Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

I'm pleased to announce that the first version of Lawrence Lessig's keynote presentation from the TLT Symposium is now available. Eventually, we will also have a higher quality version of this presentation that shows his slides with a voice-over.

In this presentation, he discusses the tension between the way copyright law is interpreted for digital media and the way young people are trying to use existing media to create new forms of expression. [No description will do it justice. You really have to listen to the way he presents his argument. He's brilliant.]

Lawrence Lessig Keynote

Lawrence Lessig Speech

Stories

Enabling Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age & Your Role

• Writing is a democratic practice - all should/can do it.
• 9-college writing - why do we do what we do?
• Most writing produced here is crap - but kids learn here. How hard it is to write, the complexity. It teaches them the value of creativity.

"Quoting" in writing. We take, use, build upon - without the author's permission.

Imagine if we asked the author for permission to quote? Crazy. This points out the democracy of writing - it's by all, for all.

Masses vs. the Elite