Copyrightchart. Copyright law in teacher education. Presenters: Vicki Napper (vnapper@weber.edu) and Marilyn Lofgreen (mlofgreen@weber.edu) What happens when the chicks haven't heard about copyright laws?
Beginning in the Fall of 2002, an assignment was given for entry level teacher education students to read an overview of copyright law and the exclusion to that law that is known as “fair use” ( and reflect on how those laws will effect them as future teachers. There had been a feeling that all students who had reached the level of junior or senior in college would surely know about copyright laws and fair use of copyrighted materials. However, the results were startling to faculty. With the exception of those students with Secondary Education Majors in media production, no students were aware of the fair use exclusion to copyright laws available to educators and students. What has happened in our educational system that causes these students to be so unfamiliar with copyright laws? Urban school district #1 12,800 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. APA Citation Style Guide, 6th ed. Developed by the American Psychological Association, this style is widely used in the sciences and social sciences.
This guide provides examples of the most commonly cited types of sources used by Williams College students. For additional examples and explanations, consult the print manual at Sawyer or Schow Reference (call number: BF76.7 P83 2010). See also APA Style Blog. Each citation consists of two parts: the in text citation, which provides brief identifying information within the text, and the reference list (list of sources used) which provides full bibliographic information.
How to Format: In Text Citations | Reference Lists How to Format In Text Citations (For more detailed information see Publication Manual Chapter 6, pp 174-179) APA Style gives prominence to the date of a publication. (Austin, 1998) If the author's name is mentioned in the narrative, then only the date need be given: Austin (1998) compared institutional support Two authors.
(Parker & Mokhesi-Parker, 1998) Ethics Issues around Copyright compliance and Fair use guidelines in Teacher Education. Why, in a society rich with information and an exponentially expanding reservoirs of accessible resources, our public educators the least likely to understand how to access and use these materials and the least likely to pass on an awareness of copyright laws to their students?
This should not be a debatable issue; however, I have found this to be true in many of the educational settings I have worked in as well as studied in. Now as faculty in a teacher education program, I am again surprised at the lack of awareness of copyright laws by students entering my program and also at the lack of compliance shown within educational settings they have emerged from.