Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues (Turnitin; link to the Revised version only)


The Turnitin assignment for this course had two parts. For the first part of this assignment the class had to type a report talking about the social, ethical, legal, and human issues of technology all in just one page. We were giving a list of questions relating to the topics and we had to answer all of the questions within our report. The easy part concerning the first part of the Turnitin assignment was that we could copy all of the information we needed to answer the questions from the resources and websites provided by our instructor. Basically we had to plagiarize the report on purpose. The last step in part one was to submit the report into Turnitin.com.

                The second part of the Turnitin assignment was very similar to the first part. The only big difference was that this time instead of copying and pasting the information gathered from the given websites, we had to actually type it in our own words; the way it should properly be written instead of plagiarizing. When finished answering the questions we had to again submit the report into Turnitin.com and to receive an acceptable number of plagiarism. The first part should have been scored very high as far as plagiarism while the second should have been scored very low. This assignment corresponds with the 4th portion of the NETS-T standard. I know that if I am going to be teacher in middle or high I will use Turnitin often to check for plagiarism and help prepare my students for their future in school.   


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