Plagiarism Activity

3. NETS Standard:Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
Students:
a. plan strategies to guide inquiry.
b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use
information from a variety of sources and media.
c. evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on
the appropriateness to specific tasks.
d. process data and report results.

The Plagiarism activity was a wonderful way to explain the mistakes we all can make so easily. Turnitin.com allows students to submit work and it will find a percentage of plagiarized information they might have copied. This is very useful because it allows teachers to view each website in which the student could have copied from, and give them a chance to read for themselves how much might have been taken unrightfully. I find this very important for students to understand because it shows to use how easy it is for teachers to find out if you have plagiarized a text. It helps you understand how important is to write your own view of the paper and what is and isn’t acceptable.

Google Groups

Google groups are neat for a classroom discussion because they allow individuals a chance to take part in a group discussion. It is designed to allows individuals in large groups to organize an online group. This group of people can collaborate with each other. But, I do not find it very useful in my future classroom. Unlike a blog or webpage, google groups allows students to change others students words. I do not like this feature. It is also a little scattered and unorganized. I think it would be a little difficult to have students understand and manage this site. Google groups send each member a message when a page or comment is added. This is very annoying. I had thirty or so e-mails by the class period we practiced using google groups in. The NET standard I found that fits will with google groups is 1c. – It promotes student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes.