It's just far too 1984-esque to survail remotely from an instructor computer what every student is doing. I love tech personally but in order to ensure student authorship, the school are increasingly having to resort to rather 1984-esque options like turnitin.com.
It's just harder to ensure that a person (especially during written exams) is actually using their own words when there are loads of "cheat essay" sites on the web. Some schools have the tech to lock down computers, or restrict access to certain sites, but the web is vast and there are loads of instructors who just aren't techy and there just isn't the budget to hire an army of techs.
Actually, the MLA and APA formats have offered plenty on how to handle a multitude of web content. What is far more germane to Colleges/Universities is that are a number of examples of wholesale copying and pasting from one page (e.g. Wikipedia) and placing it into another and saying it's yours. Believe it or not, there are just students out there that are moronic enough to just treat *anything* from the web a source no matter what you teach them about choosing the most reliable sources
i agree. google being the only medium is just as frightening as apple being the only medium. even only those two being the only two is scary. however, with competition, it is much less so. and i agree with the stuff about schools, it is just absurd that they denounce the internet, the greatest tool to man, as unreliable. wikipedia is crucified in my school as inaccurate. but they have footnotes and citations IN wikipedia! let us use wikipedia as a ref. and use the citations in it!
It's just far too 1984-esque to survail remotely from an instructor computer what every student is doing. I love tech personally but in order to ensure student authorship, the school are increasingly having to resort to rather 1984-esque options like turnitin.com.
skypup03 2 weeks ago
It's just harder to ensure that a person (especially during written exams) is actually using their own words when there are loads of "cheat essay" sites on the web. Some schools have the tech to lock down computers, or restrict access to certain sites, but the web is vast and there are loads of instructors who just aren't techy and there just isn't the budget to hire an army of techs.
skypup03 2 weeks ago
Actually, the MLA and APA formats have offered plenty on how to handle a multitude of web content. What is far more germane to Colleges/Universities is that are a number of examples of wholesale copying and pasting from one page (e.g. Wikipedia) and placing it into another and saying it's yours. Believe it or not, there are just students out there that are moronic enough to just treat *anything* from the web a source no matter what you teach them about choosing the most reliable sources
skypup03 2 weeks ago
Can you start putting the date when you are doing the show to the title again?
m4kk393 2 weeks ago
Did you by any chance go to an Amish college? My Freshman year was nothing like that.
leodamascus 3 weeks ago
@leodamascus Actually it was one of the better engineering schools in the country...
TheShowThatSUX 3 weeks ago
My college is a Google school
dsFDFAHAHAHH 3 weeks ago
i agree. google being the only medium is just as frightening as apple being the only medium. even only those two being the only two is scary. however, with competition, it is much less so. and i agree with the stuff about schools, it is just absurd that they denounce the internet, the greatest tool to man, as unreliable. wikipedia is crucified in my school as inaccurate. but they have footnotes and citations IN wikipedia! let us use wikipedia as a ref. and use the citations in it!
archlinuxrussian 3 weeks ago