Blog Journal 2
I have been using Microsoft Word since elementary school for projects, papers, and more. More recently in my late high school and collegiate career, I have used Word for my research papers. My teachers have also used it for instructions, quizzes, and more. In college, my professors have used it mostly to print out our class syllabus and daily discussion questions.
Plagiarism has always been a topic that my teachers and professors have warned me about constantly, as the consequences are severe. There are now popular websites that many teachers buy instructional materials, lesson plans, and more from. This allows them to have more free time while also still providing students quality education. As a teacher, I would show my students examples of what plagiarism looks like, because it is not always just outright copying and pasting someone else's work. As an English teacher specifically, I would make sure that my students knew the proper way to cite someone else's work in a paper and create a proper works cited page or bibliography.
As I said previously, I think the solution to academic honesty is making sure that all students really understand every instance of plagiarism as well as how serious the consequences are. Some students are always going to plagiarize, though, no matter how much you tell them not to; in that case, punishing those students is necessary in order to show them that the consequences are real. Privacy is another big issue for students with the prevalence that social media has in their lives. I think showing students examples of how oversharing online can ruin their life, as well as teaching them how to adjust social media settings to protect their privacy. I also think that letting parents know the importance of enforcing these privacy rules will help, as teachers can only do so much on this issue, since students use social media at home mostly. Cyberbullying is arguably the biggest technology-based issue that teachers face. Bullying used to happen while students were physically in school, giving teachers an immediate opportunity to correct the behavior; when it happens online, though, teachers don't always know it is happening and therefore can't rectify the situation. Many times, even when teachers are alerted to the problem, they still can't do anything because it happens off of school grounds. The past few years, though, the laws and rules about cyberbullying are being updated to allow for schools to punish students who cyberbully and better protect the victims. These new rules have been instrumental in reducing cyberbullying. Letting students know that the consequences for cyberbullying are the same as if they bullied a student in person is the only way to prevent it. Students sometimes think that what they do online doesn't matter or that it's anonymous because it seems so separate from 'real life.' Teaching them to practice the same respect for others online as they do in real life is a good way to shake this idea from them and prevent cyberbullying.
Plagiarism has always been a topic that my teachers and professors have warned me about constantly, as the consequences are severe. There are now popular websites that many teachers buy instructional materials, lesson plans, and more from. This allows them to have more free time while also still providing students quality education. As a teacher, I would show my students examples of what plagiarism looks like, because it is not always just outright copying and pasting someone else's work. As an English teacher specifically, I would make sure that my students knew the proper way to cite someone else's work in a paper and create a proper works cited page or bibliography.
As I said previously, I think the solution to academic honesty is making sure that all students really understand every instance of plagiarism as well as how serious the consequences are. Some students are always going to plagiarize, though, no matter how much you tell them not to; in that case, punishing those students is necessary in order to show them that the consequences are real. Privacy is another big issue for students with the prevalence that social media has in their lives. I think showing students examples of how oversharing online can ruin their life, as well as teaching them how to adjust social media settings to protect their privacy. I also think that letting parents know the importance of enforcing these privacy rules will help, as teachers can only do so much on this issue, since students use social media at home mostly. Cyberbullying is arguably the biggest technology-based issue that teachers face. Bullying used to happen while students were physically in school, giving teachers an immediate opportunity to correct the behavior; when it happens online, though, teachers don't always know it is happening and therefore can't rectify the situation. Many times, even when teachers are alerted to the problem, they still can't do anything because it happens off of school grounds. The past few years, though, the laws and rules about cyberbullying are being updated to allow for schools to punish students who cyberbully and better protect the victims. These new rules have been instrumental in reducing cyberbullying. Letting students know that the consequences for cyberbullying are the same as if they bullied a student in person is the only way to prevent it. Students sometimes think that what they do online doesn't matter or that it's anonymous because it seems so separate from 'real life.' Teaching them to practice the same respect for others online as they do in real life is a good way to shake this idea from them and prevent cyberbullying.
Copyright is more than plagiarism. It is about fair use of other people's intellectual property. Plagiarism is the red line but there is also a gray area that is surely not plagiarism but might be using IP without giving property credit. It is all about respecting other people's work and effort.
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