Blog Post D

Blog Post #D

Internet information challenges and responses, is something that we have faced for a very long time and many of us probably did not notice. After reading the content in this chapter this was one of the main concepts that I found important to me. As a researcher I have never been good at finding credible and real information, until I started college where I learned about "data bases and search engines". Most of the information from outside sources such as google, yahoo, and Wikipedia can be misinformation, malformation, messed up information, or useless information or as the book states "what seems useless to one person maybe vitally important to another"(Maloy et al, p. 113). Although we have all of this in a regular high school they have certain restrictions on the way students research for projects and schools can manage and control strategies. Censorship, filtering software, labels, and critical reading which "Burbules and Callister refer to as "hyperreading" or "giving students the tools to identify, criticize, and resist what is dangerous and undesirable on the internet" (Maloy et al p.114).This concept all in all tells me that reading is the main key concept into finding the right information and getting the work done correctly whether the information is through technology or a hard cover book.

Plagiarism and cheating, are the most punishable acts of dishonesty that one can do while in school. This concept caught my attention because every professor has this on his/her syllabus. Many students plagiarize by assuming that they are putting someone else's thoughts into their own words just because the information was found freely on the internet. Cheating has become easier with the help of smart phones which can now easily take pictures while the teacher is not looking. In a survey that was done of "nearly 30,000 students in 100 schools nationwide 36% of high school students said they use internet to plagiarize an assignment" (Maloy et al p.119). This type of technology was not available to me while I was in high school and this concept just makes me thankful that I was able to learn the difference between someone else's work and research while already in college. Cheating on the other hand has only grown easier thanks to technology but it can be prevented through different test for or quizzes for every classroom.

Although plagiarism and cheating is something that might be done unintentional there are strategies for preventing both. Instructor's are using this webpage to verify the students work and be certain that students work was not plagiarized. As I mentioned earlier I never did research through technology before, but I have notice that many of my professor's use the same webpage to verify my own personal work. This chapter gives several services that schools can use to directly check work that was turned in by students. Cheating can also be preventing by letting students build their own answer to the questions the instructor is asking this in my point of view is excellent. By directly addressing the student to give you an answer which as the book states " when students are asked to locate information and analyze the material, they have fewer ready-made opportunities to copy other people's work" (Maloy et al p.120).  This is a great way to build students out of cheating because they know what kind of questions to expect in the future.

All in all, the internet has made it so much easier for students to find misleading wrong information. It has also created a way for students to plagiarize assuming that everything that is easy to find on the internet is free to use. Cheating has been made easier thanks to smart phone photographs and web access at high speed. Our goal as future educators is to teach our students how to use our resources the best way possible.

Resources:
Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.


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