The new plagiarism.
When Jamie McKenzie writes about is becoming more prevalent in schools as kids become more techno-savvy. Using the seven antidotes that she has written about can also be used in WebQuests.
While going over some of my old WebQuests I developed in the late 90s, I see that some of them are nothing more than just information gathering that there was no higher learning required.
One must take a look at the level of learning that is required when having students engaged in a research project. The use of these different techniques to bring about original thought from students can help curb the use of plagiarism in the class. There are also websites that teachers can use to find out if a student is plagiarizing.
www.iThenticate.com
Plagiarism online
Plagiarism detection solution for
publishers, lawyers and authors
www.iThenticate.com
Plagiarism website
Turnitin stops student plagiarism
In use in 90 countries since 1996.
www.Turnitin.com
Understanding what plagiarism is: here is a couple of sites to help students understand what plagiarism is.
From Iowa State University
http://lib.iastate.edu:9050/resources/facultyguides/plagiarism/websites.html
From the University of Toronto
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html
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Friday, June 6, 2008
day 4
Locating and evaluating WebQuests.
Since the late 1990s, the use of technology, and in classrooms has expanded by leaps and bounds. Part of the problem has been the lack of teacher training in the use of this new technology. In many instances, teachers taking their classes to the computer lab has been the same as some teachers showing and irrelevant movie in a classroom just to take a break. Teachers giving their students a list of topics, and then asking them to just Google it is nothing more than just wasting time. WebQuests can be used as the environment as it says in the website marmot for problem solving teambuilding and a good use of Internet resources. The preparation and planning is vitally important to the success of a classroom WebQuests.
There are many new and wonderful WebQuests on the Internet. Nowadays, with standards-based testing, WebQuests can help students and teachers cover a particularly hard topic. The aspect of working smarter not harder. Can come in to play when looking at a topic for a WebQuests. This article on locating evaluating WebQuests can be a valuable tool to any teacher looking to use a WebQuests in their classroom.
Since the late 1990s, the use of technology, and in classrooms has expanded by leaps and bounds. Part of the problem has been the lack of teacher training in the use of this new technology. In many instances, teachers taking their classes to the computer lab has been the same as some teachers showing and irrelevant movie in a classroom just to take a break. Teachers giving their students a list of topics, and then asking them to just Google it is nothing more than just wasting time. WebQuests can be used as the environment as it says in the website marmot for problem solving teambuilding and a good use of Internet resources. The preparation and planning is vitally important to the success of a classroom WebQuests.
There are many new and wonderful WebQuests on the Internet. Nowadays, with standards-based testing, WebQuests can help students and teachers cover a particularly hard topic. The aspect of working smarter not harder. Can come in to play when looking at a topic for a WebQuests. This article on locating evaluating WebQuests can be a valuable tool to any teacher looking to use a WebQuests in their classroom.
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