I found many interesting things through my quiz. I found that my students were fairly knowledgeable on the copyright laws involving video usage and documents. My guess is that these areas have been stressed by teachers through various types of assignments over the years. However, I found that students were not very clear on many other topics.
I found that very few of my students (42%) had any understanding of what Fair Use means. Similarly, students seemed very unclear as to which types of media or information are copyrightable and which types are not. For example, most students did not know if something like a blog post could be copyrighted.
I did not notice any major discrepency between the knowledge of boys and girls on the topic of copyright. However, it did seem that the higher grade levels in our building performed slightly better on the quiz. My guess is that they are getting more exposure to the copyright laws over the years and as a result are performing better.
All in all, I think students have an overall idea of what copyright means and what is wrong and right. However, when it comes to specifics or even terminology about copyright I found that students are fairly unknowledgeable.
2. For this part of the assignment I licensed the website that I made earlier in the course using a Creative Commons license. See image above.
No comments:
Post a Comment