Copyright Reflection

I was surprised by how little I knew about copyright laws. I honestly thought there were files considered "free to the public" and others that were copyrighted and therefore were a "look but don't touch" kind of thing. Now I know that even this blog and anything else created is, to a degree, copyrighted. My favorite video in this section was Understanding "Fair Use" in a Digital World. The lesson gets students to starting thinking about how they should and shouldn't use content from an early age. When I was in middle school, the only copyright education I received was pertaining to plagiarism and patents. Now, with smart phones and other access to the internet in every classroom, we as educators have to instruct our students on the now much more complex topic of fair use and copyright.