Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Explaining what information is common knowledge..


I think I'm going to start going more in depth with explaining the concept of what students need to cite and what information is common knowledge. It seems like students really struggle with this. I have a feeling that this academic integrity issue is being overlooked by some of K-12.




For a Humanities class this morning, I gave a general information literacy workshop preparing the students for a research paper that they have to write. I explained with concepts that might interest the students for their Humanities research paper. The students and I discussed why the information on the right column needed to be cited, and I felt like (for one of the first times) it clicked!

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