9/3/2016

“Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”: I find this reading very interesting, I didn’t even think about people living in different times without technology. I have grown up using computers, cell phones, video games etc., and I truly feel our generation has lost the ability to communicate face to face because of these technologies. Digital Natives are people who have grown up to know technology, while Digital Immigrant are people who grown up without it but started using it later in life; they turn to reading first then technology second.  I personally feel that digital immigrant’s live life in less of a lazy manner as for us Digital Natives we go straight for technology first. With Digital immigrants teaching there would be a language barrier because immigrants don’t think the same way as us natives, we both have different views on learning styles. In the end of the article it talks about how the immigrants should teach the native style and I do not think that is fair at all, I think everyone should meet in the middle, immigrants teach some of the native ways, but natives have to learn the immigrant ways as well for effective teaching to work, and for everyone to have an understanding about technology and also life without technology.

“Alise Discussion: The statistical probability of accidental plagiarism”: Plagiarism can truly be accidental or intentional. You might forget specific citations, or you may not even know the proper way to cite your work correctly. I personally have never set out to intentionally copy and paste word for word and essay, however people do. I liked how in this topic they talked about reading a review before writing your own. I can relate to that because sometimes I’m not understanding the material or what my instructor is looking for so might look at someone else’s idea to just get an understanding of what someone is looking for. I get to reading their article and then I kind of create my own by reading there’s. I never saw that as plagiarism but it definitely makes sense. I think that we have all plagiarized as much as we want don’t want to admit it. In the article it talks about how everyone plagiarizes, our thoughts come from something we have read in the past, and the only way to not plagiarize is to never write.

“Gilmore: Write from Wrongs”: I personally found a few topics from the eleven points made in this reading that I found extremely important and understandable when it comes to plagiarism.

·      Athletes are at greater risk: athletes have a lot on the line, they have to maintain a GPA at a certain level, while practicing every day for say 3 hours after they have been in class all day. A person who goes out for a sport doesn’t want to be ineligible to play, they went out for a reason and they are going to play. That means if they have to cheat they will find someone to cheat of off, whether that person is a friend or just a neighbor sitting close by that doesn’t care. They could feel overwhelmed with feeling like they never have time to study because they are so involved in a sport.  When you are in college you have to dedicate your life to that sport so it would be harder to keep your grades up.

·      Electronic Detection Services are useful but limited: There is a website for students and instructors to use called “turnitin.com” it checks to make sure that no one has plagiarized a piece of writing. This website would help tremendously with plagiarism and cheating if students knew that teachers were using this. I also think if teachers would speak up before the semester started and told their students “I will be checking to see if anything is plagiarized” and held them accountable when they did plagiarize, they wouldn’t risk it because they would be scared of getting caught. I think electronic services helps out a ton because you as the teacher don’t have to try to figure out if its plagiarized, post it to the site and it will show if it is or not, this also goes along with “teachers who talk about plagiarism makes a difference”, and I truly feel that it does.

·      Students think of plagiarism differently than teachers do: I wouldn’t have thought that turning in the same papers in two different classes would be considered plagiarism, or that copying another person’s work, I always knew it was cheating but never plagiarism, just from a student’s perspective. I agree with this article, it just proves that students and teachers really do looks at plagiarism differently.

“Townley and Parshell: Technology and Academic Virtue: Student Plagiarism through the looking glass”: The section “down the rabbit hole” caught my eye because everyone seems to be putting their lives on the internet, and trusting that its safe without even thinking about all the hackers and fraud sites and such. When we are buying an outfit online, we are so quick to just type our credit card information without thinking twice about it, which is an example of trusting the internet. Everyone uses technology now days, for paying bills, typing things out, romantic and social relationships. It even makes stealing peoples work that much easier, all you have to do is google what you want to know or copy and it pulls up a bunch of different ideas for you to copy and paste and use for plagiarizing.

“Koehler and Mishra: What is technology pedagogical and context knowledge: TPACK is what I thought to be the most important because its three of the major topics in one. It leads to effective teaching with the use of technology if your understanding all of its concepts. TPACK stands for: technology, pedagogy, and context knowledge, this will teach you how to physically teach with technology which you will need to know along with understanding pedagogy techniques with using technology, and knowing what is difficult or what works for students to learn. They can play as independent roles or as one. “it allows teachers, researchers, and teacher educators to move beyond over simplified approaches that treat technology as an add on instead of focusing again, and in more ecological way upon the connections among technology content pedagogy, as they play out in classroom context”.