Here are we are in the beautiful Wellstone Library doing research on reference books. We talked about the importance of putting things in your own words and citing sources of information. It seems sometime in the digital world we emphasize the need not to copy as it is so super easy but forget to emphasize the same for printed material. Many students want to copy things literally as then they know the grammar will be correct. I tell them I would rather see grammatical errors and mispellings than work that obviously is not theirs. Vocabulary can be an easy tip off for that. Overall our students are respectful and would not knowingly break copyright or plaglarism rules. So teaching these lessons may be the first they have heard of these rules as other countries may not hold these rules to the same degree as they are held here.
I was also very interested in the whole copyleft conversation the other evening at the MetroMini meeting. I had never heard of it before but looked it up in Wikipedia and know I too am educated on the subject.
1 comment:
I like your comment that you'd rather see their own thoughts than perfect grammar. It symbolizes so much about how we can stress higher level thinking skills. I also like your point that the kids really do want to do the right thing . . . they just need more direction as to what that means. Keep up the good work!
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