Unit 4: Integrating Strategies in the Classroom
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Preventing Plagiarism in the Classroom
Unit 3: Strategies to Avoid Plagiarism
What Do I Know Now?
What do you already know about intellectual and academic integrity? What do you think your students know about it? Post your response in the Padlet below!
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Teaching Intellectual Integrity
It is important to explicitly teach about plagiarism and intellectual integrity to students. Students who are unclear about plagiarism may assume that they are sufficiently knowledgeable and, consequently, may not seek greater understanding. Research has found that plagiarism can be reduced through explicit instruction that is designed to increase awareness of academic integrity. Teaching students ethics and explaining non-ethical behaviors is vital in increasing the awareness of students towards cheating and plagiarism. More specifically, including a component of academic-integrity mastery has been effective in increasing both students’ understanding of plagiarism and the extent to which they perceive plagiarism to be a serious issue.
Click Here to discover how to create classroom environments that help foster academic integrity. Take special note of the section labeled: Fostering a Culture of Academic Integrity.
The video below helps demonstrate the importance of respecting the work of others.
Activity
It is vital that you are able to take the information that you are learning in this course and apply it to what you are teaching. For this activity, create a lesson plan that showcases the importance of intellectual integrity that would be appropriate for students in your classroom. Click Here for an example lesson plan that teaches integrity and respect to young elementary students.
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Reflection
For your classroom and students, what type of plagiarism prevention strategy do you believe would be most effective? Consider the reflection that you did in Unit 1 listing the reasons you think students may be plagiarizing in your classroom, as well as the different strategies discussed in Unit 3, when writing your answer. Post you response in the Padlet below.
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