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Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Plagiarism in the Internet Age - 8 views

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This instruction should focus on the supposedly simple technique of summarizing sources, which is in truth not simple. Many students are far from competent at summarizing an argument— and students who cannot summarize are the students most likely to plagiarize.
- Caitlin Ruthman on 23 Jun 10
  
  This strikes me as someting teachers in many learning areas could work on with kids rather than defaulting to Language Arts as the place where kids learn about plagiarism
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This strikes me as someting teachers in many learning areas could work on with kids rather than defaulting to Language Arts as the place where kids learn about plagiarism</div>
  
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The teacher in this tale uses the incident to teach students that using others' words without attribution is a serious crime. He then emphasizes to students the importance of citation and source integration techniques and enlists the school librarian to model how to cite outside works used in a piece of writing.
- Caitlin Ruthman on 23 Jun 10
  
  I'm not sure that I see the evil/missteps in this example. It doesn't say the student was punished it says the teacher & librarian used it as an opportunity to teach about proper attribution...
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I'm not sure that I see the evil/missteps in this example. It doesn't say the student was punished it says the teacher & librarian used it as an opportunity to teach about proper attribution...</div>
  
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alternative final projects like creating a brochure
- Caitlin Ruthman on 23 Jun 10
  
  In the are of copy and paste alternative assessments like these aren't plagiarism-proof
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In the are of copy and paste alternative assessments like these aren't plagiarism-proof</div>
  
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ally plagiarizing since at least the 19th century. Doris Dant's 1986 survey of high school students, conducted well before the Internet became a cultural phenomenon, confirms this finding: Eighty percent of the high sc
- Caitlin Ruthman on 23 Jun 10
  
  Emily- is this making an email for you?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Emily- is this making an email for you?</div>
  
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