Copyright - have we all been copywrong?

Before reading the article about copyright I had no idea of many of the rules and stipulations, and had never really considered them before. In my mind if I googled it, I could use it. I think that school districts need to do a much better job of educating their staff around copyright issues. Teachers need to know how to teach their students where to find good information and how to access that information appropriately. The implication of this is more training and more consultation with experts. Copyright laws and training would be a great teacher professional development day topic. When teachers are taught how to appropriately find and use information it will be much easier to pass these practices on to their students.

In the digital age, teachers need to be more aware of the information their students use and where it was taken from. Teachers should require not only a bibliography of information used but a list of pictures and other digital media. I feel that teachers now need to be more discerning with what they allow students to use in their classroom and set stricter guidelines around the way in which presentations are done.