As
I Posit this Post
As I posit this
post, the Post Intelligencier http://www.seattlepi.com/ must be
positing- 'What the flop?'
I must say, it couldn’t
have happened to a nicer team. HA-HA!
As
some of you know, I’m a huge Packers fan, and no, I did not self asphyxiate-
Alabama style.
Which
of the ISTE Standards for Students is most important for you to address in your
class?
An
issue that is near, and dear, to me is that of citing sources. I teach a
composition course, and last semester asked my students to give me a paper with
3-5 body paragraphs and a minimum of 3 references. What I mostly got were some
awesome results, but what I found were some awesome papers with some shoddy
referencing.
I
found this was not an issue of students not willing
to cite properly, but either, 1) not knowing
how to, or 2) not realizing how
important proper citation really was.
While
I had added a full ‘how to’ cite page attributed to my own dog à
Author(s), "Title," Publication
Issue #, Vol. #, (Date): pgs.
Last, First, "Title of
article" Name of Publication, Issue # vol. # (YEAR): pg. a-b
Aldridge,
Uju, "Chasing Pigeons," A Dog's Life Issue 5, vol. 3, (2014):
14-23
to our university’s online portal, and went over this
in class with the students, I still had a variety of issues related to faulty
citations (or lack thereof).
It’s
a particular issue I plan to address during my spare time prior to our classes,
and hopefully, it will even help me be on time.
Other
than that—
Next
year in---
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I wish that the Korean educational system would teach citing skills at some point during either middle or high school. In a previous stint at a university I was very surprised that most students were starting from scratch is this regard. I had to devote a whole class to this skill and even then it took a lot of time to get them up to speed.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is just the case in Korea. It seems that every school I teach at has this same problem of students not citing work. It should be one of the benchmarks in the curriculum.
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