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Mother's Day, 2011
Wanna laugh?
I have a student who copied and pasted directly from about.com and turned in a paper that had absolutely nothing to do with the assignment.
So I called him into my office and said "you know how I got all intense with the whole class about plagiarism earlier in the week? What am I going to say about your paper?"
Student's response: "It wasn't good?"
"Well, yes, and it's a big problem that you copied and pasted directly from a website. Do you understand why?"
"No. When I turned that paper in in high school, nobody said anything was wrong with it."
Mother's Day, 2011
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Re: Wanna laugh?
lol oh my...
wtf? how is he going to survive in the real world?
related story - in hs spanish class we were told NOT to use an online translator to write a story about our future plans in spanish. football dude didn't listen and used altavista. turned in his paper. teacher approached football dude and asked him if he spoke french as well as spanish. football dude was completely baffled... turns out he hit FRENCH instead of SPANISH. D'oh!
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Good Grief.
This kid sounds just like my mom. I took pictures of the kids at the beach. Pro looking pics. I gave her copies to hang on her wall. She proceeded to enter them in her county fair and tell everyone she took them. I was piissed. Her reasoning?
I was there when you took them, and I gave birth to you.
blech.
Dealing with people like this make my head hurt.
Wooooow!!! At least if you're going to go the lazy route do it the right way!
When I was in Spanish I used an online translator but I understood the language enough to make some mistakes. I would put in the wrong word (but one that sounded similar) every now and then and mix up feminine and masculine on a couple of things. My Spanish teacher thought I was brilliant and never had a clue.
Good god. Kids will say anything. I'm sure in high school he blamed shiiite on his middle-school teachers. Dumbarse.
I had a rough day with report card grading, so I'm not too happy with the youth of America right now. I think you've shown us Exhibit A why there is room to worry.
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I wish high schools would do a better job teaching about plagiarism so that when they get to us they get the point!
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Um.....I'm not going to start a who's-fault-is-it argument, but I'm pretty sure high schools aren't to blame. (High school English teacher here!)
I blame middle school and elementary school teachers.
Honestly, public education is in the shitttttter because kids aren't coming into KINDERGARTEN with the right skills. By the time they get to you in college, well, good luck with that.
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It's hard to teach kids who think education is a right and not a privilage. I volunteer in K-4 & K-5 classes, and I've seen and heard the best of it. A four year old told the teacher that he doesn't have to know his colors, because she's the one in trouble if he doesn't. Another child's fave phrase was "my mom & dad pay you so you're not my boss". Kids don't come up with all this on their own. A lot of parents out there need to really think about what they are teaching their kids.
I honestly don't even know where I'd start if I were revamping the entire system. I think that's why it's so important to me as an instructor that I look at this crap (seriously!? you thought you could turn in the same paper you turned in when you were in high school and somehow I wouldn't notice that it had nothing to do with the assignment? where is your head?) and see what I can do with it now. We had a long talk about plagiarism, and what he needs to do, and then a discussion of what he needs to do if he wants to pass the class. No idea whether it's going to stick, but I have to console myself by saying that I'm doing what I can to the best of my ability. And then hoping that SOMEHOW it gets through.
And then reminding myself that we're all going to die in 2012 so none of this really matters anyway. Sometimes that's what it takes to get me through
Mother's Day, 2011
Amen to that!
Technically, it is here. But I'd told him I thought he just misunderstood what it meant to cite things before I found out he C&Ped his own high school work. If I'd known that, I'd have gone the full fledged paperwork-to-the-dean's office route when I first found it.
Mother's Day, 2011
This makes me sad. The more I think about it the more I want to scream. We are setting these kids up for failure...the system and the parents. We need to give them all the tools they need to learn and teach them the value of learning.
Maybe I'm in a bad place to read this. I have a very bright little boy who can't learn and I have no skills to help him so he's one of those boys who hates school...and who is bright enough that I could totally see him skating by because he can figure it out.