Participatory Culture
1. The video was interesting. It was a little hard to follow all the parts or skills that they were trying to talk about. But I think that they should have expanded on what each of the skills were.
2. I believe that some of the topics that were mentioned in the video are things that are common sense. They mentioned technology as a participatory culture. There are the different skills that were mentioned in the video such as affiliations, judgment, networking, and negotiation that they make sound as if it is something new. But in reality it is not. Teenagers are involved in these things. An example would be affiliations; most likely than not, teens become affiliated with a group of individuals that express their likes and dislikes. So I don’t see it as “new skills” but as skills that are emphasized or expanded online.
3. Now as a college student, I have been able to have some of these “skills” in my learning experience. I have an affiliation with blackboard or e-learning which can be used for discussions. The discussions includes experiences with negotiation, networking, and collective intelligence. Negotiation can be expressed because many different students have different views on an issue, therefore it forces me to think outside the box and outside what I think is the right or wrong way of something. Networking because we may be able to explain certain key points better than a teacher can, and collective intelligence because we gather information or explain information for or classes in a way that can be clarified. But as a child, these things were not available to do in a classroom setting and it seemed as a privilege to use a computer in the classroom setting.
4. If I were teaching a health class, I might have students research on a topic and each year, the students who choose to pick a topic that has already been talked about in previous years in my class, would build upon what other students had already found out. This way, they can see thee changes that occur or put a different twist to health issues as the years pass by.
Media Literacy
1. I believe that new literacy media is what students need to know about because it is our future. There is so much information that can be acquired from the internet that can help students become what they want to achieve. And it helps with their jobs. We should be able to teach students skills that may be useful for the workplace.
2. Media literacy education is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages. In media literacy education, students are able to be recipients of information as well as producers of it. It is important for students to be aware of media literacy because it shapes our communities. They should also understand the importance of copyright materials and avoid things such a plagiarism when using the information that they can access online. They also should know that the information they find is placed online for a purpose and that they may express different beliefs and opinions.
3. Fair use is the right to use copyright material without the author’s permission. It is a user’s right. Fair use is important in education because it allows for cultural materials to become critical to generate a new culture.
Attribution- This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.
Attribution Share Alike- This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial reasons, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution No Derivatives- This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
Attribution Non-commercial- This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike- This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work.
Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives- This license is often called the “free advertising” license because it allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
4. Like the video mentioned, I think that it is an easy way to protect your work and share it with others. If you really want to be strict and not allowed changes you can do that or if you want to expand on an idea you can have people add on to it a revise and eventually make it better. I really like their licensing programs and I’m considering using it myself for when I post my personal pictures or files online.
5. Flickr might be used in my classroom to show visual aids of a certain topic or for the students to look for pictures or videos that may be related to an assignment. In an art class, it can be used to show the steps to certain type of technique used in the classroom. And the best part of it is that they are using a legal way to share photos with their peers.
