When
teaching students about Copyright laws and Fair Use Acts, it is important for
students to learn how to appropriately share the work they find online (e.g.
avoiding plagiarism). It is also important for students to learn how to protect
their own images, writing, and multimedia creations. Teachers need to demonstrate,
guide, and help students practice appropriate and professional behavior while using
blogs, wiki spaces, google, online research, and much
more. While researching this topic I came across an informative blog post by Ronnie Burt, titled “The
Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons” (2012). Ronnie Burt discusses two simple rules:
Rule #1: You Can’t Use Everything You Find On
the Web
Rule #2: There Are Resources You CAN Use
One
of the resources that Burt discusses is “Creative Commons”. Creative Commons
can be used to display a licensing mark on a blog, image and/or piece of
writing to authorize sharing, reusing, and/or building on the creative works.
Modeling and teaching how to easily use appropriate tools/resources such as
Creative Commons in your own classroom will help prepare students to become
responsible and ethical digital citizens.
Resources:
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