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Jill Midolo and Sue Scott, Curriculum
Materials Information Services, Department of Education
and Training, Western Australia
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Over the years, students have variously copied
by hand, cut with scissors and pasted with glue, photocopied
and pasted, and now electronically copied and pasted.
Simultaneously, teacher librarians have explained why it's unethical
and suggested ways teachers could design research assignments
to ensure that students don’t plagiarise.
In this new digital world teacher librarians are still well
placed to help students understand how to use other people's
intellectual property ethically and suggest effective classroom
strategies for teachers.
This presentation has a two-pronged approach:
- How to raise teachers' awareness
of the importance of developing their students' ethical
values when using the Internet for research. When
students understand that they have rights to the way
their own intellectual property is used by others,
the acknowledging of other people's work becomes meaningful
to them.
- How teaching students to copy
and paste with a purpose can develop the habit of
citing sources, asking for copyright permission and
showing how they make use of what they have copied.
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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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Teachers have 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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