By Bruce L. Mann, Ph.D. is from the Faculty of Education, Memorial University, St. John’s,
The better alternative to borrowing educational materials from the Internet that may be well be violating copyright law, the moral rights of the author, and rules of the university, would be to make your own materials. It’ll be good for you and good for them – good for you because it’ll be a testament to your hard work and determination to support your students’ efforts, even at home. It’ll be good for your students as a constant resource for them to learn from at home. Besides you know your students better that any Internet site. Only you can provide your students with real help and guidance. Don’t rely on the Internet to do your job for you. Most educational websites are either too advanced or too game-like anyway for your students and as such won’t serve them well enough to meet your standards.
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