers
Jessica Steffel
05/15/2010
Intended audience: K-2 Classroom teachers
Objectives and Goals:
Teachers will examine current and past practices of their use of copyrighted works.
Teachers will understand and apply fair use in their classrooms in the future.
Anticipatory Set (15 minutes):
Teachers will be introduced to the concept of fair use by watching the YouTube video called A Fairy Use Tale. This 10:14 long video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
The video uses Disney clips from movies to explain the idea of copyright and fair use, without breaking the fair use guidelines itself.
Direct Instruction (10 minutes):
Tech&Learning, in association with Hal Davison, has created a copyright and fair use chart for teachers. Each teacher will receive a laminated poster of it as well as a binder version to keep in their lesson planning binder. I will introduce the chart and explain how to use it.
Guided Practice (10 minutes):
I will give two examples of things that teachers often think of as fair use that really are not: teachers that do poems of the week and copy them for all students are going beyond the “9 per semester” rule. Also, children are sometimes shown a full-length movie as a reward, which does not follow fair use guidelines, which require that it be educational, not entertainment. I will ask teachers to find the guidelines for these uses on the chart and discuss their thoughts about it. The group will discuss what is fair for those instances and what we could do in the future to ensure we are using any of those works fairly, if we use them at all.
Independent Practice (20-30 minutes):
In grade level groups, teachers will create a list of 5-10 copyrighted works that they have used in the past and circle ‘yes or no’ to indicate if it can be used again based on this new knowledge of fair use. If they circle a no for any item, they will be asked to make a comment about why it isn’t fair use. They should also indicate whether and how they could use the work fairly in the future.
Assessment and Closure (10 minutes):
Groups will be asked to debrief after the group discussions. Groups can share any interesting or surprising findings. At the end, I will charge them to
05/15/2010
Intended audience: K-2 Classroom teachers
Objectives and Goals:
Teachers will examine current and past practices of their use of copyrighted works.
Teachers will understand and apply fair use in their classrooms in the future.
Anticipatory Set (15 minutes):
Teachers will be introduced to the concept of fair use by watching the YouTube video called A Fairy Use Tale. This 10:14 long video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
The video uses Disney clips from movies to explain the idea of copyright and fair use, without breaking the fair use guidelines itself.
Direct Instruction (10 minutes):
Tech&Learning, in association with Hal Davison, has created a copyright and fair use chart for teachers. Each teacher will receive a laminated poster of it as well as a binder version to keep in their lesson planning binder. I will introduce the chart and explain how to use it.
Guided Practice (10 minutes):
I will give two examples of things that teachers often think of as fair use that really are not: teachers that do poems of the week and copy them for all students are going beyond the “9 per semester” rule. Also, children are sometimes shown a full-length movie as a reward, which does not follow fair use guidelines, which require that it be educational, not entertainment. I will ask teachers to find the guidelines for these uses on the chart and discuss their thoughts about it. The group will discuss what is fair for those instances and what we could do in the future to ensure we are using any of those works fairly, if we use them at all.
Independent Practice (20-30 minutes):
In grade level groups, teachers will create a list of 5-10 copyrighted works that they have used in the past and circle ‘yes or no’ to indicate if it can be used again based on this new knowledge of fair use. If they circle a no for any item, they will be asked to make a comment about why it isn’t fair use. They should also indicate whether and how they could use the work fairly in the future.
Assessment and Closure (10 minutes):
Groups will be asked to debrief after the group discussions. Groups can share any interesting or surprising findings. At the end, I will charge them to
- Use the guidelines
- Look at it as an opportunity to model the right thing for our students.
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