At our roundtable discussion today we had a variety of TechForum attendees discuss both symptions and solutions for digital dishonesty. We discussed the relationship of digital dishonesty to copyright, because there is a lot of overlap in these areas.
Symptoms:
- plagiarism
- copying and pasting
- students instant messaging
- understanding copyright issues is important and needed
- can use turnitin.com as an editor and teaching tool at Tarleton
- what about teachers and students that are remixing photos
- teachers have always felt like they are outside the law
- School Library Jounal recent article about librarian recording copyrighted books and podcasting them?
- fair use questions and issues
- cell phone spectrum jammers in use at some colleges? legal in the US?
Solutions:
- the key is the solution
- with expository writing, can you get creative?
- encouraging creative writing, students writing obituaries, original
- Tarleton did a pilot for 90 days with turnitin.com
- Google to check for plagiarism
- organizational policy and culture is important: needs to be part of the discussion
- start teaching academic citation right away (the minute they start doing any research on the computer)
- copyright.com will arrange for K-12 students to get permission from copyright owners
- use creativecommons.org to find works that people have permitted derivative uses
- Google for tutorials on what a “paraphrase” is and how to paraphrase
- ePals.com has instant messaging features for subscribers
- Have students blog: Will Richardson’s site about blogs in the classroom
- Address with clear policies and consistent consequences problems with cell phones
The article “When Digital Bullying Goes Too Far” includes info about the “Moshzilla” case discussed during this session.
A podcast recording of this roundtable discussion is also available!
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On this day..
- Karl Fisch at the 2011 Innovative Learning Institute - 2011
- This is a LOT of computer monitors! - 2010
- The iPad as a TV game controller - 2010
- Transforming Classroom Practice with 1:1 by Jenny Wojick, Andy Marks, Janet Parkerson, Virginia Glass and Kelly Goldberg - 2009
- Classroom Basics for 1:1 Computing by Shawn Massey and Wynn Draper-Bryant (Flint Community Schools, Michigan) - 2009
- 10 things you can do with a laptop (Gary Stager at eLearn09) - 2009
- Rachel's Haircut VoiceThread exceeds 15,000 views - 2008
- Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge by Nancy Willard - 2008
- Nancy Willard on CyberSafety Issues: Notes from Safe and Healthy Schools 2008 Oklahoma - 2008
- Contentions, research, and proactive strategies for digital citizenship - 2008
