First of all, I would like to say welcome to my blog! I thought I would introduce myself before delving into my first blog post. My name is Lauren Smith (Miss Smith), and I am a Teacher Candidate at Brock University! One of the course I am taking is a Teaching & Learning with Technology class! I am very excited to be a part of this class, as I believe that technology can play a great role in student learning and engagement, especially since we live in such a technology based world. I am very excited to broaden my knowledge on technology in the classroom, in order to bring this to my future students!
One of the first ideas that we have talked about it copyrighting. Although we have been citing in papers since we were in high school, I think that this idea is still something I could use some help on, especially when it comes to copyrights in the classroom. Very naively, I never really considered how copyrights truly matter in the classroom, and this is something that as a future teacher I need to consider. The internet is a magical place filled with and enormous variety of resource, but those resources are not yours. Someone took the time to make the amazing resources, videos, pictures, and papers that you are using, and you need to give credit where it is due. One thing that I learned from the articles we have reviewed for this class, is that in Canada teachers are able to copy any copyrighted material for an exam or a test, as long as it is not already commercially available . This seems very helpful, considering I need the help with creating tests, and the internet has some amazing educators who have already helped me out with this! Another thing that I never really considered was the use of YouTube videos in classrooms. During my practicum, YouTube videos (among other videos), were something that I loved to use and my class looked forward to. I don’t think that I ever really considered that these videos may have copyright issues that go along with them, and in order to bring them into a classroom this is something that I should be considering.
Ploughmann, L, 2011. At The Computer (image). Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/criminalintent/5403052781/
The main thing, when it comes to copyrights, that I believe we should be teaching students is that although these images, papers, and videos are easy to find, they are not our own. When any of us create art, videos, and papers, we work really hard on our work. Can you imagine someone took the art piece that you worked on for a whole week and claimed it as their own?! What if they put it on their website and did not make any mention of the fact that YOU created it?! I know for me, I would be pretty upset about this. In my practicum, I noticed that for their final social studies/literacy project, I had a few groups of students use information word for word (copy and pasted) from the internet, and put it in their project as if it was their own paragraphs that they had created. As I was reading their projects it was very clear that these students had not written these paragraphs, and sure enough when I typed the first few sentences into Google, it was very apparent that they had just copy and pasted informational paragraphs from various websites into their own project. At first I was very frustrated by this. This is not actually the students work, so how could I even mark it? How did they not understand that this is not okay? That’s when I realized that they are in grade four. There internet is so easily accessible to them, with so much information, but they haven’t quite learned yet that although they found this information, and it is out in the public, it is not their own. I think it is incredibly important for students to learn from a young age about copyrights, especially when it comes to the internet. Students begin using the internet to find information at such as young age, that I think it is absolutely crucial that they learn from this young age the idea of copyrights, and how to properly use information they have found. This can only benefit them as they move through school and researching becomes more prominent in their education.
Available for reuse! Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Technology.jpg
Overall, copyrights are just another aspect of my journey into the teaching profession!
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