One of the major issues that I can isolate within a middle school setting when it comes to education is the misuse of websites, pictures, quotes, etc... Many times students are not properly trained on what needs to be cites and what are the basic rules when it comes to using others work. As an English teacher we discuss MLA, APA, and various other formats and every rule associated with that. When we do research and construct research papers we go over how to effectively give credit. I feel that education as a whole is getting very lax with these issues. Whether it is a teacher making a class set of a story, printing off a workbook or copying, allowing students to use images and text that does not belong to them without any reprimand. On the students end they fail to see and realize the enormity of what they are doing. I would argue that many students do this because they know they will not get into any trouble and they will be given the chance to "redo" the assignment. When I reflect on my class before we start researching I give them a pretest that will not affect their overall grade but will tell me what they know about copyright and issues surrounding it. This gives me an opportunity to see where the students understanding is and where it needs to be. Properly citing material and giving credit to other people's work and ideas is a fundamental principle within my class and the key is setting the tone early.
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One of the major issues that I can isolate within a middle school setting when it comes to education is the misuse of websites, pictures, quotes, etc... Many times students are not properly trained on what needs to be cites and what are the basic rules when it comes to using others work. As an English teacher we discuss MLA, APA, and various other formats and every rule associated with that. When we do research and construct research papers we go over how to effectively give credit. I feel that education as a whole is getting very lax with these issues. Whether it is a teacher making a class set of a story, printing off a workbook or copying, allowing students to use images and text that does not belong to them without any reprimand. On the students end they fail to see and realize the enormity of what they are doing. I would argue that many students do this because they know they will not get into any trouble and they will be given the chance to "redo" the assignment. When I reflect on my class before we start researching I give them a pretest that will not affect their overall grade but will tell me what they know about copyright and issues surrounding it. This gives me an opportunity to see where the students understanding is and where it needs to be. Properly citing material and giving credit to other people's work and ideas is a fundamental principle within my class and the key is setting the tone early.