The topic and idea of copyright seems very confusing to me. It hasn’t been something that I have had to worry about in my life thus far. After watching the documentary RiP! Remix Manifesto I realized that I have a very conflicting opinion about the use of copy written music. I do believe that music remixes are an emerging art form, and due to this belief I think that it shouldn’t be copy written if it is used in a way to express creativity. An example of this thought is a Youtuber named David Dobrik who creates these elaborate videos twice a week that showcase crazy moments in his life and in his friend group. They also show all the amazing things that he does for his friends and the community. In his videos, he always includes songs especially in his outro and in result of this, Youtube does not pay David the amount that they are suppose to. Currently he has 15.4 million subscribers and gets paid the same amount as his friends who have 2 million subscribers. Even though this happens, he still continues to add these 15 second song clips in his videos because it is his art, and it completes them. This is the part of copyright that I don’t agree with, if an artist is using a song to create something or to create art with it I don’t think it should be anyone’s place to say no.

The idea of open education though is one that I can get behind. As educators why can’t we share our resources in order to help one another? The way that I see it is that we all have one thing in common, every single one of us; we all want the best for our students. We all want to see them learn and exceed and the best way that us educators can do that is to work together so that we can provide our students with a positive and enriched learning environment.

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So today I had my second EDCI tech class and it went really well! Last class I had a hard time with the instructions and with the set up of my blog post and I unfortunately left class feeling upset. After that experience I took time over the rest of the week to get familiar with the course website and the website that I created for my blog posts and was prepared for class today with all of these websites opened up in my tabs. With this, I felt more confident and was able to take my time through the set up instructions of Trello and even had time to explore the website a little bit which is very encouraging for me!

In class we also discussed the documentary ‘Most Likely To Succeed’ which explored education through a new light, focusing on inquiry based learning. I find this concept of education very intriguing in a way that it focuses on the individual child and their development. In this form of education there are no bells that ring at the end of each class and subjects are not divided into different rooms. Students are not expected and trained to obtain good grades to better prepare them for the SAT and to get into their preferred colleges. This school focuses on life after college and what would benefit students the most such as developing communication techniques, teamwork and collaboration. I fully support these ideas but I also think that it is way ahead of its time. These ideas are very beneficial and could possibly be the new way of education but it is all meaningless unless post secondary changes as well. Grades are so valuable in school and they have been for years, and it is not something that can just change. If post secondary changes, teacher education programs need to change as well to better support and nurture these thoughts and ideas in students then classrooms need to be redesigned to better accommodate student inquiries. If we re-imagine education in this aspect, it is going to be a very long process but you never know what the future holds.