Janine’s blog

Just finished reading the March 2006 Leading and Learning with Technology from ISTE. this journal. This article on plagiarism by J V Bolkan explores various tools that can assist in dealing with plagiarism but above all he emphasises the importance of good teaching:

“The final deterrant strategy, solid assessment and good teaching, can’t be over emphasised. If students understand that they will be graded not only on the artifact they produce (the paper) but also on their understanding of the topic expressed in an oral report, or an essay on “the making of my report”, they aren’t as likely tp copy someone else’s work because they are going to have to learn the content anyway”

 http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/LL/Current_Issue/March_2006.htm#features