Technology has made it very easy for students to cheat. If they are to write a paper on a subject many students take the easy road out and search out a paper on the internet and worse case pay for it. Others can just copy and paste another person’s work into a word document and label it their own. Now there are tools on the internet where you can type in a part of a sentence and it will scan and tell you if it has been plagiarized and whether or not your student has actually written the paper themselves. Most teachers after having a student in their classroom can easily identify work that is not of the student’s caliber. With technology comes an easy way out, but on the flip side we are now also gaining tools to detect whether the student is submitting their own work.
Title:
Exam 'spy' traps school cheats
Authors:
Tony Halpin
Source:
Times, The (United Kingdom); 06/16/2006
Accession Number:
7EH1669286737
Persistent link to this record:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&AN=7EH1669286737&site=ehost-live
Friday, May 25, 2007
Evidence Based Posting-Research Tools
Quality Still Matters
The use of online research tools is very popular this day and age. If you have internet capabilities you no longer need to go to a library and leave your home. Go online, look up sources, and you can create whatever it is that you need to. The problem is, how do we identify reliable sources and how do we teach our students what is a reliable site and what is not. This article states that some of the very commonly used sites such as Wikipedia, are not always the best sites to use. This article also speaks about looking for resources and being able to identify the bias stated by its author and how to avoid such resources. I found it very beneficial and a good article that just because you can find information on the internet does not always mean it is correct.
Source:
Library Journal: 5/1/07, Vol. 132 Issue 8, p26-26, 1p
The use of online research tools is very popular this day and age. If you have internet capabilities you no longer need to go to a library and leave your home. Go online, look up sources, and you can create whatever it is that you need to. The problem is, how do we identify reliable sources and how do we teach our students what is a reliable site and what is not. This article states that some of the very commonly used sites such as Wikipedia, are not always the best sites to use. This article also speaks about looking for resources and being able to identify the bias stated by its author and how to avoid such resources. I found it very beneficial and a good article that just because you can find information on the internet does not always mean it is correct.
Source:
Library Journal: 5/1/07, Vol. 132 Issue 8, p26-26, 1p
Evidence Based Posting Cyberbullying
Cyber bullying among teens
The technology that is available today has given many teens the ability to bully other teens more easily than having to do it in person. It takes away from the confrontation factor and gives an the bully an advantage that they can cause the harm and not be seen doing it. The article that I read talked about how teens bully using electronic communication tools. Over 54% of the students that were surveyed said that they had been victims of cyber bullying. I believe that technology is making it easier for teens to take action and not feel accountable for what they are really doing.
Source:
New Bottle but old wine: A research of cyber bullying in schools. Li, Qing, University of Calgary, Computers in Human Behavior, Vol 23 (4), Jul 2007. pp. 1777-1791
The technology that is available today has given many teens the ability to bully other teens more easily than having to do it in person. It takes away from the confrontation factor and gives an the bully an advantage that they can cause the harm and not be seen doing it. The article that I read talked about how teens bully using electronic communication tools. Over 54% of the students that were surveyed said that they had been victims of cyber bullying. I believe that technology is making it easier for teens to take action and not feel accountable for what they are really doing.
Source:
New Bottle but old wine: A research of cyber bullying in schools. Li, Qing, University of Calgary, Computers in Human Behavior, Vol 23 (4), Jul 2007. pp. 1777-1791
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