Thing #21 Copyright and freedom of information

Some of the more important factors in education are copyright and freedom of information and usage of all forms of media. We do our students a huge disservice in not instructing and instructing and instructing them in these areas. Research is a major portion of all educational processes and we should teach the ethical use of other's work. I am appalled at how easily students cut and paste, never giving a thought to the fact that someone else put time, effort and thought into the piece. Teaching ethical use must begin with knowing about plagiarism and the consequences of plagiarizing work. We are sending students to college without the proper preparation in creating their own research papers. They need to know that at the college level plagerism, improper citation and copyright infringement is cause for expultion at many schools.I like the copyright comic book as a teaching tool, however I doubt that we have the bandwidth capability and the flash player to run the site.