(Either that or shoot it with really good pesticide. To really get it, you have to dig down to the roots. Snatch the bloom and the leaves off the top and it’ll grow right back. (I have a very long gravel driveway, and we have no shortage of weeds.) Copy/paste cheating is like that weed in your drivewayĮver try to pluck a weed out of your driveway? In short, copy/paste cheating is a hot mess.īut it’s one we have to get to the root of. They often don’t have much evidence (often there isn’t much) and don’t know enough circumstances around the situation to make a fair decision.Īnd when certain teachers turn students in a LOT and others don’t, so many more questions surface about why it’s an issue in some classes and not in other classes. Plus, they’re in a tough spot to deal with copy/paste cheating. School leaders don’t seem to know what to do about the problem either. A simple Google search reveals Grammarly, BibMe, Plagly, Quetext, EduBirdie, Noplag and, of course, the big dog in the fight … TurnItIn. And there are websites that teach kids to avoid TurnItIn detection with special pasting and tricks to replace certain characters.īusinesses are invested heavily in the plagiarism game. It’s just as easy to text or snap a picture with Snapchat of a math assignment and send the answers. Students don’t only get their copy/pasted answers from Google. “It’s out of hand, and we have to stop those kids from copying, from plagiarizing, from Googling the answers.” Teachers air their frustrations about copy/paste cheating all the time. Copy/pasting is the battle, and the classroom is the battlefield The term “kids these days” crept up toward the tip of my tongue.īut instead of complaining about something I couldn’t control (the students), I decided to change something I could control. It would have been easy to rail about those lazy kids. Do students cheat like this in other people’s classes?.School isn’t supposed to be like this, is it?.Why did this assignment turn out so poorly?.Despite the student’s claims that he formatted it that way - on purpose! (?) - he was charged with his first plagiarism violation.Ī zero for the assignment and a reminder not to do it again.Īfterward, I was lost in my own thoughts all day … I turned the egregiously copied paper in to the assistant principal for a plagiarism violation. I looked over the papers and did two things: grumbled about the students being lazy and metaphorically hung my head in shame. The formatting from the webpage was still all over the document when it was turned in. One paper: Egregiously copied and pasted.Verb tenses and words that they hadn’t learned (and likely wouldn’t learn unless they took advanced Spanish in college). (That’s my way of knowing if student work was actually written by students.) A few papers: Pretty clearly written by students.The activity ended up having, let’s say … less than the impact I had desired. In my Spanish 3 class, I had asked them to find some facts about an artist from the Hispanic world and write a paragraph about that person. One that I thought my students would have no trouble completing. To solve the problem, we have to get to the root of it first. It’s so frustrating when students turn in activities that are copy/pasted.
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