Ethical Uses of Technology (Turnitin Assignment)

My First Turnitin Assignment Submission Percentage:

For the first submission, we had to go to a couple of websites and find the answers to the teachers questions. She wanted us to copy and paste the answer straight from the websites, so we could see what it looks like and what percentage to look for when a student plagiarizes. I received an 88% on my first submission.

My Second Turnitin Assignment Submission Percentage:

For the second submission, we had to go to a couple of websites and find the answers to the teachers questions. She wanted us to  paraphrase and use our own words to answer the question she wanted us to answer. She wanted us to see what it looks like and what percentage to look for when a student does not plagiarize or only has a little bit of plagiarism . I received an 0% on my second submission. 

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Turnitin is a great way for teachers to see if their students are plagiarizing their papers or not. All teachers have to do for their students to turn in an assignment to Turnitin is make an assignment upload window to their class website. After the students write their papers, all they have to do is go to their class website and go click on the Turnitin assignment upload box the teacher has setup. From there, the students follow the directions to turn in their assignment and then submit it. When the students submit their assignment, it is sent to their teacher and the teacher can see how much plagiarism is in their paper or if there is not any plagiarism at all. The students can also see what percentage of their paper is plagiarized. If their paper is twenty-five percent or less, they do not have too much plagiarism in their paper. The reason twenty-five percent or less is good is because Turnitin picks up any common words or sayings used and count them as plagiarism. Turnitin also take direct quotes as plagiarism if the student did not put parenthesis around the quote in their paper. If the student’s paper says they have ninety percent or more plagiarism, the student has plagiarized their whole paper.  After the teacher gets the students percentage for their paper, no matter what the percentage is, he or she should look over the student’s paper where they say there is plagiarism and make sure that it is really plagiarism because it may not be.  I think Turnitin is a great website for teachers to use to give them an idea if their students plagiarized their paper or not. Turnitin is not hard to do at all, the teacher just has to set it up, and the students just have to turn their papers in. I think every teacher should look into using Turnitin when they assign papers to their students. The two NETS-T Standards that I feel this assignment falls under is " Model Digital Age Work and Learning" and "Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility". I think this assignment falls under this standard because in this assignment I had to copy and paste a paper and then type up another paper on a website and use this current new knowledge of technology to turn in a paper to see how much plagiarism was in my paper. My students would have to be able to locate, analyze, evaluate and use information like I did to turn it in to this new form of technology they have come up with. This assignment also makes the student document any types of references the student uses or the student will be penalized for plagiarism.