I was interested to hear the news item on Radio 4 this morning about the growing problem of plagiarism in schools. It echoed the findings of my own survey, in which teachers also expressed concern about students copying and pasting from the Internet. However, many of them also said that they rely on the Internet as an information source for students, so it’s a difficult situation. Nearly all the school students I spoke to identified wikipedia as their main information source and very few had any understanding of the issues surrounding quality. I’m hoping that one of the outcomes of my project will be some practical ways in which my library can work more closely with local schools to help with this issue.
Me at Yosemite