Chapter
5- Researching and Evaluation Internet Information
Focus Question-
How can teachers respond to problems of plagiarism when students use online
sources?
As everyone is
taught, plagiarism is bad; you can’t copy and paste someone else’s work as your
own. As a student I can say I am so sick
of hearing that, we know it is bad. But I
can also say as a future teacher, I think a lot of the plagiarism comes back to
us as teachers. We say it is bad and not
to do it, but we don’t teach students how to site the source or use someone
else’s work. In today’s world there are
so many places to buy term papers, or mini essays from. All anyone has to do is a Google search of
what topic he or she are writing about and it pops up. There are also so many types of resources to
stop plagiarism, like Turn-it-In. They
tell you was percent of your paper was plagiarized. I think that a lot of the responsibility
comes back to the teacher to be assigning work that couldn’t be
plagiarized.
Tech Tool- Flickr
Flickr is such a
cool website. It’s an online photo sharing and storage tool. Flickr allows you to upload pictures and then
share them with other Flickr members.
Flickr is a free account that anyone can create. I think teachers could use Flickr for classroom
pictures. By creating an album that you
allow any parents of the students to see they could download the pictures of
the class to their computers and then have them right away.
Summary-
In the book it
talks about plagiarizes and how to avoid it.
Well personally for me I think it comes to how the teacher is teaching
it. My comp has been teaching us about
using quotes or others work. There is
really nothing wrong with it as long as you are citing it. In my past experiences my teachers have
always told me I could not copy and paste anyone’s work, even if I gave the
author credit. Another great thing about my comp teacher is that she teaches us
about tags and attributive tags. Example
of attributive tags would be if you found something in an article you wanted to
use you could say according to the author’s name and title, then put the quote
in. Not only does it flow better in the
paper unlike footnotes or parentheses it also teaches students that it is okay
to use other peoples work as long as you give credit to the author. I think there are so many article already
written about so many topics that you could easily use there work or change
there work enough so its your own. As
teachers we need to embrace and fully teach the internet, not block it out and
tell kids they cannot use it.
I agree that if a more authentic assessment is given in a class setting, there would not be the same need to 'copy and paste' on the part of the student - and yet, much of it still comes back to the culture of the internet and the ethics of our society. Also, when there are already so many perspectives out there (as you mention) it becomes tough to carve out a unique one of your own. My big quibble is not so much in the formality of it, but providing credit in some way to where you got the words, photos, ideas, etc. If nothing else, it is a courtesy that has fallen by the wayside for many folks.
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