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Lesson Title/Description: A Creator's Responsibility Lesson# | Time Allotted for this Lesson: 49 minute period 20f5 Goals: Objectives: Students will be able to... review real-life decisions they make regarding creative RL7.3 rights and responsibilities L768 -understand piracy and plagiarism and their respective consequences -consider solutions to plagiarism and piracy situations they face while using media ISTE-S Standards: tac, 2a, 2d, 4 Pre-Requisite Knowledge and/or Skills: Knowledge of plagiarism Ability to recognize one’s work from another's work. Materials/E quipment/Supplies/Technology/Preparation: Projector Document Camera ‘Computer with internet (Henry's Story- Mixing Mashups) Discussion Guide copies Creative Commons Worksheet Procedure: Teacher Does Procedure: Students Do. T i m e Motivation/Hook: What is plagiarism? Give two specific examples of plagiarism -Have students share out as needed. Ask students to raise their hands if they have used copyrighted material before. (Everyone should raise their hands). If not, ask students if they have purchased a song using iTunes or similar program, downloaded a video from YouTube, or cut out a magazine picture. Everyone should raise their hands now. How often do you use something of someone else's in a project you made? Used photos in a powerpoint? Information for a report? Video clips for a remix video? Did you acknowledge the original creator? Motivation/Hook: ‘Students respond to the Warm Up prompt and share out as needed Students raise hands as they feel comfortable answering their questions. Students will respond as needed. Activity #1: ‘Ask students to have a blank piece of paper and draw in pencil a picture, They have 3-5 minutes, Next, have students sign their name. Have students exchange papers with a neighbor. Have the neighbor erase the signature and write their own. Now ask students to think about how they feel. Activity #1: Students draw in pencil a picture and sign their name in pencil Exchange with a peer, and sign their own name instead. Think about the consequences. Activity #2: Go over definitions of piracy, plagiarism, and acknowledge on worksheet, Have students create a partner definition/group definition. Then write the teacher's definition. Pass out discussion quide Preface the video (Henry likes music, and he likes to combine pieces of songs to create his own music). Show the video Discuss the video with students Key Ideas’ -there are wrong ways and right ways to use copyrighted work. -not just trouble at school, but its illegal -unethical and disrespectful to the creator of the work to not give them credit Activity #2: Provide working definitions of the vocabulary words Watch the video Discuss video with teacher Activity #3: Assign case studies (1-2) within the A Creator's Responsibilities Discussion Guice packet to table groups. Have students read through the case study that is assigned to their group. Have students go through the “Ask, Acknowledge, Add Value” steps on the first page. After time to discuss their answers, have groups choose a representative to talk to the whole class. ‘Students will discuss their group's advice on their case study. Activity #3: Students are divided by table groups to an assigned case study, Students read through the case study as a group and use the listed protocol to come up with appropriate actions or protocols for the case study. Students will share with the class. ‘Show students the symbols of sharing and copyright. Fill in organizer, Students will keep in binder for the rest of the year. Students will fill in and keep in binder for rest of year. Wrapping Up: Ask the following questions and have students (3-7 students) respond verbally. -Why do you think itis illegal for people to pirate or plagiarize others’ work -Give one example of a way to rework copyrighted material legally (and ethically) Wrapping Up: Students will have think time and provide answers accordingly. Tell me something you learned today. Closure: Closure: Provide assessment and allow students to answer, Students fill out assessment. Meeting Varying Needs of Students: Students are paired in multi-ability groups to encourage conversations and understanding for all students. ‘Check in with groups for understanding and vocabulary understanding Use of video instead of all text Graphic organizer worksheet Assessment 1. Evidence collected from this lesson: Students will answer a three question assessment. ‘Students need to know: = the definition of the vocabulary words = whether an action was legal or illegal when using copyrighted material Sources: Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship Curriculum Elickr Creative Commons page Creative Commons Worksheet ASSESSMENT A Creator’s Responsibilities —— e common Gere Ben downloads songs from a website that doesn’t make you pay for songs that normally cost money to download. What Ben Is doing is called: a) Plunking b) Plagiarism ©) Piracy . Which of the following Is an example of plagiarism? a) Filming your friends acting out a play you wrote, and sharing the video online ‘b) Writing an email ©) Copying parts of an essay you found online into your book report for school Layla designed T-shirts online for her debate team. The design used a copyrighted image. Her friends liked the T-shirt so much that Layla decided to sell it to the public online. Selling the T-shirts online was: a) Legal because Layla designed the T-shirt herself ’b) Mlegal because Layla made a profit from someone else's copyrighted work ) Ilegal because Layla’s friends already have the T-shirts education

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