Copyright in Education Field.
The aim of the leaflet is to let teachers and students know how to make reasonable and fair use of copyright works for teaching and learning purposes in appropriate circumstances without violating the law. A new "fair dealing" exemption has been added to the copyright law in order to facilitate teaching. The law applies not only to printed works but also to works online. The objective is to allow teachers and students to make use of reasonable portions of copyright works in a fair manner for teaching and learning in a specified course of study. That course must be endorsed by the Curriculum Development Council or the course involves an assessment of students' ability and skills which leads to an award of qualification. If students make use of some of others' work, they have to cite the source and tell other where they find it. If teachers play a movie which is shown on screen, they cannot do it without any educational reasons nor can they do it just for killing lesson time.
I think many students do not pay attention copyright. It seems perfectly okay for them copy from others' work as long as they can submit the assignment. I have an experience of marking a student's composition and found that I had so many words which I did not know. The reason was because that student copy so many ideas online. Obviously, I knew that he copied the assignment. But when I told him it was not right, he just laughed at it. I think teachers need to emphasize the copyright ordinance to students so that they know the reasons behind. Otherwise, the situation will appear in universities and the education of Hong Kong will finally suffer.
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I did have the same experience and then I failed those students who copied information from the Internet. They won't care if you tell them it is not right to do so. They just care about if they can pass or not. Anyway, we still have to spend more time educating them some important values.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. Copying other's work or idea is kind of common in students' assignments. We teachers do need to tell them the seriousness of this problem. However, settling this problem needs supports from the overall environment.
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