Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Module Two: Beyond Basic Internet Searching (Fall 2014)
Has the Internet created a generation of cheaters? Do you see evidence of student plagiarism in your school? The Seattle Times article states that some educators suggest careful crafting of assignments is a better deterrent than detection services. What do you think? What should schools do to prevent plagiarism?
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Has the Internet created a generation of cheaters? Yes I believe the Internet has created a generation of not only cheaters but lazy people. The increase of cheating and academic dishonesty has increased in schools. Internet has provided opportunities to were people can copy information from web sources that encourage cheating. Internet has made cheating more beneficial, it has created new challenges for teachers and instructors. Cheating is nothing new in schools, but over the years it has created opportunities for people to cheat. It’s challenging for teachers to develop strategies to tackle plagiarism in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteDo you see evidence of student plagiarism in your school? Yes, plagiarism has evidence in the classroom. For example, students know someone who has either pasted or copied information for classwork or homework assignments. Therefore, it is not a big deal for these students to plagiarize themselves. The act of punishment for plagiarism is not consistent or reinforced. Students copy and paste from the Internet despite immediate consequences. For example, ‘’a guy forgetting to submit an online assignment, later goes to copy someone else assignment in his own handwriting because the teacher never realizes’’. Students take risks for the fact that the odds of getting caught are slim. Also students want to achieve within a short frame of time. When students feel pressured or overwhelmed to achieve they sometimes cheat. If deadlines or assignments are missed students sometime cheat. The desire to receive high scores causes cheating.
The Seattle Times article states that some educators suggest careful crafting of assignments is a better deterrent than detection services. What do you think? What should schools do to prevent plagiarism? Students need to know the difference between partnership and cheating. Teachers can provide assignments that engage students own creativity and interests. Teach students how to paraphrase and cite sources correctly. Also implement assignments that demoralize plagiarism such as rough drafts, detailed explanation of sources, and verbal reports.
The internet has not created a generation of cheaters. The internet has provided a new, easier way to cheat. Students have access to more information and with cut and paste options, students can use that information. It is the responsibility of the teachers and parents to monitor and teach students about plagiarism. Often times, teachers are consumed with other tasks that they do not penalize students for acts of plagiarism. With our grading for learning model, homework does not count as a grade so many teachers are satisfied with the work being complete. Students need to be taught about what cheating looks like and should suffer consequences of repeated offenses.
ReplyDeleteCut and paste "research papers" are where I see most plagiarism. Many times students will not even change the font so that the text from different sources will match in the document they are submitting.
There are methods of crafting assignments to prevent plagiarism but that is not always the solution. Students still need to be taught the importance of completing an assignment on their own and how to cite work used from other sources. As educators, we cannot avoid these issues. It is important to teach the students how to appropriately complete a research assignment or homework assignment without cheating or plagiarism.
I believe proper training and appropriate consequences will help students to be more knowledgeable in what cheating and plagiarism look like for specific assignments. For most students, when they know what is expected and that the teacher is looking for signs of cheating and plagiarism, they are more likely to complete assignments on their own and cite references used appropriately.
No, I do not believe that the Internet has created a generation of cheaters, however, I do believe that the access to the materials to cheat has become increasingly easy to obtain. In my opinion, it is not the Internet that in the reason for an increased amount of cheating, but teachers that are not creating assessments and assignments that are engaging the digital native generation. For example, many teachers assign the same assignments and projects year after year, and there is no variation, thus it is easier for the student to obtain a previous document or assignment to re-use. However, if teachers would create individual assessments for students to demonstrate their competency, cheating would not be an issue. Cheating emerges when teachers are only assessing students on the lower levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, such as Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application, however, if more assignments are focused on Analysis, Synthesizing, and Evaluation, it would be more difficult if not impossible to cheat, as these levels require the learner to create, develop, and implement based on the instruction concepts.
