Copy- and paste-plagiarism
Technology as a blind alley or a road to better
learning
Lars-Erik Nilsson
Anders Eklöf
Kristianstad University
The recreation of Hamlet
Purpose of paper
We will discuss two different ways of
conceptualizing how students use
technology.
• In the first perspective students are
positioned as cheaters and their use of
technology is seen as an ethical problem
• In the second perspective students are
positioned as learners and cheating is
seen as a pedagogical problem.
Conflicting pictures
Research on cheating
• Student declarations – I cheat
• Epidemic increase
• Mostly different kind of plagiarism
Research on learning
• Culture
• Assignement
• Making sence of technology affordances
Transport and Transform
• A metaphor conceptualizing what is seen
as the problem
Transport-analyse-transform
• A metaphor conceptualising the solution
Teacher reactions to three software
•A work shop
•Focus groups
•Swesum
•Encarta Researcher
•Open Mind
Encarta
Swesum
Excerpt from text generated by
Swesum
“Then as he grew up, he became stern and demanding, like his father. Hitler was born
to Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl and was the fourth child of his father's third marriage"
(Stein 2). Hitler did well in the monastery school and also took part in the boys' choir
(Joakims[AE1] ). "As a young boy Hitler idolized the priests and for two years
seriously considered becoming a priest himself" (Patrons). His father would beat the
children and occasionally Adolf's mother Klara as well (Marrin). Hitler tried to please
his father, but never could. "His father would slap him and beat him with a cane, dog
whip, or belt. Hitler had great fear of his father and hated even to come home.
In Hitler's teen years, he discovered he had great artistic skills. Adolf, he said, must go
to the technical school in Linz and become a civil servant like himself" (Marrin). Alois
Hitler also had an illegitimate son, Alois junior, and a daughter, Angela, with his
second wife. In Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler describes his father as an irascible tyrant,
however there is little indication Alois Hitler treated his son more strictly than was
usual for that time and place.
[AE1]Jag minns inte, är det du som har plockat in referenserna här för att visa
varifrån de kommer eller har programmet gjort det. Om det är du så bör det vara
ganska tydligt att vi har gjort det.
Mindmap
Discussion
Do teachers conceptualize these software
as
• a threat to learning?
• a prompt for a redifinition of copy, original,
own text?
How could the affordances of such software
best be studied?
