Thing #23

Creative Commons is an important ethical issue that one should definitely understand before modifying anything that they find online.  This “23 Things” assignment takes advantage of Creative commons quite often.  It is easy to find, at the bottom of several posts, attributions like this one:

(originally posted on Explore...Discover...Play: Learning 2.1 and used here under a Creative Commons license)

It is easy to anticipate the usefulness of Creative Commons in the classroom.  First, it seems to be an excellent way to bring the issue of plagiarism into the real-world for our students.  They may not be able to comprehend the ethical wrongness of copying someone’s homework, but they can probably comprehend how it would feel to have their artwork stolen on the internet.  Furthermore, Creative Commons allows students to use resources that they may not have been able to under normal copyright laws.