ReplyDeleteI do see evidence of plagiarism in school, even in the early grades. Students have not learned how to interpret facts or textual evidence to use in their answers and projects, thus they copy the information directly from the source. As a school, I think that it is important to begin to assess students on the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, and truly assess our students understanding of the concept integrating it into real life, rather than a simple multiple choice assessment that only measures our students ability to memorize information in isolation.
I was surprised when I read the poll that was made by the Seattle Times article. The article indicated, "Lerman's article was accompanied by a poll of 460 students. Ninety percent said they'd cheated within the past several years; 71 percent admitted to copying material from the Internet to complete assignments." However, I do not think that the Internet created a generation of cheaters with exist modern technology. Schools are using an Internet detection service in the present time to eliminate online plagiarism. Also, students recognize the dangerous of cheating and what is the extent for it. That may lead them to be failed in that class and they may be suspended from the school if they try to cheat. In addition, cheating is prohibited in many religions such as Islam, Christianity and Jewish, which means that cheating is not allowed in religions, and it is illegal in governments' policy. Therefore, the majority of students and educators are aware with cheating and they really know the rules of plagiarism in school.
ReplyDeleteAs I said before, modern technology can help teachers to eliminate cheating. They can use surveillance cameras in classrooms to observe students during the exam, and they can use an Internet detection service to make sure about plagiarism on assignments. However, I have seen some evidence of student plagiarism in my school such as using smart watches during exam, talking, and looking around. Smart watches as an advanced method can help students to take pictures for their textbook then use them easily in the exams. In my country, there is no take-home exam; so all students should do the exam in the school. Thus, cheating in the exams depend on teachers' observation. If teachers are strict and serious during the exam or surveillance cameras are existed, students will be aware of cheating and vice versa, so cheating depend on student beliefs, behavior and tenet in addition to teachers' observation method.
I partly agree with this statement, "The Seattle Times article states that some educators suggest careful crafting of assignments is a better deterrent than detection services." This method can be good for high school students because teachers in that level know student’s level in writing skills, and they can know if student use the website or not by writing method that he \ she uses. Also, students do not extra resources in high school level. The curriculum's information is enough for them. However, I do not think that graduate and undergraduate students need to the same method. Graduate and undergraduate students should search and find out a lot of information and knowledge on website to be advanced in searching and writing researches and assignments. And I totally agree with using detection services for teachers in graduate and undergraduate level to achieve the equality between students and to eliminate plagiarism issues.
Finally, It is true that some students don't always understand that they must cite sources for any ideas come from the Internet. However, schools' educators should educate student to prevent cheating either cheating in the exams or online plagiarism issues by holding lectures continuous for all students and make a cheating class. For instance, when I was at Wright State University in Ohio State, I have seen a cheating class for cheaters. That class for educates students that who try to cheat or have an issue in cheating. However, if that student tries again to cheat, he or she will be disconnected from the university. It was a great idea because it gives students second chance to complete studying. Also, schools should ask students to sign a statement at the beginning of each semester for understanding the cheating’s rules in addition to using the technology to grade the assignment and observe exams.
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*Has the Internet created a generation of cheaters?
The Internet has not created cheaters, but it make cheating easier to do. Students can search for anything, cut and paste, and teachers rarely notice that. Students become lazier and more dependable on previous works with Internet. Some students want to get a high score by cheating, while they can avoid plagiarism and quote from different sources to enhance their works.
*Do you see evidence of student plagiarism in your school?
Yes, I have heard about some evidence before. For example, there are websites that do students assignments for money. In addition, cutting and pasting from Internet, sharing assignments between students are two forms of cheating that I have seen.
*The Seattle Times article states that some educators suggest careful crafting of assignments is a better deterrent than detection services. What do you think?
What should schools do to prevent plagiarism?
Teachers are the responsibilities of students' cheating. With using Internet, teachers must educate students how to use it as a resource for support their ideas. How to search, quote, and paraphrase sources are important skills that students should be know. The diversity of assignments each year is also important to avoid cheating from previous students. Additionally, schools and teachers must set and implements consequences for plagiarism and make students aware of them as a way to prevent it.
