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Dennis OConnor

Caught Cheating: New Ways Kids Are Breaking the Rules - 14 views

www.commonsensemedia.org/...w-ways-kids-are-breaking-rules

cheating digitalcitizenship ethics social-media facebook information literacy

shared by Dennis OConnor on 20 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 20 Aug 11
     
    When is it cheating? When is it collaboration? This thoughtful article from Common Sense Media provides fine advice for parents (or teachers) on how to talk to kids about digital media and ethics.  
Clifford Baker

Editorial Observer - Cutting and Pasting - A Senior Thesis by (Insert Name) - NYTimes.com - 9 views

www.nytimes.com/...13tue4.html

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shared by Clifford Baker on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • “This represents a shift away from the view of education as the process of intellectual engagement through which we learn to think critically and toward the view of education as mere training. In training, you are trying to find the right answer at any cost, not trying to improve your mind.”
  • Not everyone who gets caught knows enough about what they did to be remorseful.
  • “The big sleeping dog here is not the moral issue. The problem is that kids don’t learn if they don’t do the work.”
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  • The Pritchard axiom — that repetitive cheating undermines learning — has ominous implications for a world in which even junior high school students cut and paste from the Internet instead of producing their own writing.
  • When many young people think of writing, they don’t think of fashioning original sentences into a sustained thought. They think of making something like a collage of found passages and ideas from the Internet.
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