1. What is the difference between Media in Education vs Media Literacy Education
2. What social bargain is at the heart of Fair use?
3. Why is Fair Use more important today? Fair use is more important today because more technology is being used in the classroom for educational purposes than before. Digital media is more acceptable to us than it has ever been.
4. What are the two key questions judges use to determine Fair Use? Does is change the content? Is it for an educational use?
5. A teacher shows a movie of The Lion King and asks student to notice how the animals in the movie reflect racial stereotypes? Is this Fair Use? Why? Yes, because this is being used to teach children. They are using something they are interrested in to relate to a lesson they are learning.
6. Which principle relates most strongly to the digital story you created in class? Explain. Fair use. We are using the potentially copyrighted music and photos to tell an educational story.
7. Are there limitations to the amount of pictures, length of music, or video that can be used in a multimedia project? It is to be a small portion.
8. Do you need to request permission from the original creator in order to use copyrighted material in multimedia project for school related assignment? You should not have to if it fits in the confines of Fair Use.
9. Should educators try to change the policies in their school in they are not in line with Fair Use doctrine? Yes, the students and teachers deserve to be able to use all the technological advances that they can. If administrators educated themselves on the laws, they should have no problem in letting the educator teach a lesson as long as it complies with Fair Use.
10. What common myth about Fair Use surprised you the most? I did not know that you were allowed to use copyrighted material as long as it was for educational use. I thought that it was just always off limits with out permission, no matter what.