Issues of plagiarism and ethical values
in relation to digitally published material are high on the
agenda in all schools.
All Australian schools are working towards The National Goals
for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century agreed to by the
State education ministers in Adelaide in 1999.
Goal 1.3 states that when students leave schools they should:
| have the capacity to exercise judgment
and responsibility in matters of morality, ethics and
social justice, . . . and to accept responsibility for
their own actions. |
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The Internet and the wide array
of digital resources that can be easily copied and pasted provide
teachers with an ideal opportunity to develop this capacity
when students undertake research using other people's work and
create intellectual property of their own based on this research.
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