tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post1598391414458644634..comments2024-03-20T16:30:09.690-05:00Comments on The Fifth Column: CheatingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-59750131455258587612012-12-02T13:15:54.441-06:002012-12-02T13:15:54.441-06:00+JMJ+
I used to teach in a high school, and was ...+JMJ+ <br /><br />I used to teach in a high school, and was struck by this line: <br /><br /><i>Humanities instructors around me complain about "cheating" on humanities tests, when the students are really just doing what they have been taught is perfectly acceptable on math tests.</i> <br /><br />In that job, my biggest headache was plagiarism: students copying whole chunks of someone else's work from the Internet and passing it off as their own. And the most surreal part was that many of them had no idea that it was wrong. Then I realised that I, too, took a lot of stuff available online for classroom use. Google Images, to take one example, was a favourite teaching tool. And I had never properly credited the original artists or photographers because I thought it was "obvious" that I wasn't trying to claim the images as my own work. Making this connection really changed the way I prepared my lessons. Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-71074461427267049252012-11-14T16:00:57.917-06:002012-11-14T16:00:57.917-06:00Ever heard of a book called "The Glass Ball G...Ever heard of a book called "The Glass Ball Game." I think that Hermann Hesse wrote it, and it describes a totally intricate but useless game--an analogy Hesse intended for academia. www.quodestasedixit.blogspot.comEstasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14218134057991196938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-16010124433226554602012-11-02T12:43:51.549-05:002012-11-02T12:43:51.549-05:00Oh well. Like all things, even contemporary academ...Oh well. Like all things, even contemporary academia will go the way of all flesh. <br /><br />And perhaps sooner than many would like. Flambeauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00133131881423202010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-69551395930688977662012-11-02T11:28:27.579-05:002012-11-02T11:28:27.579-05:00Speaking as a contemporary academic, I can find no...Speaking as a contemporary academic, I can find nothing wrong with anything you say. Steve Kellmeyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509461318016670424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-6917258145414981732012-11-02T09:46:14.725-05:002012-11-02T09:46:14.725-05:00I think contemporary academics are so obsessed wit...I think contemporary academics are so obsessed with "cheating" and "plagiarism" today because they are, by and large, highly-credentialed half-wits who have little actual education and even less capacity for original thought. <br /><br />That's a big part of why I wanted nothing to do with academia when I faced that choice some years ago.<br /><br />Don't misunderstand me. The private sector has its faults, too, including a large body of overly-credentialed half-wits who lack both education and original thought. But I've rarely met anyone in the private sector who was insufferable because of their educational credentials, etc., in the way that academics uniformly are.<br /><br />And braying about "the youth" going to pot because they look stuff up on teh Intarwebz, when that is what we're all required and expected to do in our work life, just points further to the isolation of academics from the reality of the daily grind. Flambeauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00133131881423202010noreply@blogger.com