Students often view the topic of plagiarism as boring or intimidating.
I wanted to spice up my library instruction. So, last week before I taught my students about paraphrasing/summarizing/quoting and citation styles, I showed this video clip from Good Will Hunting. From watching this clip, I was able to get the students to make an emotional connection to plagiarism. We discussed which characters in this clip ended up looking foolish and unoriginal vs. very intelligent and able to integrate their own voice. We know that making emotional connections helps with memorization and information retrieval.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Plagiarism in the movies...
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4 comments:
This would make the topic more interesting for our students. I see a possible best practice presentation in your future...
@John Woods Possibly...
Gosh, if only someone had ingrained in me how to properly quote someone. Then probably I would be able to do it properly. I think you're fantastic for making sure your students are able to quote correctly and give credit when credit is due.
Just stumbled your blog and added it to Viralogy.
Hope you get some good traffic!
- Jun
Jun,
Thanks! I appreciate the add on Viralogy!
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