Module 2: Plagiarism, Fairuse, Digital Citizenship

Confirmation Certificate

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I have studied the pages of the "How to Avoid Plagiarism" tutorial site. After doing so, I have taken the quiz available on the site. I am confident that I know what plagiarism is and how to avoid it, and that I know the policies on plagiarism at Indiana University. If I had questions after finishing the tutorial, this document confirms that I have sought help from my academic advisor and I do now understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. I understand that there will be no acceptable excuse for plagiarism if it is discovered in my work.

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The test was passed on: Thursday, 09th of June 2011, 11:21:12 AM
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Fairuse Quiz

I received a 57%.  What’s the old saying “the more I read the less I know”.  Is that fairuse when you quote things you heard your parents say a 1000 times? J

1.    T X

2.    T

3.    F

4.    T

5.    F X  They assumed the network is closed to the outside so you would retain control but I based my answer on my experiences that depending on where it is stored on the school LAN if students have access they are free to copy and copy they do to be freely distributed everywhere.

6.    T

7.    T X

8.    F X The question just said years instead of specifying the 3 years limit so I said false.  I tend to read into true/false questions just ask my undergraduate Psychology prof.

9.    T

10.  F X

11.  F

12.  T

13.  F

14.  F

15.  F

16.  F X Another one I projected into the question because it said classroom computers plural and it was a single use license. 

17.  T

18.  T X This one surprised me.  So basically, anytime you sing music from an artist where you have written down the words to learn them by listening then sing them for a group of people even if you don’t charge admission, you are violating fairuse. 

19.  T X

20.  T

Digital Citizenship

For 7^th grades the hot topic was Facebook, so my choice was social networking.  My team of five teachers had inundated with requests from our students to be friends when we had repeatedly told them how we felt it was inappropriate to be friends on our personal Facebook pages.  Boundaries and the appropriate behavior were some of the issues we had with establishing with our students this past year so I decided to turn it into a lesson.  With the assistance of my colleagues, spring break was approaching so each of us took a different topic to discuss cyber bullying, sexting, privacy and general appropriate behavior online and offline to discuss in each of our classes.  In my Social Studies classes we created Spring Break Bob & Betty which is an idea borrowed from the Flat Stanley project used in the elementary level. www.flatstanley.com or www.Flatterworld.com .

I setup a Facebook page HHLKEY when our team of students could be friends with any teacher and not have access to our personal page.  The teachers, students and many of the parents loved this idea.  For those students who were not on Facebook and wanted to participate in the project I established a gmail account where they could post their activities to copy to Facebook for them.  They took photos and posted Bob & Betty activities over break.  Many of the teachers from the school also contributed to the page.

Digital Access:  Luckily, I teach in a system that until recently was funded and has a fairly good supply of technology for classroom student use.  Most of the families in the area are also affluent enough to own a lot of personal technology with very exceptions, the students and parents have been leading the way in technology requests.  As the March 16, 2010 article in eSchoolnews Ditital access, collaboration a must for students states, the students with digital access “ take learning into their own hands and use technology to create personalized learning experiences”.  Social networking is such important part of the digital access allowing students to communicate, question, assist, and discuss things in and outside the classroom. 

Digital Commerce:  I would advise them the social networking pages are filled with ads geared to their profiles to be very wary of these because what is offered free or at a very low cost usually has hidden costs.  Also they often are attached with electronic virus, spyware, worms, hidden cookies that can cause harm to your computer or used to get valuable information off your PC.  As for social networking and e-commerce one article the articles like the market seemed to be all over the place from they didn’t work well together to the next hot items but one middle ground was several years old describes TagWorld site as a middle of the road between Craigslist and eBay.  I interested to visit it to find out for myself.

Digital Communication:  As a teacher I remind the students that at times they will have to be able to think independently without the aid of digital communication and most of my students find it so hard to believe the world ever existed prior to the internet and cell phones.  The best article I found was a presentation by  A Lenhart, M Madden, A Smith at isites.harvard.edu  called Teens and Social Media

How Teens communicate

All teens:

• 95% of teens spend time with friends face to face

• 88% of teens talk to their friends on a landline

• 67% of teens talk to their friends on their cell phone

• 65% of teens send email to friends

• 61% send messages to friends through social networking

sites

• 60% of online teens send instant messages to friends

• 58% of teens send text messages to friends

Digital Literacy  At the middle school level it is usually adding to their software knowledge.  The introduction of new programs and higher expectations in their proficiency of the technology they have been introduced to in the intermediate grades.  The article Digital Literacy Is In Crisis by Susan Murphy at www.socialmediatoday.com was written like she had been inside of my head for the last few years.  While she is talking about Canadian school with the exception of a few sentences she could be referring to any school in Indiana when she says, “We are doing a great disservice to our students by continuing to teach them only the how’s. We need to be teaching them the why’s.”

Digital Etiquette:  In my class I used the Spring Break Bob and Betty project to work social and digital etiquette.  The clearest advise came in a blog by Mario Sundar the self-professed how-to guy for market on Linkedln his 10 Commandments of Digital Etiquette included things like be picky about your friends, not everything is post worthy and don’t post pictures of friends they wouldn’t post.

Digital Law:  As a teacher I often remind the students the legality when the trade and copy unlicensed software, videos and music.  Also when they try to login and send messages from each other Facebook accounts which is a common occurrence after arguments in 7^th grade.  www.deborahsoloman.net blogs has an article about How the Digital Law has changed in the Social Media Age.  The main idea of the article is how police are making use of the social media to notify the public on certain situations or to post wanted posters.

Digital Rights & Responsibilities: