Blog #3

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    Copyright and fair use are both intensely important in our modern day technology based environment. As a Kindergarten teacher, I would start with having my students create a painting of something that is important to them. This will create in my students a sense of ownership and connection to their creation. Then, I would have the students give their art piece to another student, and have them recreate the other student's piece. I would then have the students talk about how they feel when someone recreates their work. Are the other students stealing your work? Do you feel proud that someone tried to recreate something you made? And through that, I would then explain fair use, and how you can copyright your work, to save it from being used by others, if you wish. I personally think that Copyright and Fair Use are important to my own work, as I am very emotionally attached to my art work. If I were to post my art online, I would definitely be scared of AI taking my art and using them in their engines, and I am also terrified of someone taking my art and saying it was theirs. 

    I think about Academic Dishonesty a lot, especially as I am currently in college, and the use of ChatGPT and other AI engines have become so prevalent in our day to day. Although currently, I find it hard to imagine Kindergarteners using ChatGPT to cheat, I have no idea what the future holds for technological advancement in that area. However, I could see in older classes academic dishonesty being a fundamental issue through the use of AI and Sparknotes. Implementing opinion based and strategic measures such as text-based citing in their responses would aid to diminish the ability be dishonest. Having in depth discussions with your students about the information that they learned will also help the teacher understand which students are actually doing their work versus cheating. Get in contact with the students that you think may be cheating, and work with them to form a mutual understanding that cheating will only hurt them. Help them and supplement their learning so that they want to actually complete their assignments by themselves.

    The Newsletter Design taught me many things about myself, a) I will never be making a Newsletter in MS Word again, and b) I do not understand color theory. I tried a few different color schemes, but they all looked so ugly to me, and I couldn't get the NL to look the way I wanted it to look just by using MS Word and my knowledge of it.  My husband is a graphic designer, and has offered so many times to help me make class materials. I think however, that I will soon ask him how to make assets for my assignments and future Newsletters, as I find NLs to be very helpful and affective.