turnitin and plagirism

Turnitin is an internet-based plagiarism-prevention website that was originally made in 1997 and hast been very popular ever since.  Typically, high schools and most universities buy licenses to submit writings to the Turnitin website, which checks the documents for unoriginal content. This means that when students upload their work to the website it checks to see if the student used their original work. It shows that they made up all the information by themselves and did not copy and paste from the internet or a book. The results can be used to identify similarities to existing sources or can be used in formative writing to help students learn how to avoid plagiarism and improve their writing. Students may be required by schools to submit essays to Turnitin, as a discouragement to plagiarism. Plagiarism is a huge problem in today’s educational world. It is nothing to play around with because a lot of universities and colleges will kick you out of school for copying someone else’s work. Turnitin is a great computer resource that knocks even the idea of plagiarism out. Being a new upcoming teacher, the last thing I want to worry about is making sure my students aren’t copying each other, therefore I will definitely use turnitin to my advantage! To find out more about Turnitin Company, visit the turnitin.com website and it has more explanations and tutorials on turnitin.
 

Concept mapping reflection

As most of us know, we all learn differently. Some of us are visual and some of us can just learn by hearing. It is very important for us, as teachers, to remember that not everyone is the same. A great example we are learning about in class is concept maps. It is where you have one main topic. Then from that you surround it with different ideas about the main topic. This is a great tool for brainstorming because any age child can do it. Technology has made it to where we can do concept mapping with a pen and paper, but also with computer software.
One of the most popular visual aids for concept mapping is called Inspiration. It is a great program for both the students and the teacher. It gives a step by step guide on opening the program, saving a file on Inspiration, and transferring a file in Inspiration. According to the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers, the teacher must be able to apply technology in their classrooms. These teachers are able to use Inspiration in the classroom and its easy and accessible. Common Core standards also implement technology into lessons, so it is very important that teachers take advantage of the different kinds of computer programs.