Comments on: How and when do we begin learning about plagiarism? Why don’t we always learn? http://cac.ophony.org/2008/04/04/how-and-when-do-we-begin-learning-about-plagiarism-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-always-learn/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:16:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Olga http://cac.ophony.org/2008/04/04/how-and-when-do-we-begin-learning-about-plagiarism-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-always-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-31823 Olga Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:10:54 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2008/04/04/how-and-when-do-we-begin-learning-about-plagiarism-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-always-learn/#comment-31823 Yes, bad work habits surely, but it seems to me some instruction needs to be given to the students with regard to websites as sources of information that need to be cited.  It can be too easy for a teenager to think of the Internet as a free and comfortable zone associated with chatting, email, and quick ways to get assignments done. As for the assignment, the collection of index cards is itself a project that students submit and get extra credit for finding images. I think the learning goal here is not to develop research literacy but simply help students memorize definitions. Yes, bad work habits surely, but it seems to me some instruction needs to be given to the students with regard to websites as sources of information that need to be cited.  It can be too easy for a teenager to think of the Internet as a free and comfortable zone associated with chatting, email, and quick ways to get assignments done.
As for the assignment, the collection of index cards is itself a project that students submit and get extra credit for finding images. I think the learning goal here is not to develop research literacy but simply help students memorize definitions.

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]]> By: Luke http://cac.ophony.org/2008/04/04/how-and-when-do-we-begin-learning-about-plagiarism-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-always-learn/comment-page-1/#comment-31821 Luke Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:34:13 +0000 http://cac.ophony.org/2008/04/04/how-and-when-do-we-begin-learning-about-plagiarism-why-don%e2%80%99t-we-always-learn/#comment-31821 I'm not quite sure what the connection is here between chatting and information resources.  Is the connection that there is a lack of discipline in this student's work habits that finds its way into her sourcing?  I'm also assuming she had at least 5 chat windows going simultaneously.  Bad work habits, to be sure (hold... I just got an email... ok, I'm back); but I think instruction about plagiarism doesn't necessarily intersect with the chatting issue, beyond a common denominator of laziness.     I don't particularly see these as bad assignments, as long as they are placed into some type of larger lesson about doing research and developing information literacy.  It's easy enough to cite images from the web, simply by writing the referred url on the back of the index card.  The question is, what's to be done with them? I'm not quite sure what the connection is here between chatting and information resources.  Is the connection that there is a lack of discipline in this student's work habits that finds its way into her sourcing?  I'm also assuming she had at least 5 chat windows going simultaneously.  Bad work habits, to be sure (hold… I just got an email… ok, I'm back); but I think instruction about plagiarism doesn't necessarily intersect with the chatting issue, beyond a common denominator of laziness.    

I don't particularly see these as bad assignments, as long as they are placed into some type of larger lesson about doing research and developing information literacy.  It's easy enough to cite images from the web, simply by writing the referred url on the back of the index card.  The question is, what's to be done with them?

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