Ah, well, an awkward topic indeed to discuss. But something that I occasionally find does happen in class. I try to make up projects that aren't easy to Google, but alas, cheating seems to happen anyways. Whether it's students "helping" each other by copying and pasting their own code, lately I've been finding it more and more important to go ethics and responsibilities, and the value of schooling. I do encourage a level of cooperation in my classes, I like to see students explaining things to each other, and being good citizens and helping out a brother or sister in need! Manitoba has a whole ICT curriculum that is supposed to be taught by all teachers. My informal findings is that very few teachers even know what it is, and if they do, they certainly don't have much time to spend on it. Click the picture to go to the LwICT continuum website If you don't want to go reading a bunch, the continuum stresses the importance of...
-Higher order thinking skills -creativity and thinking -Horribly named "21st century skills" (this would make a great blog post some other time) -Digital citizenship (part of this is ethics and responsibility) -constructivist learning (and gradual release of responsibility) Etc. I do show many of my classes websites like StackOverFlow... and general internet searching skills. Since I think I am leaning towards option 1, and having my kids make YouTube tutorials, it'll be more important that ever that I ensure that I cover ethics and digital citizenship. It's never fun having conversations with students when you find clearly duplicate code, or code they aren't really able to explain. Other times students can explain it just fine, as they've gone and actually done some research or reading on the internet... this is something I encourage and WANT to see. I think the importance of going over ethics cannot be understated. I won't want students to eventually find themselves in some sort of trouble over it, and obviously it's also the wrong thing to do as well. What do you think? Stay curious! Cheers, Matteo
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Dean Vendramin
9/30/2019 10:14:56 pm
Sounds like a familiar struggle. Were the kids overwhelmed or just lazy. It's hard when you see the train wreck about to happen and feels like there is not much you can do Sounds like you have the right approach to ask them to explain it to you. I'm interested in seeing the You Tube videos you are thinking of creating. Thanks for share and keep up the great work
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AuthorMy name is Matteo Di Muro, the original Prairie Boy, and I've been teaching since I was 14. I currently teach mathematics and computer science in Brandon. I try to keep on learning things, and I'm getting onboard with sharing with others, hence this site! Archives
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