Derrick Hunt
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Has the Internet created a generation of cheaters? I don’t personally think so. I feel that the internet and other technical devices have just made it easier to cheat. I feel that long before the internet and technology came about there were people cheating, from writing the answers down your arm to having cheat sheets hide on your person. In the classroom it is the responsibility of the teacher to ensure that when giving an assessment or anything that they do a good job of monitoring their class and not get caught up in trying to do other things. But no matter the time or era there has and will always be people cheating, as a matter of fact I was once told that “if you aren’t cheating then you weren’t trying hard enough”.
Do you see evidence of student plagiarism in your school? Yes. I think it’s just one of those things in which you aren’t trying to plagiarize but you find a statement that fits exactly what you’re trying to express perfectly and so you end up using the work. I think there has to be more educating on how to give credit for the work being used so that students understand that they can still use the work as long as they cite the work correctly.
The Seattle Times article states that some educators suggest careful crafting of assignments is a better deterrent than detection services. What do you think? What should schools do to prevent plagiarism? I honestly feel that if teachers and instructors do what they are suppose to which is walking around and monitoring their classrooms then this will make it difficult for students to cheat. Does this mean someone want try to cheat or even get away with it, no. There will always be those students who will try to cheat and some who will get away with it but I just think you have to set and expectation and let things happen as they will. I like the idea of using the detection services and not use teacher’s time with trying to identify crafty ways to catch cheaters.
In my opinion, Internet does not create a generation of cheaters but it does make the cheating easier. Some students were cheating before the Internet by sharing the assignment with others and taking their friends work …etc. Nowadays, students become lazier they use the Internet to get the information they need to do their work easily and plagiarize with no aware of the mistake they do. So, students who want to cheat will cheat with using Internet or without using it.
ReplyDeleteDo I see evidence of students’ plagiarism in my school? Yes, I do see students’ plagiarism in my school. Some of them take other students work from last years and some make others do their work for money.
The Seattle Times article states that some educators suggest careful crafting of assignments is a better deterrent than detection services. What do you think? What should schools do to prevent plagiarism? In my opinion, I think the most important thing should teachers do is educating the students about the importance of citation and educate them how to cite the information they found and use from the Internet. Using detection services is an easy and fast way to prevent plagiarism but teachers should first educate students about how to cite appropriately and put consequences of cheating that would make students more carful in doing their assignments.
*Yes, somehow internet is encouraging the students to solve their homework, projects and exams by using the internet resources. Similarly, the students are getting lot of writing content from internet and this thing is also changing their mind towards cheater. The copy paste work, plagiarised solutions and online tutoring websites are the main reason behind this generation of cheaters.
ReplyDelete*No, I did not see any evidence of plagiarism, but the guidelines and rules and regulations of the school are saying that they will reach hardly to avoid student plagiarism. It means there are chances that students are evolved in these activities. That’s why; they are forcing this rule in the terms and conditions of the school. But, yet I did not notice any evidence of student plagiarism in the school..
*Yes, they need to change the techniques and methods of the assignment preparation. If they will use the traditional way of assignments, then definitely they can’t avoid plagiarism. So they need to be more secure and deterrent during the preparation of assignments. I must recommend the schools to work on both directions, first of all they need to make a well organizes mechanism of assignment preparation and secondly they need to introduce strict policies and checking and detection of the plagiarized work on advance level.
Is it okay to cheat?
ReplyDeleteCheating has been around since the beginning of time, so has the internet created a
population of cheaters . And is it okay to cheat? As always, it’s never a good idea to cheat. But in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat. Events arise that causes a person to cheat. For example, when you are overwhelmed with assignments and you have not prepared yourself for a test that was planned for the same week. That’s when it’s time to pull out the cheat card. So in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat once or twice. So I will say the internet has not created a whole generation of cheaters, the internet just has increased attempts for the notion sometime to cheat.
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Is it okay to cheat? Or Has the internet created a generation of cheaters? It's a serious topic for educators.
