Copyright

The focus of this week's class is on copyright issues. How can teachers become informed about how copyright issues affect them as well as teach their students about copyright?

Here are three things I learned that will be helpful for me as a teacher, the first being the most important for me to teach my students:

1. I did not know that any student-created works are protected by copyright! Whether it is an art piece, an essay, or a video, students' works are protected. For students to know that their work is protected and belongs to them is invaluable and it is something that every teacher should know and should teach their students.

2. I did not know that every image found online has some sort of copyright laws attached to it and it may not be legal for me to use in the classroom. Being informed about how to properly find and cite images is extremely important for my own professionalism as well as for being an example to my students.

3. The third point I learned this week is that teachers are allowed to turn on a radio or television for the students to listen and watch as long as it is fulfilling an educational purpose and must be primarily for the students. This is great as radios and televisions are fantastic resources for classrooms!

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