Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning (Science)

Leveraging Emerging Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning Technologies for Learning

(Science)(Science)Copyright October 2012. Presentation by Kimberly Lightle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Information and links from today’s presentation can be found at: http://slidesha.re/Prd3bP

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AgendaAgenda• Three E’s of Education – Enabled, Engaged,

Empowered• Personal Information Management (Finding and

Refinding Information)• Creating and Creating without Breaking the Law• Connecting and Sharing (Growing professionally)

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ENABLED, ENGAGED, AND EMPOWERED STUDENTS

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Social Media Revolution Social Media Revolution (Refresh) (Refresh)

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Learning YesterdayLearning Yesterday

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Learning TodayLearning Today

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Contributed to a blog?

Used a wiki?

Viewed a video on YouTube?

Downloaded a podcast?

Shared your bookmarks?

Used a social networking site?

Tweeted?

Social Media Technologies

Have you ever…. Yes No

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TPACK Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

• BDT isn't about the tools or technologies -- it is about using these to facilitate learning

• Pyramid (pay attention to CC license)

Frameworks for Integrating Technology

Image from http://tpack.org/

- www.msteacher2.orgAnderson, L.W., and D. Krathwohl (Eds.) (2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing: a Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Longman, New York.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy

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Tools

Adapted from Churches, Andrew. Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy. Educational Origami. 30 January 2009. < http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy >.

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What do we want students to do with online resources and applications?

Level of Engagement

Find a website

Ask a question

Create a digital storyRun a simulation

Post to blog

Edit a wiki page

Collect and share data withstudents around the world

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FINDING (AND REFINDING) RESOURCES

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Definition of Personal Information Management (PIM)

Activities you perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve, and use information

• Paper-based and digital information• To complete tasks• In our various roles• For you • AND about you (How are you managing the

personal information other people have about you?)

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PIM in the Material WorldAre you a hunter?

Are you a gatherer?

Do you have a guilt pile?

An Engineer's Desk. Image courtesy of camknows, Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/camknows/3821001012/

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PIM in the Digital World

• Where are my Personal Information Management spaces?

– iGoogle Homepage via RSSRSS– Google Drive (Google docs)– Email (Feedburner and Folders)– Folders on my desktop (but I’m tethered to one machine

– ConnectPC)– DropBox– Twitter– Diigo– Wiki

• Where are yours? Which ones allow you to share or be part of a community?

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http://ohiorc.org

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MSP2 Wiki

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Digital Libraries, Search Engines

• Digital Libraries– Ohio Resource Center – preK-12, math, science, ELA, social studies

(can just search for assessments using Advance Search)– Thinkfinity – Content Partners– Teachers Domain– PHet– Middle School Portal 2: Math & Science Pathways (search Tab)– National Science Digital Library (multiple collections)

• Search Engines– AllPlus– Sweet Search– Dogpile– Yippy

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CREATING CONTENT

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Copyright, Fair Use, and Right to Reuse

• Copyright– Public Domain

• Fair Use

• Right to Reuse– Creative Commons

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What Can Be Protected?

Section 102 of the 1976 Copyright law lists: • musical works, including any accompanying words • dramatic works, including any accompanying

music • pantomimes and choreography • pictorial, graphic and sculptural works • motion pictures and other audiovisual works • sound recordings • architectural works

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What Can’t Be Protected?

• works already in the Public Domain (information, knowledge, discoveries, and artistic creations never or no longer protected by copyright)

• those works not fixed in a tangible medium such as ideas

• facts • works of the U.S. Government produced by

government employees

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Copyright is Automatic

Copyright is the rulerule, rather than the exception.

Materials are copyright protected instantlyinstantly. The creator or author must do somethingdo something in

order to not have copyright protection.

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How do you know when something is in the Public Domain?

• Anything published prior to 1923 • Anything published between 1923 & 1978 without a

copyright notice • Between 1978 and 1 March, 1989:

– various conditions apply • After 1 March 1989:

– 70 years after death of author – If corporate, or anonymous authorship, either 95 years

from date of first publication, or 120 years from the date of creation, whichever comes first

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Copyright Law Exemption – Fair Use

As defined in Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act, fair use is a defense against charges of copyright infringement determined through the analysis and application of the four four fair use factorsfair use factors:

the purposepurpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

the naturenature of the copyrighted work; the amountamount and substantiality of the portion used in relation

to the copyrighted work as a whole; the effecteffect of the use upon the potential market for or value

of the copyrighted work.

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How do you determine whether Fair Use applies?

Free tools• Fair Use Evaluator: http://www.librarycopyright.net/fairuse/

• Fair Use Checklist: http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/files/2009/10/fairusechecklist.pdf

• Thinking Through Fair Use: http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairthoughts

Fair use frequently functions as an exemptionexemption to the copyright law for educational and socially important purposes such as teaching, research, criticism, commentary, parody, and news reporting.

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What if your use is outside the limits of fair use?

1. Obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.

2. Reconsider your intended use.

You could also try to find comparable works in the public domainpublic domain or Creative CommonsCreative Commons works that would meet your purpose.

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Creative Commons

• Simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work.

• Every CC license helps creators to retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work — at least non-commercially.

http://creativecommons.org/choose/http://search.creativecommons.org/

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Search for Images

• Creative Commons is a meta-search – you can search Flickr, Fotopedia, Google, YouTube, etc.

• Search.USA.gov is the U.S. government’s official search engine. It is a comprehensive, searchable index of about 50 million pages from federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal websites.

http://search.creativecommons.org/http://search.usa.gov/imageshttp://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/06/9-places-to-find-creative-commons.html

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Licensing the Content You Create

• If you don't want anybody to reuse your content you could use this:

– Example: Copyright March 2012 - Kimberly Lightle. All rights reserved.

• Some people do add an additional statement about contacting the author for permission:

– Example: Copyright March 2012 - Kimberly Lightle. All rights reserved. Contact the copyright holder at lightle.16@osu.edu for additional information.

• The easiest and internationally recognized way to indicate how you want your content reused is through a Creative Commons license. Working through this set of questions will help you determine which license you want to use on each piece of content you create - http://creativecommons.org/choose/. This page also provides icons and the html code to embed into your web page.

– Example: Copyright March 2012. Stories for Students by Kimberly Lightle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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CONNECTING AND SHARING

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MSP2 Professional MSP2 Professional Learning Network (PLN)Learning Network (PLN)

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Who do you follow on Twitter? Who do you follow on Twitter? What blogs do you read?What blogs do you read?

I follow…

• @rmbyrne

• @web20classroom

• Wired Science

• NSF Science 360

• Moving at the Speed of Creativity

• And many more…

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Kimberly Lightle, PhDThe Ohio State University

School of Teaching and Learning, EHE

lightle.16@osu.edu