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In today's dispatch from Planet Irony... - 1 views

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  • Ed Webb on 23 Sep 10
     
    Plagiarism is bad, okay?
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  • Ed Webb on 05 Nov 10
     
    Remember, sharing is good, but stealing is bad. It pays to know the difference...
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News: Cheating and the Generational Divide - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 21 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • such attitudes among students can develop from the notion that all of education can be distilled into performance on a test -- which today's college students have absorbed from years of schooling under No Child Left Behind -- and not that education is a process in which one grapples with difficult material.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 21 Nov 10
       
      Exactly so. If the focus of education is moved away from testing regurgitated factoids and toward building genuine skills of critical analysis and effective communication, the apparent 'gap' in understanding of what cheating is will surely go away.
  • Ed Webb on 21 Nov 10
     
    I'd love to know what you Dystopians think about this.
  • Michael D'Aprix on 22 Nov 10
     
    Institutional education puts far too much pressure on students to do well in tests. This I believe forces students to cheat because if you do not perform well in this one form of evaluation you are clearly not educated well enough, not trying hard enough or just plain dumb. I doubt there are many instances outside of institutional education where you would need to memorize a number of facts for a small period of time where your very future is at stake. To me the only cheating is plagarism. If you're taking a standardized test and you don't know the answer to question 60 but the student next to you does how would it hurt anyone to share that answer? You're learning the answer to question 60. It's the same knowledge you'll learn when you get the test back and realize the answer to 60 was A not B. Again though, when will this scenario occur outside of schooling?
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