Research Process Livebinder USC-SLIS 742. May, 1998, From Now On. Introduction: The New Plagiarism Could electronic text spawn a virulent strain of student copying? Is cut-and-paste the enemy of thought? Many teachers who work in "wired schools" are complaining that new technologies have made it all too easy for students to gather the ideas of others and present them as their own. The New York Times reports that "cheating is on the rise. " (Go to September 16, 1998 article) The New Plagiarism may be worse than the old because students now wield an Electronic Shovel that makes it possible to find and save huge chunks of information with little reading, effort or originality.
Is the New Plagiarism any worse than the old? Under the old system of "go find out about" topical research, it took students a huge amount of time to move words from the encyclopedia pages onto white index cards, changing one word in each sentence so as to avoid plagiarism. The New Plagiarism requires little effort and is geometrically more powerful. Level One Research "Just the Facts"
What Is Plagiarism? Chris just found some good stuff on the Web for his science report about sharks. He highlights a paragraph that explains that most sharks grow to be only 3 to 4 feet long and can't hurt people. Chris copies it and pastes it into his report. He quickly changes the font so it matches the rest of the report and continues his research. Uh-oh. Chris just made a big mistake. Do you know what he did? He committed plagiarism (say: PLAY-juh-rih-zem). Plagiarism is a form of cheating, but it's a little complicated so a kid might do it without understanding that it's wrong.
Plagiarism Steals Ideas The word plagiarism comes from a Latin word for kidnapping. What should Chris have done? Teachers have different rules on how you list sources. All this shouldn't make you nervous to use websites, books, and other sources. It's not always easy to tell what's plagiarism and what's not. So even if you put the information into your own words, you still should list the source. Plagiarism Is Lazy. Find free and fair use photos. Grabbing images from Google is easy. You search, copy and paste. It’s a no-brainer and often the first thing students do when creating any sort of digital project that requires images.
But how do your students know if they have permission to use someone else’s photos? To be in alignment with the ISTE Standards for Students on digital citizenship, students need to understand copyright and how to find royalty-free images that are OK to use in projects. One example of a digital activity that requires royalty-free media is a book trailer project I often assign to my fifth graders.
Students create 60- to 90-second movie trailers of books they have read. The images they use must also be royalty-free and fair use. Here are four great sites I have found to search for royalty-free photos. Pics4Learning. FlickrCC. Photos for Class. Other Side of Plagiarism. Most of my Head for the Edge columns, updated and edited, can be found in my latest book. Buy it and I might be able to afford a nicer nursing home one day.
Thank you. The Other Side of Plagiarism Head for the Edge, Library Media Connection, September 2004 Here I am! Lil’ Debbie, a senior at Big Kahuna High. Student plagiarism is an oft discussed topic in our profession. Clete is right, of course. Perhaps I am too sympathetic with the Lil’ Debbies of the world. As educators, this is our ethical failing if our assignments do not help student learn necessary academic skills and necessary life-long skills. Part of our professional mission should be to help classroom teachers improve the quality of their research assignments (whether they want to or not). My dad used to say, “A thing not worth doing is not worth doing well.” Avoiding Plagiarism: Quoting and Paraphrasing.
General advice When reading a passage, try first to understand it as a whole, rather than pausing to write down specific ideas or phrases. Be selective. Unless your assignment is to do a formal or "literal" paraphrase, you usually don? T need to paraphrase an entire passage; instead, choose and summarize the material that helps you make a point in your paper. Top Methods of Paraphrasing Look away from the source then write. If you find that you can't do A or B, this may mean that you don't understand the passage completely or that you need to use a more structured process until you have more experience in paraphrasing. The method below is not only a way to create a paraphrase but also a way to understand a difficult text. Paraphrasing difficult texts Consider the following passage from Love and Toil (a book on motherhood in London from 1870 to 1918), in which the author, Ellen Ross, puts forth one of her major arguments: What do the four fair use factors mean? – Help Center.
