Some years ago, during my teaching stint in a Higher Secondary school in Muscat, I had given my techno-savvy students an assignment. Within a week, all the students submitted their assignment of about 15 to 25 pages along with images in colour.
Out of the thirty students, only one student referred to the books in the local library. Almost fifty percent of the assignments were more or less similar and they all had the same visuals. It is not that they copied from their friends, but they visited the same web sites to collect the material. The pathetic part was that, entire texts were simply copied from the sites and pasted as a series of paragraphs. Apparently there was no effort at assimilating or simplifying the material which they had downloaded.
Back in India, some of my friends who are teacher educators tell me that their BEd trainees do the same thing which my Higher Secondary level learners were doing a couple of years ago!
Well dear reader, have you experienced the same?
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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