# How Should We Teach Our Students About Copyright and Creativity?

- Link: https://teachercast.net/captivate-podcast/tcp-ep212-copywrite-and-creativity/
- Published: 2020-02-10T05:00:00-05:00
- Author: Jeff Bradbury

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we discuss the importance of helping
our students understand Copyright law and how it can affect the projects that they
work on each day in class.

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## In This Episode We Discuss

 * Why we believe that kids today need to be taught the basics of copyright.It has
   become an essential element of digital literacy. Students may not realize it,
   but copyright and fair use are relevant to online activities they engage in virtually
   every day, both as consumers and creators and both at school and at home.
 * What resources Copyright and Creativity offersA full suite of K-12 resources,
   including lesson plans, lesson slides, learning videos, visual aids, and a professional
   development course for teachers.
 * Available for free.
 * How Copyright and Creativity aims to make these resources engaging and effective
   for kidsBalance — development process took input from all sides, avoided serving
   as propaganda for a particular viewpoint in ongoing debates over copyright policy.
 * Take a positive approach, emphasizing what copyright enables and allows. Avoid
   teaching it as a set of negative and restrictive “thou shalt nots.”
 * Emphasize kids’ own role as creators
 * Provide teachers with videos that walk through the trickiest parts, and with 
   professional development, if they feel they need more background in copyright
   before they’d feel comfortable teaching itVery age appropriate– shorter, wordless
   videos for younger students (K-4) and real world examples of copyright in action
   for older students.
 * Provide practical info about the copyright-related activities kids regularly 
   engage in: acquisition, sharing, and using someone else’s creative work in some
   new creation of their own.

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## About our Guests

### David Sohn

David Sohn is a lawyer and the former General Counsel of the Center for Democracy
and Technology (CDT), a leading online civil liberties group based in Washington
DC. Mr. Sohn led CDT’s Digital Copyright Project, which advocated for balanced and
consumer-friendly copyright policy. Mr. Sohn is currently Director of Copyright 
and Creativity for Ethical Digital Citizens, a project aimed at providing practical
and accessible resources for teaching students about copyright and fair use. [https://www.copyrightandcreativity.org/](https://www.copyrightandcreativity.org/)

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## Explore these Resources

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 * [www.copyrightandcreativity.org](http://www.copyrightandcreativity.org) (login,
   check the RESOURCES tab for lessons and easy to access PD)
 * Link 2
 * Link 3

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