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Cheating has been around since the beginning of time, so has the internet created a
population of cheaters . And is it okay to cheat? As always, it’s never a good idea to cheat. But in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat. Events arise that causes a person to cheat. For example, when you are overwhelmed with assignments and you have not prepared yourself for a test that was planned for the same week. That’s when it’s time to pull out the cheat card. So in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat once or twice. So I will say the internet has not created a whole generation of cheaters, the internet just has increased attempts for the notion sometime to cheat.
ReplyDeleteIs it okay to cheat? Or Has the internet created a generation of cheaters? It's a serious topic for educators.
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Cheating has been around since the beginning of time, so has the internet created a
population of cheaters . And is it okay to cheat? As always, it’s never a good idea to cheat. But in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat. Events arise that causes a person to cheat. For example, when you are overwhelmed with assignments and you have not prepared yourself for a test that was planned for the same week. That’s when it’s time to pull out the cheat card. So in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat once or twice. So I will say the internet has not created a whole generation of cheaters, the internet just has increased attempts for the notion sometime to cheat.
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Is it okay to cheat? Or Has the internet created a generation of cheater? Cheating is a serious topic for educator
Cheating has been around since the beginning of time, so has the internet created a
population of cheaters . And is it okay to cheat? As always, it’s never a good idea to cheat. But in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat. Events arise that causes a person to cheat. For example, when you are overwhelmed with assignments and you have not prepared yourself for a test that was planned for the same week. That’s when it’s time to pull out the cheat card. So in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat once or twice. So I will say the internet has not created a whole generation of cheaters, the internet just has increased attempts for the notion sometime to cheat.
AnonymousSeptember 22, 2014 at 9:16 PM
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Jermaine
Is it okay to cheat? Or Has the internet created a generation of cheater? Cheating is a serious topic for educator
Cheating has been around since the beginning of time, so has the internet created a
population of cheaters . And is it okay to cheat? As always, it’s never a good idea to cheat. But in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat. Events arise that causes a person to cheat. For example, when you are overwhelmed with assignments and you have not prepared yourself for a test that was planned for the same week. That’s when it’s time to pull out the cheat card. So in the land of make believe it is okay to cheat once or twice. So I will say the internet has not created a whole generation of cheaters, the internet just has increased attempts for the notion sometime to cheat.
Has the Internet created a generation of cheaters?
ReplyDeleteYes, the Internet has created a generation of cheaters because students do not have enough maturity, knowledge and ethics, so sometimes they seek to find and use new ways of cheating or plagiarism information during their research or examinations. Cheating behaviors may be considered a form of academic dishonesty: it is a way to present others’ academic work as ones’ own interfering with the learning and the evaluation process, a fraudulent means of achieving grades, being accompanied by the risk of detection and punishment (Jensen et al., 2002).
Do you see evidence of student plagiarism in your school?
Yes, I have seen that in my educational life, and there are different ways to plagiarism in school. Unfortunately, students who create these ways, and there are two kind of cheating students. The first kind who want to be successful without educational ethical principle. If students find out that others are more successful in their works through cheating, a kind of demoralization will be developed. And if cheating is not got under control, it provokes a feeling of injustice among individuals. In short, academic dishonesty should not be considered as a victimless crime. In the end we have to point out that plagiarism is taken as a kind of professional perversions and some of the plagiarists are seen as perverse intellectuals who disrupt scientific norms and professional ethic (Khodaie, et al, 2011).
The Seattle Times article states that some educators suggest careful crafting of assignments is a better deterrent than detection services. What do you think? What should schools do to prevent plagiarism?
Teachers can provide etiquette electronic list which has provisions of using the Internet, and teachers demand a formal paper from school's manager that students signing this document.
Jensen, L. A., Arnett, J. J., Feldman, S. S., & Cauffman, E. (2002). It's wrong, but everybody does it: Academic dishonesty among high school and college students. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 27(2), 209-228.
Khodaie, E., Moghadamzadeh, A., & Salehi, K. (2011). Factors affecting the probability of academic cheating school students in tehran. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 29, 1587-1595.