Academic honesty

Academic honesty is such a vague issue. There is no sure fire way to keep students honest about their work. I guess I would just tell my students that I expect them to do there own work when its convenient, but I would understand if they borrow ideas from other students or sources. I mean kids today have such high expectations on them that I think the most important thing is just getting the work done and not necessarily the integrity of their work. That is a lesson that is best learned the hard way. If I always preached and demanded for honesty in everything they did I would just be building a wall of frustration between my students and myself and my classroom would be full of friction and not fun. And if it's not fun no learning will take place.





Just Kidding!

Digital citizenship for teachers

Here is the prezi Jeff and I made for digital citizenship

http://prezi.com/5abzbpzblffb/digital-citizenship-for-teachers/

Digital citizenship for students

Digitital citizenship is basically just online etiquette. It's extremely important for students now a days because there is so much technology used in school. Most students don't even have social etiquette and its even more important to have digital etiquette because online interactions and social networking sites are much less personal and therefore its easier to say inappropriate things. Students interact more on the internet today than they do face to face and its causing kids to have less and less censorship because they can hide behind a computer screen.

Internet site validity

It is important to use valid internet sites because if you don't, you don't know if the information is correct or not.

Here are some humorous bogus sites that I found

http://www.genochoice.com/

http://www.improb.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page