Teaching students about plagiarism, creative commons licensing, and how to find, download and cite copyright-friendly images for research projects is an important part of what school librarians do :
Finding good images for student projects is complex not only because the pictures need to be copyright-friendly, but because image sources are not always appropriate for elementary student use. For instance, Pixabay users must be 16+ and Unsplash and Pexels 13+. Our school district flat out blocks some image sources such as Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons. And then there is the step of explaining how to cite the source! How do I address images, copyright and creative commons in my school? First, I sometimes build the students' background knowledge with the following YouTube videos: Next, because students usually go to Google for their images, I demonstrate how Google images can be sorted by license. It seems good for them to know how to do this. However, Google is still not a great source of images for students because often the websites which are the sources of the images on Google (e.g., Pixabay) are blocked, making it impossible to download the image or create a robust attribution. Sometimes we take screenshots of the images from the Google images page and use the link found in the "share" feature for a jury-rigged attribution. I figure it shows a good-faith effort and does point back to the original source. The best source for creative commons license images that I have found is Wikipedia (not Wikimedia Commons since that is blocked). I can tell the students with confidence that the images used there are creative commons licensed and expect that the images will be appropriate for their consumption. Best of all, Wikipedia makes it easy to download an image and attribute the source. When teaching on sources of copyright-friendly images, I usually push out a list in my Google classroom of the following places students can look for images. (FactCite, a subscription database, explicitly grants students permission to use their images for class projects with proper attribution.)
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