Digizen Badge & What I Learned About Copyright

In today’s highly technical society, it is exceptionally easy to grab information off of the internet, but crediting who has the rights to this information, is extremely important. The use of any copyright protected work is completely illegal, unless there has been granted rights for use, proper citation/credit has been given, or permission has been granted by the copyright act. Most importantly, as a future educator, I want my students to be explicitly aware of what they can and cannot do on the internet in regards to copyright. An example of this would be providing them with the instances that using material from the internet is allowed, so long as it is publicly available with use of a proper citation. I would also provide links and resources for my students to use, when they are unsure of what they can do with information on the internet and what they can’t. I will also encourage individually creating images and various means of media/technology, so the student’s own work has been used by only them, and can be copyrighted as well.

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