This was a rather dry chapter albeit an important one. It starts off with examples of excuses people give or use for illegally copying software, then lists copyright rules which would be a good resourch to have on hand. More importantly, it next gives examples of schools and teachers who have set ethical standards successfully in their environment. I thought a very good point was the Consideration #3 which states that this issue is not going to go away and the future will only provide more and more things to copy. . . . not something we can stick our heads in the sand about. The page on plagiarism websites was very amazing to think how blatent some of them are. The strategies for teachers to help keep tabs on papers students need to write was helpful. Actually, it’s what we as elementary teachers have always done i.e. keep topics specific periodic checking of progress, posting students’ work. The question and answer format at the end of the chapter was user-friendly, but again would be something to keep on hand as a reference. Finally, the last page on MP3 files and P2P sites was confusing probably because I’m not as familiar with those.
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