Lesson scenario „Respect copyright”.
Year group: 10- 15
Timing: 45 minutes
Aims:
to become familiar with the definition of copyright,
to make students aware of the eventual consequences of copyright infringement,
to teach students the ways of using copyright protected items in a legal way (on the example
of Creative Commons licences).
Outcomes:
students will become aware of the eventual legal consequences that can be drawn in case of
copyright infringement,
students will study different Creative Commons licences in order to get to know how to reuse
other people’s creativity in a legal way.
Resources:
the handbook “The Web We Want” (Part 6.1 called “What is copyright?”);
Warm up:
Start the lesson with a brainstorm activity. Divide students into groups of 3-4 (you can use Team up
application: http://teamup.aalto.fi/ to form groups). Ask your students to describe in their own words
the definition of copyright. Write the ideas of each group on the board. After completing this task
familiarise students with the definition of copyright. Check together with students to which extent
their descriptions of copyright is similar to the definition that has been presented to them.
Further work:
Present students different kinds of Creative Commons licences and make them aware of the
conditions that must be respected when reusing other people’s creations like: images, videos
or music.
Inform students where they can find content based on Creative Commons licences (enter the
CC search available at: http://search.creativecommons.org/?lang=en) and help them to
understand the separate licenses conditions (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=en)
by presenting them examples of content published under CC licences.
In order to teach students how to look for images that can be legally implemented in their
piece of work, open CC search : http://search.creativecommons.org/?lang=en, choose the
category of searching (for example “etwinning”) and choose “search using” service (in this
scenario I propose to choose Flickr service).
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