Getting Creative With the Commons
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What’s on the Agenda?
• 21st Century Skills
• Students as Content Creators
• Copyright vs. CC
• A Case Study
• Get Creative
21st Century Skills
Information Literacy Access and Evaluate Information • Access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)• Evaluate information critically and competentlyUse and Manage Information• Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand• Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the
access and use of information
A new type of practice
Evolution rather than revolution
The ultimate architecture of participation
• Web 2.0 emphasizes content creation over content consumption
• Information is liberated from corporative control – i.e. traditional content owners or their intermediaries
• Anyone can create, assemble, organize (tag), locate and share content
Relinquishing control
• Information is meaningless unless it can be remixed and repurposed
As content creators
• Opportunity to construct and organize knowledge • Increasingly independent learners• Active knowledge generators • Manage their own learning experience
The Mother of All Funk Chords
In B Flat
Collaboration empowers students to
• understand questions • develop arguments • share meaning & conclusions • among a community of learners
Increased user contribution
Yields:• Growth of collective intelligence• Re-usable dynamic content
Promotes:• Sense of community• Empowerment & ownership for users
What about Wikipedia?
• Amateur knowledge surpasses professional when the right kind of systems and tools are available
• Invites self-policing, community watchfulness, leading to an evolutionary selection process
Conflict with copyright
• Intellectual property holds will initiate lawsuits against perceived misappropriation
• Simpler tools = easier violation of copyright
New flexible content licensing models
Some rights reserved vs.
All rights reserved
A Case Study
• Jack is a primary school teacher in the Hudson Valley. He wants to find some images he can use in his classes.
What happens when we Remix OER?
Compatibility Chart Terms that can be used for a derivative work or adaptationBY BY-NC BY-NC-
NDBY-NC-
SABY-ND BY-SA
Status of original
work
BY X X X X X X
BY-NC X X X
BY-NC-ND
BY-NC-SA X
BY-ND
BY-SA X
Where do I find resources?
• Google Images• Flickr Creative Commons• Creative Commons Search• CC Licensed Resources
Let’s get creative…
• Create a PowerPoint Presentation with at least 5 slides
• Find CC licensed content • Upload your presentation to slideshare and
license your work