Your first assignment is to write a blog post with some reflections about the readings and discussion about academic dishonesty, cheating, plagiarism, etc; that we worked on in class today. This post contains some places to start as you begin to write out your thoughts about information ethics. Use any or all (or none) of these questions/prompts to organize your thoughts.
You should write at least 5 paragraphs.You spent some time writing your reflections before we had the group discussions. What were those reflections? Did you hear ideas brought out by students that read a different article than yours that you hadn’t thought of? Did your understanding of what plagiarism or cheating is change after the discussion? Did hearing those ideas change how you thought about the concepts of academic dishonesty?What are your thoughts about academic dishonesty? What constitutes cheating? Is cheating a “victimless crime”? Are some kinds of cheating OK? Under what circumstances?
All of the articles talk about the idea of integrity and of building student integrity as a solution to the problem of academic dishonesty. What do you think about that idea? What does integrity mean to you in an academic context?
Several of the articles talk about honor codes as a way to discourage cheating. Should Elmhurst College develop an honor code?
Write your response as your first post
in your own blog.This post is due Tuesday September 18th.
