Comments on: Four Essential Questions That Need Answers http://vvrotny.org/2007/07/15/four-essential-questions-that-need-answers/ Thoughts and Reflections from Vinnie Vrotny Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:53:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Repeat – Four Questions that Need Answers | Multi-faceted Refractions http://vvrotny.org/2007/07/15/four-essential-questions-that-need-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-833 Repeat – Four Questions that Need Answers | Multi-faceted Refractions Mon, 16 May 2011 17:27:30 +0000 http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/2007/07/15/four-essential-questions-that-need-answers/#comment-833 [...] In this post, I am going to update my reflections from a post I wrote in July 2007 – Four Essential Questions that Need Answers [...] [...] In this post, I am going to update my reflections from a post I wrote in July 2007 – Four Essential Questions that Need Answers [...]

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]]> By: Rob Darrow http://vvrotny.org/2007/07/15/four-essential-questions-that-need-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Rob Darrow Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:20:56 +0000 http://vvrotny.edublogs.org/2007/07/15/four-essential-questions-that-need-answers/#comment-390 Great questions. The problem I have with the questions is that people keep asking them in a way that suggests that there is a "yes" or "no" answer. And the answer is always "it is my intellectual property, so no, you can't have it." And, that is always the end of the answer, especially in regards to people in the university realm. In response to your first question about intellectual property and the idea kernel. Seems to me that if the idea kernel needs to remain with the originator, that this is in conflict with Web 2.0 ideals. I think that if people are concerned about their "intellectual property" that it needs to be published in print form. Otherwise, it should be considered as shared knowledge. Now, don't get me wrong, I think the originator should be credited with the original idea. However, in this world, how many of us really have original ideas? Most of our ideas in education are the sum total of what we have read or learned from others. When I was the library media teacher at a school (www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/alta) that implemented a laptop program, I wrote step by step guides for teachers to use with students. Since I wrote them on "school" time, I always felt they belonged to the school and therefore were free to all. As I have overseen the development of online courses (www.cusd.com/calonline), the same applied - we paid teachers to develop courses, so they belong to the school district, and therefore, are free to share. I am now the project director of a Teaching American History grant (www.cusd.com/tah2) and everything a professor shares or a teacher develops should be free to share because it is funded through a federal grant. Some grant participants don't agree with this perspective. It just seems to me that either we share or we don't...so, I guess there is a "yes" or "no" answer... if we want to share what we are learning via blogs or podcasts or social networking sites, the answer is "yes", all that is shared through this medium should belong to all of us, with proper credit given to the person or place where the idea came from. P.S. I enjoyed your NECC podcast via Educational Bridges Network, 21st Century Learning! Great questions. The problem I have with the questions is that people keep asking them in a way that suggests that there is a “yes” or “no” answer. And the answer is always “it is my intellectual property, so no, you can’t have it.” And, that is always the end of the answer, especially in regards to people in the university realm. In response to your first question about intellectual property and the idea kernel. Seems to me that if the idea kernel needs to remain with the originator, that this is in conflict with Web 2.0 ideals. I think that if people are concerned about their “intellectual property” that it needs to be published in print form. Otherwise, it should be considered as shared knowledge. Now, don’t get me wrong, I think the originator should be credited with the original idea. However, in this world, how many of us really have original ideas? Most of our ideas in education are the sum total of what we have read or learned from others. When I was the library media teacher at a school (www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/alta) that implemented a laptop program, I wrote step by step guides for teachers to use with students. Since I wrote them on “school” time, I always felt they belonged to the school and therefore were free to all. As I have overseen the development of online courses (www.cusd.com/calonline), the same applied – we paid teachers to develop courses, so they belong to the school district, and therefore, are free to share.

I am now the project director of a Teaching American History grant (www.cusd.com/tah2) and everything a professor shares or a teacher develops should be free to share because it is funded through a federal grant. Some grant participants don’t agree with this perspective.

It just seems to me that either we share or we don’t…so, I guess there is a “yes” or “no” answer… if we want to share what we are learning via blogs or podcasts or social networking sites, the answer is “yes”, all that is shared through this medium should belong to all of us, with proper credit given to the person or place where the idea came from.

P.S. I enjoyed your NECC podcast via Educational Bridges Network, 21st Century Learning!

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