Since I am asking my students to write blogs for their biology class and they often make presentations with lots of digital images for my class and others, I figure it’s time to draw attention to the legal and ethical issues of intellectual property on the internet. I was wanting to create a short lesson with resources for my students. As a group of teachers from the same school (RIS) we collaborated to create something…
In some ways I consider today’s teenagers to be at the forefront of many exciting things in regards to technology. On the other hand, I worry about them, especially where cyberbullying is concerned.
“I think we are moving rapidly toward the obsolescence and eventual disappearance of a single traditional model and its replacement by others that are hybrids,” Mr. Gil said in a February interview at his home here in northeast Brazil, one day before the start of Carnival. “My personal view is that digital culture brings with it a new idea of intellectual property, and that this new culture of sharing can and should inform government policies.”…