Blog Journal 2
Blog Journal 2
29 January 2019
My experience using Microsoft Word as a student is a little bit different than I've seen my teachers use it in the past. Students use Word to complete assignments, type out papers, and even to just take sloppy notes in class. When a teacher uses Microsoft Word, they use it more professionally. Teachers have to know how to be organized on Word to create worksheets and print-ables for their students, which have to be perfectly spaced and formatted right.
Learning about copyrighting and plagiarism has always been a confusing subject for me, because I feel like it was never taught specifically in school at a young age. I've had a few classes, but not until later in high school or college, that we've had lessons on how to cite correctly, and what to use and not to use. If I became an English teacher, I would definitely make it one of my big lesson plans to teach the ins and outs of copyright and fair use of materials.
One of the biggest issues when it comes to writing and creating is copyrighting and plagiarism. Like I said before, if I was a teacher, I would make sure to teach a thorough lesson on how to cite sources and where to find scholarly articles that are meant to be used by other people.
Academic honesty is another large problem in schools, and it goes hand-in-hand with copyrighting and plagiarism. One solution I would use as a teacher is the website/service "Turn It In." Turnitin.com allows teachers to paste their students work into the database and make sure it wasn't stolen from anywhere on the internet.
The technology issue, cyberbullying, is a hard one to tackle. There are no solutions that will stop it completely, but there are definitely things we can do as educators to prevent it. One thing I would do is show a few videos and examples of kids who were bullied to the point of wanting to badly hurt themselves. I would also love to create an in-class activity where we create a little anonymous online chat as a class. Each student would have to send one nice compliment to every student in the class. We would then show how positivity is far more effective than negative comments. The students could then look back at these nice comments from their classmates any time they want, especially if they are being bullied online and need a little extra encouragement.
29 January 2019
My experience using Microsoft Word as a student is a little bit different than I've seen my teachers use it in the past. Students use Word to complete assignments, type out papers, and even to just take sloppy notes in class. When a teacher uses Microsoft Word, they use it more professionally. Teachers have to know how to be organized on Word to create worksheets and print-ables for their students, which have to be perfectly spaced and formatted right.
Learning about copyrighting and plagiarism has always been a confusing subject for me, because I feel like it was never taught specifically in school at a young age. I've had a few classes, but not until later in high school or college, that we've had lessons on how to cite correctly, and what to use and not to use. If I became an English teacher, I would definitely make it one of my big lesson plans to teach the ins and outs of copyright and fair use of materials.
One of the biggest issues when it comes to writing and creating is copyrighting and plagiarism. Like I said before, if I was a teacher, I would make sure to teach a thorough lesson on how to cite sources and where to find scholarly articles that are meant to be used by other people.
Academic honesty is another large problem in schools, and it goes hand-in-hand with copyrighting and plagiarism. One solution I would use as a teacher is the website/service "Turn It In." Turnitin.com allows teachers to paste their students work into the database and make sure it wasn't stolen from anywhere on the internet.
The technology issue, cyberbullying, is a hard one to tackle. There are no solutions that will stop it completely, but there are definitely things we can do as educators to prevent it. One thing I would do is show a few videos and examples of kids who were bullied to the point of wanting to badly hurt themselves. I would also love to create an in-class activity where we create a little anonymous online chat as a class. Each student would have to send one nice compliment to every student in the class. We would then show how positivity is far more effective than negative comments. The students could then look back at these nice comments from their classmates any time they want, especially if they are being bullied online and need a little extra encouragement.
Using Turnitin.com is a great idea to see if the students are using original work! In high school, all of my English teachers used it. I also really like the idea of sending compliments to each other anonymously. Would this be a weekly/ monthly thing or just once?
ReplyDeleteGood question! I guess we would just do it once at the beginning of the year, but allow the students to be able to log in and look at their comments, or send more any time they wanted to! Hopefully we would never have a cyberbullying incident happen, but if we did I would definitely have the kids do it again!
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