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Dear Sybil
Don't have a lesson plan but copyright would be a good issue to explore!
And there are plenty of resources that would get them thinking.

There was a great piece of research from Joy McGregor from the Women's
University of Texas that showed the more a student copied and pasted from a
website the higher the grade ...
McGregor, J. (1998)  Do Scribes Learn? Copying and Information Use in School
Library Media Quarterly Online
http://www.ala.org/aasl/SLMQ/scribes.html

And there are all those sites that students can download completed papers
from like http://www.schoolsucks.com

Perhaps you could set up a scenario where the students have to decide if
that's fair, what they think the teacher should do in that case, what they
should/ would do if they know a student has cheated in this way and how the
situation might be avoided.  I'd also throw in why students feel the need to
copy and paste and /or use these services but that might open up a whole can
of worms about the value of assessment and grading and whether the systems
in place meet the intended outcomes of the learning, and you might not want
to go there :>}

Because the issues are so relevant to their current situation and have
implications for their personal performance and they can put themselves in
the picture so easily, it should be a great starting point for some
interesting debate. It's also non-political, non-racial, non-sexist,
non-religious and you couldn't be accused of bias. :>}

Kia ora
Barbara

Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
Palmerston District Primary School
PALMERSTON ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA

T. 02 6205 7241
F. 02 6205 7242
E. barbara@austarmetro.com.au
W. http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au

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