Learning Tech Ethics for the 21st Century

Session Description
The 21st century is presenting educators and students with various technologies that offer opportunities for greater learner interaction and teaching impact. As exciting as these possibilities are, these learning technologies also bring up important ethical questions, such as student privacy, safety, security, digital citizenship, parental supervision, and tech addiction. This session will therefore address the vital need for secondary educators and school administrators (grades 6-12) to have easy and flexible access to an online professional development course, which can focus on addressing highly relevant ethical concerns encountered in the learning tech revolution of today.

Accordingly, this session will present a model for a learning tech ethics course that was developed for professional development on the TalentLMS platform. This presentation will ultimately seek to elucidate the ways in which this online course can provide secondary educators and administrators with pertinent ethical principles and ethical reasoning skills that aim to support cogent ethical decision-making when utilizing technology in classrooms and schools. Therefore, the course’s instructional goals, objectives, strategies, gamification elements, and assessments will be reviewed. In the end, this presentation will highlight the TalentLMS platform’s professional development capabilities, as well as highlight the ultimate goal of this asynchronous course, which is for participants to become confident and competent “learning tech ethicists” who will be able to immediately adapt and implement this course’s ethics lessons and understandings into their professional and personal practice.

Course URL: https://21stcenturytraining.talentlms.com/

Presenter(s)
Ginger Gruters
Ginger Gruters, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, HI

Session Type
LTEC Session
Audience
All Audiences

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Strategies for Promoting Copyright Awareness in Student YouTube Video Projects

Session Description
This session provides a brief overview of copyright issues and awareness strategies pertinent to student YouTube video projects. The information is drawn from the presenter’s research and more than a decade of experience teaching an online YouTube for Educators course. Over the years, students in this course have struggled with confusion over copyright and fair use when creating YouTube video projects that contain media assets downloaded from the internet or acquired from other sources. Copyright and fair use are complex topics and most of us will never be legal experts in this area. However, there are strategies for promoting copyright awareness and ethical practice when acquiring and integrating media created by others in YouTube video projects.

Participants will gain (1) information about copyright and fair use problems that students might encounter when creating YouTube videos and (2) practical strategies to help students become more aware of copyright and how they might identify media assets that can be used in their videos.

The goals for this session are to discuss:

  • A brief history of copyright issues on YouTube and the implications for student video projects.
  • Considerations for ethical acquisition and use of media assets in YouTube videos.
  • Strategies for promoting copyright awareness during student YouTube video projects.
Presenter(s)
Chareen Snelson
Chareen Snelson, Boise State University, ID
Dr. Chareen Snelson is an Associate Professor with the Educational Technology program at Boise State University. She has worked in online education for more than seventeen years having designed and taught a wide variety of graduate-level educational technology courses including media design, leadership, and qualitative research methods. Her scholarly activity has focused on several areas including online learning, educational video production, educational applications of YouTube, and qualitative methods education.
Session Type
20-Minute Session
Audience
All Audiences

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