Thing 9: Copywright & Creative Commons

Web 2.0 significantly impacts how we, as educators, teach, and how students learn. While there are many tools available, we must educate students as to how they can appropriately use data or information from the Internet and also what information they should be allowing to be shared/used by others. Oftentimes, students believe that citing sources is only something that they need to do in Language Arts, for example. Or, they may lack the skills to be able to research information and then make it their own by summarizing and using their own words. It is very tempting for students to simply copy what's already out there, but our job is to teach digit citizenship and how and when to cite sources of information.