After many years of saying "someday," I'm finally enrolled in an Educational Technology Master's Program. My current course requires me to keep a journal to document "connectedness" online. Below is my third entry.
According to Common Sense Education (using Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike copyright), here are the definitions of these terms:
COPYRIGHT: A law that protects your control over the creative work you make so that people must get your permission before they copy, share, or perform your work.
CREATIVE COMMONS: A kind of copyright that makes it easier for people to copy, share, and build on your creative work, as long as they give you credit for it.
FAIR USE: The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations (schoolwork and education, news reporting, criticizing or commenting on something, and comedy/parody).
We live in a time when images are all around us and almost effortless to obtain. Almost any look online at social media will bring up dubiously acquired images. Do we know that the artist who created that image has given permission to it being attached to someone else's tweet? No. The tweeter or Facebook poster most likely did not create it themselves, but there is no credit attributed. Most of these images are not copyrighted. We have to assume that they are not trying to steal. We also know that they are not really benefitting from posting the image. Often they have adapted it to use for their purpose of sharing. If we are concerned, we can gently ask, "Did you take that photo? It is beautiful!" to make them aware of what they are using. Plus, sometimes you can't tell--maybe they did take the photo!
In the classroom, we can teach our students to add the appropriate copyrights to their own work when posting online. We can also teach them to search more carefully, pay attention to copyrights, and make sure to follow the rules of fair use. We can make sure that they give credit to their sources properly and not plagiarise.
Here's a fun Kahoot that I made to share with my classes on the topic. Feel free to use it (or adapt it for your needs)!
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