A Fair(y) Use Tale. The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons. The Edublogs support team regularly receives complaints and official requests to remove copyrighted content that users have placed on blogs. The legal jargon with respect to digital copyrights can be confusing – especially since different countries have their own laws and regulations.
Understanding digital copyright is an essential skill we need to understand and teach our students. With this post, we hope to dispel a few myths and pull together a complete list of resources for teachers and students to use when blogging and working with content online. This post was originally written by Ronnie Burt, on the Edublogger, on Feb, 2012. It’s been re-written with content and comments from the original post combined with updated content by Sue Waters. Rule 1: You Can’t Use Everything You Find On the Web This may seem obvious, but judging by the notices we have received, many teachers (and especially students) are under the impression that if it is on the web, then it is up for grabs. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright. Skip navigation Library of Congress Teachers Suggestions enabled. The Library of Congress > Teachers > Classroom Materials > Presentations and Activities > Copyright Print Subscribe Share/Save Give Feedback Taking the Mystery Out Of Copyright View a plain text version of this activity. Connect with the Library All ways to connect Find Us On Subscribe & Comment Download & Play Questions About | Press | Jobs | Donate Inspector General | Legal | Accessibility | External Link Disclaimer | USA.gov Speech Enabled. A Visual Guide To Creative Commons Licensing. A Visual Guide To Creative Commons Licensing Creative Commons licensing was one of the best things that ever happened to the internet. Where once the internet was an untamed beast overran by plagiarism, non-attributed image theft, copyright confusion, and super shaky sense of who owns what–well, really that hasn’t changed for most.
But for those paying attention, Creative Commons licensing offers an oasis of both simple rules and a communal framework that allows both media publishers and media consumers the ability to be on the same page. This is especially important in education, where teachers and students take to the internet daily to find, curate, publish and share every form of digital media.
Often teachers end up in 1 of 2 camps: 1. 2. With this context in mind, the following graphic from foter.com does an excellent job of putting all of the need-to-know information in one very visual package that’s easily shared and saved. Fair Use Checklist | Columbia University Libraries. Youtube Copyright Center. Copyright kids. Creative Commons. Copyright resources for teachers. August 12, 2014 Now that the new school year is about to start, it would be great to devote a session with your students where you can talk to them about issues related to copyright and proper use of digital artifacts from the net. This will definitely help them make better and informed decisions as to the kind of materials they are allowed to use in their work and provide them with practice on the different ways they can appropriately credit sources.
This resourceful page embeds a wide variety of materials to use in this regard, browse through the items featured there and bookmark the ones you plan to use with your students. I am also sharing with you this wonderful graphic that debunks 5 myths about copyright infringement. You can print it off and use it in your class as well. Interactive Graphic about Copyright. Today we are adding this wonderful resource from Cyberbee. This is basically an interactive image which includes important information in the form of answers to questions students might raise when discussing the topic of copyright.
To start using this resource all you need to do is to hover your pointer over a student to read the question then click on that student to read the answer. Here are the questions asked by students in this interactive graphic, to see the answer you need to click on a student. 1- What is copyright 2- What about me ? Does't the public have rights to use music and art ? 3- What is public domaine ? 4- What is fair use 5- I found a great photograph from the Smithsonian website. can I use it in my report ? Below is only a snapshot of the image , click HERE to access the original interactive graphic. Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines.
How to Identify Mysterious Images Online | MindShift | KQED News. Can’t figure out the source of an image you found online? There’s an easy trick you might not know about — and it’s an essential tool for citing sources. Students who find images they want to use in projects need to follow the appropriate rules of citation: state the title and the original source. But with so much misinformation and mis-attribution online, students might either change the research topic to avoid the problem altogether or simply cite the source poorly. Take, for example, a student wanting to use this image (above) labeled as a cartoon by Rube Goldberg. Since he wants to use it in a project, he must find the original source of the image, but when he tries looking through Rube Goldberg’s illustrations of absurd, overly-complex machines, the artistic style looks different. That was a dead end. But there’s a Google tool that allows him to use an image as a search term. Within just a few seconds, he can discover another artist, named W.
Here’s how to use Search by Image: The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons.