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Barbara, You are correct in what you say about assessments. I would like to add that there needs to be awareness that many students are deficient in character, honesty and a genuine respect for the rights and property of others, as long as they do not get caught. Once confronted with the copying, cheating, manipulation of information, there is a tendency for contriteness, however superficial it may be. We as a society have embraced situational ethics with such fervor that doing what is right is just about as arcane as telephone party lines or gas lights for home illumination. Don't even think about making students accountable for their actions, We'll start seeing that when button hooks are needed again to fasten shoes. Climbing down from the soap box, Clete Clete Schirra South Park High School Media Center 2178 Ridge Rd. South Park, PA 15129 schirra@sparksd.org 412-655-0613 voice 412-655-1463 fax Media Specialist/ Network Admin. "If you can read this thank a teacher." If it is in English, thank a Vet". Unknown "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin-1759 Historical Review Of Pennsylvania >>> Barbara COMBES <b.combes@ECU.EDU.AU> 05/05/04 12:24 AM >>> Hi All, Not only should we be setting authentic assessment pieces that require students to apply theory to practical situations, but we should also be working towards a recognition that how students use information, especially electronic information (Internet/Web), and how this has changed. We now have a body of students who have never known anything else but instantaneous access to information that is dispersed rapidly and in different forms across a global network. Original copyright and IP are often blurred or lost. We encourage them to use the technology to manipulate information on a daily basis (we do it ourselves). They are now being called the 'copy culture'. We talk about public domain and open source as if these terms equate with free/public ownership. No wonder students are confused! We need to build assessments that are not regurgitations of factual information. We also need to stress to students that the citation process adds value to their work. It demonstrates the depth and breadth of their research. Using your own words demonstrates your understandings. Without both of these attributes, your assessment piece does not have value as a research piece ie. it will not score a high mark. We also need to work with students on how to use the Internet as a valid research tool - what about the invisible/deep web? Where is the authority of the information you have taken from the Net? Have you evaluated your information? Put both these strategies into place and help students to use the Internet as a manageable research tool and plagiarism in the electronic sphere will be lessened if not contained. We'll never eliminate it completely, but as teachers this is all about educating students, just as we teach them to use the technology appropriately (Acceptable Use Policies and contracts). :) BC @ Your Library ECU - a participant in the 2004 WA Statewide Library Marketing Campaign. Barbara Combes, Lecturer School of Computer and Information Science Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia Ph: (08) 9370 6072 Email: b.combes@ecu.edu.au "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation." This email is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediately by return email or telephone and destroy the original message. =20 -----Original Message----- From: School Library Media & Network Communications [mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Brisco, Shonda Sent: Monday, 3 May 2004 10:28 PM To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: Re: Program on Plagiarism on ABC The program on Thursday was basically a nugget that made the public aware of the problem. While hundreds of teachers watched (at least in my school), many were asking, "what do we do?" or "how do we change it?" On Friday (after the Prime Time segment), I was actually at the Association of Independent School Librarians' meeting in Dallas where Dr. Carol Simpson was speaking on the same issue. I believe that what everyone saw on Thursday evening could have been much better if we had both Dr. Simpson and Doug Johnson as interviewees for the program. Dr. Simpson's book, "Ethics in School Librarianship" points to the issues that we face as librarians and should be read by ALL librarians--or soon to be librarians. In addition, Doug Johnson's book, "Learning Right from Wrong in the Digital Age" adds some wonderful insights into looking at ethical problems. (See his website for more links to resources: http://www.doug-johnson.com/ethics/index.html Finally, (to add one more book to the mix), "Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-Up Call" by Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss is a great "handbook" for teachers (MS / HS). If I had enough money in my budget and could be assured that the teachers would read it, I would purchase a copy for everyone---along with the Doug Johnson book! If we continue to allow ourselves to pose memorization questions rather than higher-level thinking questions, we are setting-up our students to find ways to cheat. When we start to ask good questions, we get answers that are original and not duplications of others' works OR rote memory answers. See link: http://www.standrews.austin.tx.us/library/Questioning.htm (Thanks to Barbara Jansen from Austin for this link!) I think that sometimes the biggest issue is getting teachers / administrators to move as quickly as technology has moved. We, as librarians, are forced to keep up with it because we work with it daily. Teachers who are involved in curriculums that haven't changed in ten or twenty years are the ones with students who have created loop-holes in the system. If colleges / universities are having the same problems with students cheating as high schools are having, then what we see find are savvy, cheating graduates that are "soon-to-be" new classroom teachers being taught "old-fashioned" techniques in a high-tech world (and this only applies to the educational issues---those going into business or other areas must adapt to their own issues in creative answers to problem solving.) If subjects not related to a college students' major aren't important, then cheating becomes an issue. If being the best out there is the goal, then cheating becomes an issue. If surviving the course by using high-tech methods to answer old-fashioned professors' questions, then cheating becomes an issue. This is an 'all-level' issue that, I'm afraid, may soon find its way down to the elementary level once we allow it to saturate the entire educational fabric. We MUST re-instruct students by asking better questions but we must first re-educate ourselves in ways to think about solving problems while learning if our students truly understand the issues that we want them to know in order to achieve educational success and college degrees. Just an opinion.... ~Shonda Brisco Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian Fort Worth, TX briscos@trinityvalleyschool.org -----Original Message----- From: Sybil Finemel [mailto:sfinemel@COMCAST.NET]=3D20 Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 11:25 PM To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: GEN: Program on Plagiarism on ABC I was disappointed with the program on Plagiarism that aired on Thursday =3D3D on ABC Prime time. The contents skimmed the problem and no real experts =3D3D were interviewed and if they were it were merely in = passing. Any thoughts on this? Sybil Finemel Library Director MLIS.CIO. 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