Relection #7

What? I am learning about the importance of copyrights. For this assignment we are more aware of all the copyrights out there. I am able to copyright my own work through Creative Commons.

So What? This means to me as a teacher the importance of copyrights. To know not to use something when it is not copyrighted. Also it will be beneficial for me to copyright my work so someone does not steal my creations. We are doing this to be more educated in copyrights and also to one day teach our own students about copyrights. At a very young age several students plagiarize, but if we teach them about copyright sooner the numbers will hopefully decrease. When working with colleagues copyright is essential say if you were working on a unit and you did not copyright your work and a colleague used your work. They now have all the credit for the work that you did. You need to be aware of copyright. That is why there is great information out there and websites that will help you know what you can use such as creative commons.

Now What? The technology means a lot to my future students. They need to learn at a young age what copyright is and how it works. If they learn at a young age we will have less problems with copyright, as they get older. This day in our society everyone uses everyone’s work from downloading music, images or downloading papers and more it is all accessible with one simple click. I would hope that this will change me as a future teacher by letting my students know that you cant steal from other people. An assignment we can do with copyright is doing an introduction to it for example; I could assign a topic and have the student’s research on the internet on a specific site then come back to class and share. Then I would go through and see who plagiarized and begin telling about copyright. This will help me become a better teacher by teaching my students at a young age and hopefully what I teach them will have an effect on them, as they grow older. Also I will be able to learn more about copyright myself. This will help me become a better colleague by knowing whose work is who’s as well as having my colleagues know what work I have done.