eSN Today: 'Fair use' confusion threatens media literacy

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Top News ... 'Fair use' confusion threatens media literacy In too many classrooms across the country, sweaty palms and the fears associated with a call to the principal's office aren't just student afflictions: Educators, especially those who teach media literacy, are experiencing a collective anxiety about what is legal and what is not when using digital images and recordings in their lessons, according to a new report. Media-literacy... | Full Story Around the Web ... Recruiting minorities to science and engineering The Model Institutions for Excellence Program (MIE) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has developed... | Full Story NJ colleges develop emergency warnings Some NJ colleges have systems in place to notify the staff and student body in the case of an emergency. At Brookdale Community College in Middletown, a system is provided by... | Full Story SAP to buy maker of business software SAP, the big German software company, has agreed to buy Business Objects, a leader in the fast-growing market for business intelligence software, for $6.8 billion. The move by SAP... | Full Story More from eSchool News Online ... Illegal downloader ordered to pay $222K Students and other internet users who download or share songs and movies without paying for them have a new reason to reconsider their actions: In the first such case to go to trial... | Full Story Why can't our data just get along? Two organizations that have been promoting interoperability among disparate educational data systems have established a new goal: creating a separate set of standards... | Full Story Sputnik's anniversary sparks reflection With a series of small beeps from a spiky globe 50 years ago today, the world shrank--and humanity's view of Earth and the cosmos expanded. Education, too, was forever... | Full Story Feds tout computerized tests for key skills Computer-based testing can be an effective way to measure so-called "21st-century skills" such as the ability to solve problems and synthesize information, according to... | Full Story Announcements from ed-tech providers ... 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