Creative Commons

1. What are the "affordances" and "constraints of the technology? In other words, what does the technology allow us to do or prevent us from doing? 
    -This technology allows someone to acquire a license for a creative work of theirs and to share their work with a bunch of other people. Unlike a copyright license, Creative Commons allows a person's work to be copied, shared, distributed, and blogged about without the author's permission on grounds that it is not for commercial profit. This is fabulous as it allows that person's work to travel from person to person, and it can gain popularity, which can lead to deals that turn into a profit for the author of the creative work. This is beneficial to students and teachers because they can pull these creative commons dubbed works and use them in projects, speeches, or homework and not have to worry about copyright infringements. 


2. What new skills do we need to teach the students?
     -What we would need to teach the students is the difference between copyright and creative commons, so that they understand what they can pull from the internet into their projects and what they cannot. They still have to give reference to the author of the work, but they don't have to ask the author's permission for their personal usage of it.


3. What will I need to do differently in terms of how I teach in the classroom? How will teaching and learning look different?
     - I don't believe it really effects how a teacher teaches, or how a student learns inside a classroom. It basically just allows the student to understand differences of copyright and creative commons, and then to know what kind of articles/videos/etc can be pulled from the internet and used in their blogs without their getting in trouble.


4. How does the technology help me foster creativity, innovation, and some of the other 21st century skills?
     - It allows for a certain level of creativity and innovation as the students pull creative commons works and interweave them into something or some project of their own design. It also allows students to make their own videos, etc, and obtain a license ensuring their ownership of the video, but at the same time allows them to share their video world wide for the benefit or entertainment of others, without the fear of anyone stealing their work.


5. What are some ways I can use this technology in the classroom?
      - It's not exactly a tool to be used in the classroom, its more of a prop students and teachers can use to gather articles, videos, etc for a specific lesson or project.