Faith. It's Not What You Think
Students must be poistively reinforced to produce original authentic analysis instead of cutting and pasting.
Kevin,
Awesome job!! I am glad you give that option. It puts the course into the 21st century!
Shelly Crider
Absolutely. For the upcoming session, I have created a couple of videos and posted them to YouTube. I will send my students links in the course announcements letting them know to visit the videos. In them, I take a friendly, supportive approach to talking them through using sources appropriately. We'll see how it works.
Rebecca,
"Guided" is an excellent choice of word to use. I teach a lot of upper level courses and I realized that most students were not "guided" in the right direction when it comes to writing. I recently allowed capstone students to have access to turnitin.com and gave them opportunities to submit drafts prior to their final submission. A few students felt challenged to get their percents down prior to submission which required them to re-write and put into their own words what others said about the topic. I was very impressed with their hard work.
Simone Branham
I thought it was interesting that you said you believed it was harder for men to empathize with students. I think I have been challenged to be empathetic with students, but I have gotten better over the years. I am a stickler for structure and honesty, so I used to be personally offended when students plagiarized. Now I realize that it's not personal...they just need to be guided in the right direction by someone who will take the time to explain things rather than assume they should know better.
Hi Rebecca,
I tell students to change the words and wording by using their own voice and style. You tell the story using short paragraphs with topic sentences full of relevant evidence. I teach history but every discipline requires support for themes and concepts.
I make students do it over and over again until the work actually becomes their's. I do a lot of work with animals and so I always say with children and adults too, you have to get your students to know what the right way is through positive reinforcement.
I think this is much harder for men since they focus more on discipline instead of empathy which I think works better for improvement.
Give students your faith and they will almost all have new born will.
Tikkun olam (Hebrew): "Heal thyself and heal the Universe."
Reid
Reid, I think that is an intriguing notion. However, how do you positively reinforce authentic analysis beyond giving positive feedback and a good grade? It seems that we concentrate more on catching and punishing those who do copy and paste. What are your methods?
