The Information Has Value frame refers to the understanding that information possesses several dimensions of value, including as a commodity, as a means of education, as a means to influence, and as a means of negotiating and understanding the world. The flow of information through systems of production and dissemination is impacted by legal, sociopolitical, and economic interests.
Learning Outcomes:
Students should be
able to…
- apply the four factors of fair use in order to determine the potential use of a copyrighted image in their work.
- explain the value of citing sources in order to effectively use information sources in their writing.
- evaluate a source using specific criteria in order to determine whether it meets their information need.
- Ask students to find a newspaper or popular article on copyright, fair use, open access, and the public domain. Have them write a 1-page opinion piece about how this would affect them in some aspect of their life. Have open discussions about the availability of papers for purchase on the Internet. Use this as a way to open dialogue about the ethical issues of using intellectual property.
- Have students “grade” each other’s works cited page for correct style and completeness of citations as well as appropriateness of sources cited.
- Have students create a bibliography of sources they have used for their projects and explain why they choose each source and how each is relevant to their needs.
Activities related to
knowledge practices:
- Students will have ability to understand that intellectual property is a legal and social construct that varies by culture.
- Students will have the ability to give credit to the original ideas of others through proper attribution and citation.
- Students will have the ability to recognize issues of access or lack of access to information sources.
I loved this blog homework from you Grace especially the cartoon it basically gives a direct description of what constitutes plagiarism and what I also notice through the cartoon is that when we cite the original author not only does it give credibilty to the work itself but also it takes some of the responsibility away from us giving the idea above that all the facts that were taken off the internet was wrong it lifts the burden slightly to be able to correctly cite the source and go back to the source and say but see there I found it as I cited it. Hope I am making sense.
ReplyDeleteDear Grace
ReplyDeleteI think that you need to revisit your activities. I cannot seem to recognise the relationship between each learnign outcome and activity. For example: How does finding a scholarly article whether on Google or in a database teach students about plagiarism?
Your second and third activities also require work.
I agree with Danial, Grace becuase we tendance to copy everything from internet and its does not mean we don,t know that plagiarism is wrong. But however we need to learn how to reference properly and to acknowledge that the work is not our before we caught stealing people ideals.
ReplyDeleteThe issue of copyright and accessibility of information and Bill of Right is other issue. Such much as we have access to information but there are social issue and inequalities. There we people how does not have technological infrastructure and its means there is still a big gap between rich and poor countries. So we say information is a commodity and its have its market consumers. However thanks to open access and that still...