Project: Plagiarism in schools.

Problem Description

One of the biggest problems nowadays in any level or class of academic education is the conflict of students to learn by doing their homework. Any work assigned is hard to be realized by the student, so they recur to the easiest way of fulfill the work given; plagiarism.

Fucaloro, L., Russikoff, K., Salkauskiene, D., (2003). Define Plagiarism as a dynamic and multi-layered phenomenon and needs to be understood in relation to a specific context of academic conventions and environment.

Introduction

Plagiarism means taking the words and thoughts of others, and using them as if were yours without giving any credit to the author.

Plagiarism can be a headache for teachers, but also for the student himself, because not fulfilling out with the work given (that it’s supposed given to keep the learning process going) the student is learning nothing, homework must be made by conscious, so it reflects the learning process and build up of knowledge implemented in class.

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)

ICTs are presented nowadays in our daily lifes, so we can fortunately use them in a good way for helping to face this problem called Plagiarism, with softwares we can find for free on Internet, like ‘Plagiarism Checker X’.

Contextualization

—Mexico

This phenome is actually very used in Mexico in any level of schools. A reason can be because most of the teachers do not take the time to really check students’ homeworks, or analyze them.

—United States:

Maurer H., Kappe F., Zaka B. (2006) A survey released in 2003 reports 38% of students involved in online plagiarism. The new generation is more aware of technology than ever before.

Purpose

The main purpose of this software is that teachers can check homeworks that are supposed made by the students so they can know if students are actually learning and doing the activities by themselves, being the result of achieving the goal of any class; learn.

Objective

Realize if students work is original.

Kinds of plagiarism

—- Copy and paste: copying word to word textual contents.

- Idea plagiarism: using similar concept or opinion which is not common knowledge

-—Paraphrasing: changing grammar, similar meaning words

—- Artistic plagiarism: presenting someone else’s work using different media

- —Code plagiarism: using program code, algorithms, classes, or functions without permission or reference. 

—- Misinformation of references: adding references to incorrect or non-existing original sources. 

—- Translated plagiarism: cross language content translation and use without reference to original work.

Plagiarism Checker X

Online Plagiarism

Side by Side Comparison

 

Advantages

- Develop of students’ habits to realize their homeworks.

- Teachers can now quickly take care of every student’s homework, in an easy way.

—- Parents and the institution itself can be noticed about plagiarism.

—- The authenticity of homeworks is reliable.

—- Teachers can recognize and focus in students that need more attention than others.

- Teachers can improve their skills to teach in relation to the results of their students’ abilities.

Disadvantages

- —Lots of students warmed because of plagiarism. 

—- Pressure and stress to students. 

—- Not all features in this software are free. 

—- Necessarily use of Internet to analyze texts in the ‘Online Plagiarism’ tool. 

Conclusion

—Plagiarism can be actually faced thanks to the technologies we have nowadays. It is now easier for a teacher to realize if a student just copied and pasted information. This software can analyze through Internet and tell you if a homework is plagiarized and from where, making more easy the teachers’ work and also more reliable.

LINK TO DOWNLOAD:

http://plagiarism-checker-x.softonic.com/

Use of ICT on Languages 4

Technology and Jobs: Should Workers Worry? 

We can now just think in that utopic land where robots make everything for us in a new society (which produces these robots) but, is this good? Of course robots aren't in all jobs nowadays, but how would technologies affect jobs (and persons) if this become real? If this actually happens in the future, there wouldn't be any work for people anymore, people would be replaced for technology.



In the American Economy there are still lots of jobs, robots hasn't already arrived, so we shouldn't blame them yet. Every cybernetic machine requires human control.

Technology was supposed made to be a friendly tool to human to make the human brain more valuable and not necessarily obsolete.



Which jobs should be worried about robots?

Maybe not now but perhaps in the next 15-20 years these jobs can be affected by technology:

- At&t

- Lawyers

- Costumer Sumer space

- Transactional space (operators, everyone who deals with transactions)

- Factory workers

- Marketing / advertisements space



Jobs like nurses, waiters cashiers, secretaries, truck drivers, teachers, etc. Have always existed and are made by human, but can be actually be affected in the future.



This technology increasing can affect much of the jobs we have nowadays rather than help, I mean people who produce them. Economy of the society can grow up, but jobs will decrease for people, which is something we should think again, do we really want everything to be made just by robots? The answer will be given in the next years, I don’t think it can happen that way, but it will, maybe less maybe more, but hopefully there will still be jobs for people, and society will continue working as we know it.

Link for the debate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQW2mxDf1n0