Week 3/4 September 12/19, 2017 Hurricane
When it comes to Microsoft Word I've used it for pretty much everything school related. Every paper is written and edited on Word. Even though I have a Mac I've still downloaded MS Word just in case I have to email a document as an attachment to a teacher, professor or coworker on the off chance Pages doesn't work on their end. Most professors use Word for their syllabus and hand outs for the class. At this point it's a part of every day life for me.
Growing up and still to this day teachers and professors drill into you to cite everything you use, even to go as far in saying there's no such thing as too much citing. You always want to give credit for any work(s) you use for fear of any academic punishment like suspension or automatic "F". Every teacher and professor has always given the class websites we can use to properly cite our work. Most if not all college libraries offer workshops that you can submit your paper to and receive feed back on the document. Any time I have had to use pictures, news clips and songs in PowerPoint I've given credit either as a footnote or at the last slide. Even the old MySpace days when you would post music to your page you had to give credit to the artist and state you weren't stealing their work.
My book hasn't come in yet it's been delayed from the hurricane so unfortunately I can't answer/reply to the last paragraph.
***Update***
I finally received my book! YAY!!!
I feel 3 issues I would easily face in my classroom would be academic dishonesty, bullying and freedom of speech. No matter the age we have to teach our students that not giving credit where credit is due. Students don't tend to see the connection between not or "forgetting" to cite sources and stealing. Depending on my grade level you can easily give a relatable scenario, off the top of my head if you're teaching grade school you would have all the kids sit in a circle and at the beginning of the circle give that student a statement to whisper to the next and keep passing it around until it gets back to the first student. You would reveal to your students what the original statement was and what the final one became. Most often the statements would be crazy different. You would point out that because theses students didn't cite their source or they didn't copy the statement perfectly they learned the wrong phrase and now have false information.
On the subject of bullying I've seen this multiple times over social media, parents will bring their child to the kitchen table with a plate and a tube of toothpaste. They ask their child to squeeze the tooth paste out on to the plate and once the child is done they ask the child to put the toothpaste back. Which the children realize quickly that they cannot and often become very upset. The message is that once you speak hurtful, mean and discriminating words they cannot be taken back. Your words are permanent and will be remembered by the person they were directed at. I personally would do this exercise for my students it covers basically every way children learn visually, verbally, physically and socially. They see the toothpaste come out, they see it is impossible to put it back, they can physically squeeze the toothpaste and they do this all together and I'd like to think they would look around the class and understand what they say can affect all of them.
Freedom of speech would piggie back off of bullying that you have the freedom to say whatever crosses your mind but there are consequences for them, good and bad consequences.
Growing up and still to this day teachers and professors drill into you to cite everything you use, even to go as far in saying there's no such thing as too much citing. You always want to give credit for any work(s) you use for fear of any academic punishment like suspension or automatic "F". Every teacher and professor has always given the class websites we can use to properly cite our work. Most if not all college libraries offer workshops that you can submit your paper to and receive feed back on the document. Any time I have had to use pictures, news clips and songs in PowerPoint I've given credit either as a footnote or at the last slide. Even the old MySpace days when you would post music to your page you had to give credit to the artist and state you weren't stealing their work.
My book hasn't come in yet it's been delayed from the hurricane so unfortunately I can't answer/reply to the last paragraph.
***Update***
I finally received my book! YAY!!!
I feel 3 issues I would easily face in my classroom would be academic dishonesty, bullying and freedom of speech. No matter the age we have to teach our students that not giving credit where credit is due. Students don't tend to see the connection between not or "forgetting" to cite sources and stealing. Depending on my grade level you can easily give a relatable scenario, off the top of my head if you're teaching grade school you would have all the kids sit in a circle and at the beginning of the circle give that student a statement to whisper to the next and keep passing it around until it gets back to the first student. You would reveal to your students what the original statement was and what the final one became. Most often the statements would be crazy different. You would point out that because theses students didn't cite their source or they didn't copy the statement perfectly they learned the wrong phrase and now have false information.
On the subject of bullying I've seen this multiple times over social media, parents will bring their child to the kitchen table with a plate and a tube of toothpaste. They ask their child to squeeze the tooth paste out on to the plate and once the child is done they ask the child to put the toothpaste back. Which the children realize quickly that they cannot and often become very upset. The message is that once you speak hurtful, mean and discriminating words they cannot be taken back. Your words are permanent and will be remembered by the person they were directed at. I personally would do this exercise for my students it covers basically every way children learn visually, verbally, physically and socially. They see the toothpaste come out, they see it is impossible to put it back, they can physically squeeze the toothpaste and they do this all together and I'd like to think they would look around the class and understand what they say can affect all of them.
Freedom of speech would piggie back off of bullying that you have the freedom to say whatever crosses your mind but there are consequences for them, good and bad consequences.
I enjoyed your examples of how you might specifically deal with the issues you. Using the game of telephone to illustrate one of the problems with poor or no citation of sources to young children. Creative!
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