Presented to the MHS PTO.
What compass can we provide our students as they navigate through a digital world that makes it all too easy to copy, paste, and pass off information as their own? You know when I was a kid and wanted to go on a trip I had to pull out the road atlas, now students have one device that provides everything and yet I see my students finding it very difficult to find their way through the intersection of content and question! in fact most students just go dumpster diving and hope they will find the question while trying to discover the answer. Sounds crazy right? Not so. Finding a topic is problematic...staying focused long enough to narrow the topic in a digital environment creates an intersection with no stoplights, no direction, and a feeling of panic just to complete something satisfactory to turn in...so? why not Gps it? (gather, plagiarize, "so what") Just as we need structure to get through a busy intersection, so too do we need structure for developing our questions, seeking our answers and arriving safely with a product we can be proud of to call our own! and our world needs those who will take a risk, be creative, be original, and have a thogut all thier own!
What compass can we provide our students as they navigate through a digital world that makes it all too easy to copy, paste, and pass off information as their own? You know when I was a kid and wanted to go on a trip I had to pull out the road atlas, now students have one device that provides everything and yet I see my students finding it very difficult to find their way through the intersection of content and question! in fact most students just go dumpster diving and hope they will find the question while trying to discover the answer. Sounds crazy right? Not so. Finding a topic is problematic...staying focused long enough to narrow the topic in a digital environment creates an intersection with no stoplights, no direction, and a feeling of panic just to complete something satisfactory to turn in...so? why not Gps it? (gather, plagiarize, "so what") Just as we need structure to get through a busy intersection, so too do we need structure for developing our questions, seeking our answers and arriving safely with a product we can be proud of to call our own! and our world needs those who will take a risk, be creative, be original, and have a thogut all thier own!