Journal,+Module+3


 * Prompt: Reflect on what you plan to do to address the equity and ethics issues when applying technologies. **

I started the first semester with an activity about plagiarism that many of my students later told me gave them a good idea of just how much they should be making sure they are avoiding misrepresenting other people's information as their own. However, they said they felt like plagiarism was overstated in many of their classes and that we didn't need to spend an entire class period on it. So, this semester I didn't do the activity and I had my first instance of a mostly plagiarized paper.
 * Description **

 I was disappointed when the student told me she didn't realize that she was plagarizing, and, from the way it played out I believe she didn't know, even though she should have. And, she should have known better because I really should have known from the fact that my students said my previous activity helped them that all of my classes should get the same reminder.
 * Impact **

In my class my students do a lot of self-directed research because they pick their own topics: Sometimes they need to research, sometimes they don't. They almost always do a great job with knowing when they need more information or when they can work from their own experiences, but sometimes they get confused about citations when they look up things like sports stats or other statistics. They don't understand that if there is anything that they didn't know of the top of their head then they need to give credit for where they found the information. Also, I struggle sometimes with knowing if they CAN cite the sports statistics off the top of their head or if I should as them to confirm and then cite the place where they found the information.

I plan to place a more specific focus in my rubrics and projects on citing sources as well as developing a class policy on where and when they need to cite information. Because they are most often speaking their information and don't always turn in a written copy of anything I need to decide a standard format for how I want them to give credit where credit is due. I know this might sound simplistic, but because of the strong tilt towards assessment based on performance I have had to find new ways to represent the objectives that traditional are just turned in with papers.
 * Intent **