Why I will never pursue cheating again
The post is temporarily removed. I will restore it after ensuring that there are no legal liabilities for myself or my employer.
Until then, you can read my commentary in my new blog post: A tale about parking.
The discussion on Hacker News was good as well. Also see the response that I posted at the Business Insider website and the coverage at Inside Higher Education.
Do we know that the algorithms for turnitin.com are correct? Because even in a lie detector test, we know that the results are inconclusive.
ReplyDeleteWhat was your motivation for speaking to the media about this? I hope it doesn't stem from your own sense of self righteousness.
Besides you teach infotech -- you should understand the implications of crowd sourcing, the wikis of the world, and having information at a click of a button. It's not whether you can recite the material or not, but rather about how quickly and resourcefully you can find the information.
I can inspect the results of Turnitin. For example, an assignment can be marked as suspect because it replicates a significant part of the homework description. Rest assured that I check the results of Turnitin and I also pursued the cases with each student individually. Every single student admitted that they cheated.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this were assignments about preparing a report for a new technology and doing an industry analysis. Copy and paste, sorry, it is not an option. Especially from assignments of your classmates.
Regarding your final attitude on "resourcefully finding information": You are wrong. Having to find information for everything is going to put you in the same level as every single other person out there that can also "resourcefully find information". You need to digest the material and be able to synthesize and create further, if you want to separate yourself from the pack. Copy & paste does not contribute towards understanding the material. Even re-typing is going to be better than copy & paste.
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