Blog Post #3
Copyright is a legal bound that gives creators absolute control and rights over their own work. This denies others access to reproduce or use these works without the creator's permission. Fair use, however, gives a limited exception to use these works in certain cases. As a teacher, I feel it is important to educate students about both of these. In cases of developing my own instructional material, I would advise students that fair use applies. For example, they can use my instructional material for learning, but may not claim it as their own. As for students creating their own works, I would advise them that there is reward in creating something yourself and that copying others works is not only harming the creator, but themselves, by hindering their critical thinking. The technology implementation issues I chose are academic dishonesty and cyberbullying. In order to prohibit academic dishonesty, I would put in place preventative measu...